CD Cover

In this project, we had to make a CD Cover using a photo editing application such as Photoshop or GIMP. As always, I used GIMP. Anyways in this assignment, we were provided with prompts that we would randomly choose using the internet. We had to go to a random page on Wikipedia and the title of the first article we found was the name of the band/music artist. Then we went to Quotations Page and in there we went to random quotes and the last four words of the last quote on the page was the title of the album we were making the Cover for. Finally we went to Google Images and searched the last four words of the quote and we had choose one out of the first four images we found (using the "labeled for reuse"); this would be our raw image for the cover.

My Prompts:

Title of Album:

                    "Quimby"

Quote:

"I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations"

- Laura Moncur

Raw Image

At first I was confused as to what to do with this image but later I realized that people's high expectations of others sometimes (many times) burdens the person in question [I came to this conclusion with the help of a few movies and books]. Expectations often smother people and their own desires. So in this I realized, low expectations could mean freedom and lightness of mind and freedom is often represented by birds and that was how I was going to use this image. Of course the beach and the sunlight filtering through makes it look genuine and much better so I decided to keep the landscape but change it using some other pictures and a lot of opacity. Also I darkened the sky to a violet blue [yellowish from the sunlit area]

Other Pictures:

Image #1

Image #2

I used Image #2 first for the person standing up and reaching for the heavens and added in the rainbow. After that I found this really cool looking text effect but it was too hard to replicate so I only did part of the process and left it at that.

Final Product

I added in a duller look to make it seem darker because the quote/title does have some negative connotations. And I made it a woman because Elmira [Quimby] is a woman and fights for women's rights and also it was a woman who said the quote. I made the bird behind her look like her wings and I made it pink to allude to the idea that "all women like pink." I made the woman yellow to attract attention to her. Also I think this wasn't really good because the text effect kinda disappeared and it was a bit too dull and the "Quimby" and the women were the same color which kinda alludes to something different.