Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’
CD cover for The Ebbs (UK) – Russian Skidoo
The song ‘Russian Skidoo’ has been recorded since summer 2005, now I’ve only just got around to making the CD cover for it. I drew all the trees and snow textures on a background layer in Illustrator. Also in separate layers I drew the guy and the skidoo. That look a while, balancing the amount of detail to be sketched with what I wanted the finished article to be like.
Illustrating the shapes of the skidoo was no problem but it took three revisions to draw the helmet! The picture I was looking at had a guy with lots and lots of stickers on the helmet and I got too involved working close up and made something far too detailed, twice. This picture is of a guy speeding through the night in a snow storm so it’s not necessary at all to have that detail. Then when I finished I fired up Photoshop and used a combination of the motion blur and the wind tools. The snow wasn’t so tricky, inserting a new layer in Photoshop
The Ebbs (UK) - Russian Skidoo
I’m quite happy with the result, from the ingredients I started with. If I were to do it again I would focus on a detail of the skidoo, coming almost straight towards the viewer, perhaps looking like it’s about to run into the camera. Could do that for the back cover though… If it’s better it can be swapped with the front image! Sound clip here; The Ebbs (UK) – Russian Skidoo.
Cheers, Mark
Photoshop disasters
If you work in the design and print industry you might have seen some photoshop disasters that got past the graphic artists, the account managers, the proof readers, customer checking and into print. Some of these disasters are by HUGE industry names such as Disney, Dior and CBS. There are many screamingly obvious errors in what should be big budget ads produced by teams of highly paid art staff, some are really shocking.
Also a non-photoshop disaster recently in the news, that I enjoyed, was the newspaper that couldn’t spell it’s own name (on the front page masthead!).