Photoshop Assignment - CD Case Front

Recently we began a Photoshop Assignment involving us making a fictional CD, inside and out.  This is the front cover for my project, the band I'm using is called "The Strikes" possibly related to "The Strokes" (Duh...), and the album is called "Scandal".  I used a sky image for the background and then applied the "neon glow" filter, with a yellow colour.  I then cropped it and inserted the text.  i played with the text to get this result, the two filters used were "sumi-e" and "ink outlines".  This particular album cover is reminescent of the album cover for Royksopp's Melody A.M. a good band and a good album.  The rest of the artwork for the album should follow nicely.

Photoshop Assignment - Text

I really like this one because it has a grunge feel, regardless of what the text itself says and i got to use a spray paint textures pack that I had been waiting to use for a while.






Not only is the simple word "moist" suggestive in the right company, but the effects are nice too, long and drawn out and repetitive but nice nevertheless.

Photoshop Assignment - Images

I chose this one because, everyone loves to see those who are hounded by the liberal media, hounded more.  And really the only person who wouldn't agree with this is maybe Dubyah himself, Dick Cheney but not George Bush Senior.  Thats for sure.








This one I chose because most people at one point had at least heard of everyones favourite Italian Plumber, and his A#$hole cousin Wario.

Website Thing

This is the logo for one of the webpages for my website.  I find that the monochromatic themes or at least a complimentary theme, one that includes greyscale obviously.  The font, and all the labels, are ones that appeal to me.

Website

I liked the dark colour scheme however i would have enjoyed some more macabre colours like red and more of a diverse grayscale.  I also would have enjoyed to have a right navigation bar, had i learned how to put tables next to each other, or learned how to make individual cells in table transparent.  However overall i think the website went fairly well. 

In a website that was mine i would have had obviously more inspiration and would have put more work or thought into the actual content of it.  however the content in this case was not an overly large deal, and was in fact only there to show that i knew how to format the font.  All in all it could have been better in my opinion, but seems to have sufficed as far as criteria goes.

Edits

October 27th 2009

Today we worked on our webpages, including the banners, framework of the website itself.

Websites

Well Designed

1. http://www.samuelljackson.com//


I like this website, not only because it’s Samuel L. Jackson, but also because the grayscale and red theme works almost every time it’s used. And the layout follows most of the general guidelines, like text in the right hand column links are easily accessible, the content of the site is good and the graphics and font compliment it all well.

2. http://tutorialblog.org/

I also like this website because of the subtle colour scheme used. The layout is aesthetically pleasing, the banner at the top with links to twitter and other social networking sites. Then any other links below it as well as the search bar and below that are recent posts. In the right hand column are sponsors, categories and other links.

Totally S****y

3. http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/

This website makes me cry, honestly. As if the content wasn’t bad enough to begin with the background and random crap splattered all over the page, was thoroughly annoying and gave me a migraine in the time it took me to Ctrl + V the URL then close the page. Other than that if you can manage to find the links on the page they don’t seemed to be placed in a very strategic way.

Photos

Today i finished picking my 110 photos for the tourism website i will likely begin next day, however i also had to choose my two favourite photos out of those 110...no easy task but considering what an urbanite i am its likely ill pick some photos from the beijing section, idk check them out below or beside...or something.  These two particularily appeal to me because of the offset of grayscale, the muggy, wet, foggy and almost depressing background, with the bright colour of tailights and assorted mundane colours.  Or at least the one on the right...however i was just told that the one on the right seems to be much more energetic...which i can appreciate, but i just don't want to.

Logo

I really hated all that awful music, except for mine of course.  everything else was fine, i didn't play halo at all...and i started working on a new logo, or different sized logo...