Thanks to all who took the time to participate in our last 'Poison Pen' challenge. There were some great ideas and images.
This week we have something different, thanks to an idea suggested a couple of weeks ago by @Trevor.Dennis . Growing up, I always liked buying record albums and I loved the cover art that contained the record, sometimes as much, and occasionaly more, than the record itself! There were iconic images such as Hipgnosis' graphical prism on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', or Richard Corben's fantastic graveyard bike on Meatloaf's 'Bat out of Hell', and who can forget Peter Blake and Jann Haworth's cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
So the challenge for this week is to think of an album you liked and come up with your own cover design for it. There is no real starter image but I have attached a simple grey square 2500 x 2500 pixels in sRGB to use as a format.
When you post your response can you add just a few words on what the album is and how you went about it. It may help others see the potential of different approaches, software, and tools to such a challenge.
The “rules”:
- Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
- Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
- The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used.
- There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.
Have fun!
Dave
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Hah! I do believe you have out-done James Dave. When they released their first album (called Black Sabbath) my brothers myself and some freinds played it on my dad's stereo, with the volume on Eleven, and with one of dad's big speakers aimed out of an open window. It was at this precise point! BTW It's the law that you have to listen to this with the volume on full). We wrecked the tweeters in dad's speakers (he was out fishing) and he was not best pleased.
Come to think of it, we lived across the road from a grave yard, so Ozzi's wailing would have been properly spooky. Our house and farm buildings are all gone now, to make way for an extended runway at Southend Airport.
Thanks guys.
I started with an AI generated skull and AI generated irises for the eyes. I added masks and painted out a lot of the generated content so that I could just have the basic shapes blended with the background.After that I added textures using Photoshop's materials panel which I blended with the rest. Once done I started painting and brushing. By co-incidence I could see some basic hand shapes in the texture, a bit like seeing shapes in clouds, which reminded me of the hands in Munch's 'The Scream'. So I emphasised those 'hands' with shadows and highlights and further brush strokes. After a fair bit of brushing, I added the text, in dissolve blend mode, and with an inner shadow.
I also used to listen to albums like this with the volume set to '11'. 🙂 I'm much more restrained these days and after years standing in front of guitar amps my ears aren't what they were either!
Dave
One last go at this. I used Nano Banana to give my Dave Head a Bowie look, but I made the text in Photoshop, and the transitions in Prem Pro. I tried doing it with Photoshop, but the dissolve is time restricted. Then I wondered if the was a morph transition in AE, but this is what they call Mortp in Prem Pro. I actually had a pretty decent morph effect in Deluxe Paint on an Amiga 1000 40 years ago!
The trick (which I think I got from a Jesuz Rameriz video) is to have both heads on the same layer with a background (no transparency). I forget what I used for the prompt, but I used the words 'left' and 'right' rather than describe the two characters. So, something like this, but the first time I tried it did its usual 'too much skin' thing and 'The computer says no.' So I had to remove the neck and shoulders from DB. Then something like 'Place the red hair from the person the right to the person on the left, and also apply the lightning flash and skin tone.
I just tried it again with the above promt. It basically turned our Dave into DB.
This time I tried Flux Kontext and it moved DB to the left and turned the original DB into Sinéad O'Connor. This was all inside Photoshop, and I used Firefly when I first did the transformation.
IO think my crtedits reset yesterday, and I had a tiny go last night, so that 4100 credits is maybe not a bottomless pit.
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