Album Cover Art:

You can decide what images YOU think will best describe the music inside. Pick a bunch that you think are close and throw them out there. However, this requires a degree of objectivity and you are up close and personal with these songs. Another approach is to get people to listen to the music and ask them what images it congers up. The group (or sample) should be large enough and varied enough, but within your general target audience for the most part. Whichever image recurs the most is a winner.

I should mention that this is how I was told Nickleback decides on lyrics and they are scorned for it!!
 
Well, let me tell you...the latest work (not complete) has been described as "Bayou Metal" by a few who have heard it...
 
RVA said:
You are way to hard on yourself. I have never met you in person, but my impression of you here is a smart, sensitive and thoughtful person who is very self aware. There are not a lot of people who can lay claim to these admirable attributes. I bet your songs also reflect these attributes.

Live in the present. The rest is a Distant World (see what I did there?).
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Aspberger's Syndrome. Its not easy for normal people to deal with.. but your kindness means a lot...
 
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That's pretty cool, Don.

I think that is more consistent with the rest of the visual.
 
smitty_p said:
That's pretty cool, Don.

I think that is more consistent with the rest of the visual.
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That's what I was trying for. I think the bottom lettering still needs work, but it doesn't want to match the top stuff. Just not sure what yet. It may just be the position.
 
Love the last one. I wish I could remember how to do it in PS, but what if you took the album title and...there's a way in PS to use the text as a mask and the underlying layer to create an embossed effect. The end result is that the text appears as if it's pushing up through the image. Personally, I'd use a different font, too.
 
wax said:
Love the last one. I wish I could remember how to do it in PS, but what if you took the album title and...there's a way in PS to use the text as a mask and the underlying layer to create an embossed effect. The end result is that the text appears as if it's pushing up through the image. Personally, I'd use a different font, too.
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Yes, that is a displacement mask. You use a high contrast image for the mask, and it shifts pixels slightly right or left depending on its local brightness. The result looks like embossing.
 
Raiyn said:
True, but as I've said, it looks like it's intended for the folks who think Enya is hardcore.
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Yes, I get that, but that's what we have. What do you reckon might be done to fix that without totally demolishing the original artwork?
 
DonP said:
Clearly. It's a rocky shoreline and an ocean. Turning that into a bayou is a bit beyond my Photoshop abilities.
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Oh no....I didn't mean that you should change the image...

I am only expressing to you what I have been told about some of my playing.

A good friend, (a producer) told me this, "It sounds like somebody, who grew up on the bayou, suddenly got a Marshall and a Les Paul for Christmas..."
 
Robert Herndon said:
Oh no....I didn't mean that you should change the image...

I am only expressing to you what I have been told about some of my playing.

A good friend, (a producer) told me this, "It sounds like somebody, who grew up on the bayou, suddenly got a Marshall and a Les Paul for Christmas..."
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Ah, right. I was thinking maybe an alligator and an air boat could have gone in there somewhere ;-)
 
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