Designing Album Artwork in Photoshop
In this series of lessons, we'll focus on designing album artwork in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CS4, InDesign CS4.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons, we'll focus on designing album artwork in Photoshop. We'll begin by learning about two popular packaging designs for CDs. After learning a little about our client, we'll begin designing the front cover of a CD insert in Photoshop. While working on the front cover, we'll learn how we can incorporate various other elements into our design, including a vector logo and textures. Next, we'll move on and begin to create the back cover of our insert, taking into account the lyrics that will appear on top of it. Finally, we'll move over to InDesign to create the layout of our insert. Here we'll learn about several features, including paragraph styles and character styles that will make the process of completing our design more efficient. Software required: Photoshop CS4, InDesign CS4.
Table of contents
- Popular Packaging Styles for CDs 11m
- Front Cover: Document Setup and Logo Placement 10m
- Front Cover: Adding Album Title and a Background Texture 9m
- Front Cover: Beginning to Add Paths to Our Design 9m
- Front Cover: Creating Glowing Linework Using Paths 11m
- Front Cover: Adding Glow to Our Logo and Album Title 9m
- Front Cover: Adding Color to Our Front Cover 11m
- Front Cover: Finishing Touches 10m
- Back Cover: Document Setup and Adjusting Images of the Band 11m
- Back Cover: Creating Watermarks of Our Band Member Images 7m
- Layout: Beginning Our Layout in Indesign 10m
- Layout: Creating Paragraph Styles 8m
- Layout: Mapping Indesign Styles to MS Word Styles 11m
- Layout: Applying Our Character Style 10m
- Back Cover: Planning for Linework on the Back Cover 7m
- Back Cover: Finishing Touches 12m
- Layout: Finishing Our Album Insert Layout 13m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more