This is the design of my front cover for the bassnectar single "Risington" originally created by massive attack. The skull connotes horror; which the song in itself represents. As the music video also represents the horror genre. The Butterfly wings are just a random decoration to make it appear more eyecatching and different.
What I did first was get two images, one of a skull and one of a butterfly. I then seperated the butterfly wings and put the skull inbetween then. Editing the contrast, levels and brightness so the three main colours were white, black and grey.
I then erased the black around the skull so that the image was of a skull with wings. Finally it looked like the image below.
Even though the newly created image in itself was good it still wasn't quite the type of thing I wanted to use. So using the instructions on "How to create a Typographic Portrait" - http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/make-yourself-an-amazing-typographic-portrait/
I went through a step by step process to create the final design. By creating new layers, selecting similar colours and pasting on the words within that shape I finally made this. I am happy with it however I do not believe it is enough to represent and advertise Bassnectar. As Bassnectars album art is different to this. This is the basic design however so i will still use this idea, only make it different.
The colour is something I definitely need to use because looking at Bassnectars album art it is very colourful and eye catching.
As you can see in the picture I can tweak the image to make different colours appear darker and others faded.
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