More CD Cover Designs...

...a continuation from the previous post...

I ended up deviating from the plan - imagine that - me, deviating from a plan?! Hard to believe, I know, but I did - and enjoyed every minute of it. (Like usual, too!) I still used the random Wikipedia articles for band names and random quotations for the album titles. As I "let the chips fall where they may", some fun combinations grew.

I used several of my own photos from India, as well as an adorable photo of my sister, Heidi, when she was just a small fry. (I would call it a "vintage" photo, but only at the risk of incurring the wrath of an older sister. I think I had better practice my sprinting technique...) Several photos of rust, water ripples, cement, and others that I took last fall were used for textures and "grunging".

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I had fun playing with various effects and layers...
(Remember, you can click on the images for a larger view - get clicking!)

Could Not Resist

A fun challenge was posted by a friend on Facebook today:

1. Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
5. Post it with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.

I thought, "Hey, that sounds like fun - let's see what can happen in a totally random project!"

So here it is - my album cover. 

I grunged the band name, "Gower Report", weathered the photo with a photo of rust that I had shot last fall, and just plain had some fun with the layers. I think I may have to do some more for a portfolio project!