CD Cover - a Photoshop project
Making a CD cover.
Project briefs
Progressively more detailed. I haven't added in details of the band etc... on the last one yet - not sure if I want to or not.
Brief 5 – my final brief
Assets table:
Part A – Black and White
This part might be a lesson, it might be less, it might be more. It will depend on the skills the children come with.
This is about teaching skills, not making the CD cover.
Skills guides:
Images to use:
Shouting man image - right click and save the image
Students image - right click and save the image
And a gallery task to keep adding to:
Gallery task - to keep adding to
Part B – Using Colour
Different ways to use colour effectively. Quite possibly more than one lesson here.
Skills guides:
Colour sliders - Hue and Saturation
Selective colours with ducks - 3 colours
Images to use:
Football badge image use for Hue and Sat
Ferry image use for Hue and Sat
Wind turbines image use for Hue and Sat
Ducks image use for Hue and Sat and Sel colour
Tree on beach use for coloured sky
Students on steps image use for colour filters
A fill-in task taking one image and showing how it's developed.
Part C – More Colour - Selective colour and Overlays
The colour stuff may be two lessons. I added these skills in to do something a bit different in the second one.
Skills guides:
Images to use:
Head image – image by Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas from Pexels used with the Pexels license (May 2022 – close to open source)
Rainbow flag image – image by Sharon McCutcheon from Unsplash used with the Unsplash license (May 2022 – close to open source)
Part D – Combining Images
Creating images made up of more than one image. This still needs some thinking about.
Skills guides:
Images to use:
There are some other skills on the More Photoshop Skills page.
Part E – Combine Skills
A challenge.
Images to use:
Space background image – image by Aldebaran S from Unsplash used with the Unsplash license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Flying saucer image 1 – image by Roses_Street from Pixabay used with the Pixabay license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Flying saucer image 2 – image by Peter-Lomas from Pixabay used with the Pixabay license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Astronaut image 1 – image by Brian McGowan from Unsplash used with the Unsplash license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Astronaut image 2 – image by Niketh Vellanki from Unsplash used with the Unsplash license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Spaceship image – image by Jeremy Straub from Unsplash used with the Unsplash license (May 2023 – close to open source)
Earth image – image taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 and published by NASA. Public domain. This version downloaded from Wikimedia Commons
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Saturn image – image taken as part of the Cassini mission to Saturn in 2008 and published by NASA. Public domain. This version downloaded from Wikimedia Commons
Making the CD Cover
There's a template to use. At 300 ppi. Prints at the right size.
CD Cover template (300 ppi)
Make sure the assets table is downloaded as well.
Back of CD Covers (2023 version)
Planning document (2023 version)
CD Covers - back (Peat and Diesel)