Album cover editing and costruction

-JPG or GIF
-Perfect square
-At least 1600 x 1600 pixels in size
-Best quality RGB Color Mode (this includes black and white images)
-If you’re distributing your music to the Amazon On Demand store (for printing physical CDs), you need a resolution of 300 DPI.

DON't -email addresses, URLS/websites, contact info (this includes Twitter handles), pricing,
-stickers from your artwork from a scanned copy of physical CD
-something that suggests format of the release “CD, DVD, Digital Exclusive, disc”
-cut off text or images
-an image that’s compressed into one corner with white space
-names of digital stores or their logos
-words that express temporality, like “new”, “latest single”, “limited edition” or “exclusive

http://www.tunecore.com/blog/2012/12/3-things-you-need-to-know-about-cover-art.html

The website above has helped me to ensure features and rules are included within my media products.

The Front cover of the album did not require a lot of editing. At very first I have increased the contrast by choosing adjustment - levels and I have increased it by 25 percent which made the background totally black. After that I have set the canvas size to create a perfect square by clicking on the image options and overwriting the pixel numbers. After that I have sharpened the image by clicking on filter-sharpen -unsharpen mask, and I have increased it with 10-15 percent. At very last I have added the name of the album, parental advisory logo and the name of the artist.





In Able to edit my CD cover I had to research tutorials on YouTube. I have managed to find one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jXFUaEMKs which allowed mo to set up certain measurements for my media product

After I have set the pixel measurements I have added a photograph that I have edited earlier on of smoke, and added it onto my cd cover, then created a yellow layer that I have applied to the smoke by pressing ALT down on the keypad and then left clicking on to my smoke layer.  Which gave it the gold effect. At very last I only needed to add the writings.


The back cover did not require me to edit any photographs, I simply typed up the name of the songs with the artist, that were featuring and added the record label logos and a barcode



The insert however required me to edit the photograph I have taken of the gold chain. I have done this by increasing the contrast , then horizontally reflected it and decreased the opacity to get a nice and sophisticated reflection