Album cover

We began working on our album cover by looking through the pictures we had taken of our artist members, and chose the best ones. We decided that we wanted single portraits of all three of them, instead of having a group picture. This meant we could choose images that they looked best in individually, instead of having to find one picture where they all looked really good/focused.

Choosing a portrait for Georgie didn't take long at all; we had taken lots of pictures in the studio and they all looked really good and they were all quite similar so it didn't take much deliberation over which one to choose.

Choosing photos for the boys was a little bit more tricky as we had different angles to choose from. Although the difference in angle wasn't a huge detail, it made a big difference to how to overall image on the album cover would look as a whole.

These were the two best pictures that we took of Eugene. One was completely side profile while the other was at 45 degrees angle. In the end we decided that the picture with Eugene facing more towards the camera was better as it means you could see his face clearer, we felt like this was important for the artist image as it was their debut album and so we wanted to make all three of their faces visible on the cover.

We did the same thing with Gavin; and these were the two best photos we took of him. We wanted all three of them to wear plain white t shirts so that it would be kept very simplistic against a plain white background. Having them all wear plain white t shirts meant that it would look much more effective when we overlayed the images of them on top of each other, and wouldn't look so messy. We chose the 90 degree angled portraits so that Georgie wasn't so much of the focal point, and we didn't want to take attention away from the two boys.

We searched through hundreds of different fonts until we found one suitable for our artist. We knew that we wanted to use the powder paint in our logo, so we looked for a style of typography that looked like it could've been written with paint. We found this font and we think it works really well. We used it on our album cover, our website, and on all of our merchandise to achieve a strong and synergistic brand image.

We used clipping masks of the text on photoshop so that we could take layers of images of the powder paint to fill the letters; it gave it the effect that it was written with powder paint. I think this effect worked really well.

After listening to some audience feedback we decided to change the colours of the paint, we changed them so that it was much more blue, instead of pink.

We overlapped the images of the three of them so they were on top of one another like this, and then we had three images of each portrait and laid them over the top of each other as well. This created this blurry effect. We then added the logo to the top of the page.

We felt like our album cover needed to stand out more and have another dimension to it so we took images of lasers and lights used in DJ set ups and put them over the image, and made them blue and pink in colour to match the colour scheme.

We had several different attempts at this but in the end we decided that it looked better without the lights over the top, so we reverted back to our original image.