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:
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
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
Lesson 1 – plans
Lesson 2 – sourcing images
There's a template to use. At 300 ppi. Prints at the right size.
CD Cover template (300 ppi)
Lesson 3 – working
This is working on stuff.
Lesson 4 – logo
Making a record company logo.
Order of Work – lesson 4 – logo
Vector graphics – theory slides
The Tip – how to centre the circles
Simple record company logo instructions
Complex record company logo BRIEF instructions
Complex record company logo FULL instructions
Lesson 5/6 – back cover & completion
Back cover and completion