For this project, we had to pick somewhere we would like to be and Photoshop ourselves into that place. I decided to Photoshop my brother on to Rob Gronkowski. He is a big Patriots fan so I Knew he would enjoy this. I used a picture I had of my brother to Photoshop onto Gronkowski's body. In order to do this, I used the lasso tool to take my brother's head and move it onto Gronkowski's body. When I put his head on the body, the two skin colors didn't match each other so I used the recoloring tool to recolor his face to match the body. I blurred the background and smudged my brother's hair into Gronkowski's hair to make the two blend together. I also brightened the original photo a little bit. This was a fun but stressful project. Photoshop is not the easiest program to work so it was hard to find tools to do exactly what I wanted to do. It helped me to learn how to use the program.
Album Cover Assignment
This is my first album cover assignment. For my song, I chose "Starving" by Hailee Steinfeld. I chose this song because it is my favorite song at the moment. Above are the three progressions of how I changed the background. The first change was adding purple lightning bolts into the background. The next change was adding gray lightning bolts to the background. The third and final change was adding gary smoke into the background and adding a filter onto the picture. The picture I chose made her look fierce so I wanted to make a background that matched the tone of the picture. The font that I chose also matched the tone of the picture. It seems fierce and matches with the lightening bolts int he background. On the lyrics, I made a gray background and added purple font as well as purple smoke. I wanted the lyrics to be ona sheet that was different and matched the background of the cover.
This album cover is on the song "Georgia Lee" by Tom Waits. This song is sad and dreary and is about a girl who runs away from home and is found frozen in the woods. Many of these pictures are actually spoken about in the song. It is very sad and depressing. It is a blues song. To add all the pictures into one document to make a scene, I used the lasso tool. Each picture is in a different layer allowing me to make changes to each picture separately. The crying eye was changed from color to black and white as well as the girls hugging. The background is cloudy because I feel that conveyed the feeling of the song.
T-Shirt Design
For my t-shirt Design, I used my album cover design as inspiration. I changed the color scheme from black, grays and purples to reds. I made a tour name and I put the font in black and I picked a font that I felt described the tone of the image. The font is dark and bold like the picture is. I used a filter on the picture and I also downloaded brushes to use for the designs in red. I named the tour the "Starving Tour" because that is Hailee Seinfeld's hit song right now. This t shirt design is visually attractive. The words are big and easy to read. This t-shirt looks like a typical tour t-shirt. It has the artist's name and the tour name. The colors are very vibrant. To make the design, I used brushes that I had downloaded from brusheezy.com. I made the design in Photoshop and then put it into publisher to add text to it.