Designing Album Artwork in Photoshop
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this series of lessons, we'll focus on designing album artwork in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CS4, InDesign CS4.
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Course Description
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.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 10s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 10sDesigning Album Artwork in Photoshop- 2h 48m
—Popular Packaging Styles for CDs 10m 36s
—Front Cover: Document Setup and Logo Placement 10m 16s
—Front Cover: Adding Album Title and a Background Texture 8m 33s
—Front Cover: Beginning to Add Paths to Our Design 8m 32s
—Front Cover: Creating Glowing Linework Using Paths 10m 54s
—Front Cover: Adding Glow to Our Logo and Album Title 9m 12s
—Front Cover: Adding Color to Our Front Cover 11m 5s
—Front Cover: Finishing Touches 9m 40s
—Back Cover: Document Setup and Adjusting Images of the Band 11m 17s
—Back Cover: Creating Watermarks of Our Band Member Images 7m 18s
—Layout: Beginning Our Layout in Indesign 10m 22s
—Layout: Creating Paragraph Styles 8m 16s
—Layout: Mapping Indesign Styles to MS Word Styles 10m 44s
—Layout: Applying Our Character Style 9m 55s
—Back Cover: Planning for Linework on the Back Cover 6m 53s
—Back Cover: Finishing Touches 12m 4s
—Layout: Finishing Our Album Insert Layout 12m 48s
