CD Cover/Insert Design: Advanced Photoshop

CD Cover/Insert Design: Advanced Photoshop

For this assignment I went with the Foo Fighters as my subject for the CD insert. I chose a color scheme that is somewhat in the primary colors. Judging from some of their videos, the Foo Fighters have a playful sense of humor so I felt a fun vibrant scheme would compliment that side of them. The term foo fighter was used in World War II to describe UFOs, so I used that as a theme for the CD's contents.   I put the band on an old lunch box as a nostalgic nod to the Generation X'ers ( of which Dave Grohl and I are from) and  the video game Space Invaders characters (a custom brush I made) floating in the sky behind them. I used two custom brushes  to make the crinkled ground on which the lunch box is displayed and did a perspective transform to add depth to it. I also used one of those brushes to make the composited images on the lunch box look scratched and old. The lunch box on the back panel was actually blue but I adjusted the hue until it matched the red in my Kuler color scheme. For the center panel I chose an old 1950's styled comic that I turned into a black and white and then colorized it using color layers.

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