My Photoshop Album Cover

What a cool exercise. I'm posting it here along with the result so I have it 4ever.

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The 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”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7daysThird picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

The Final Album Cover

I started with:

Band - Gajówka Jastrzębia
End of Quote - "to listen to them"
Source photo -

First I enlarged it because I didn't want to make something I couldn't really play with and see.

Then I added a text layer for the Album name. I did a separate text layer for the Band name. This allowed me to move them around separately once I had each piece looking the way I wanted.


I chose the zoom lens flare and lowered the brightness. (I forget the exact details and I destroyed my "working image" -- UGH I tend to do that and it's not a good idea).


I love the sketch filters in Photoshop. I ended up with the "water paper" filter because it fostered the kind of feeling I wanted for the album.


Finally I added the "diffuse glow" filter (under Distort). This brought the album cover to it's final state except that I added a border so the final would show up better.