Creative Album Cover Design In Photoshop

Creative Album Cover Design In Photoshop – In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a retro 70’s album cover! For our album cover, we use Aary’s The Beardy font, just one of several beautiful fonts you’ll find in the Amazing Designer Collection. Along with large fonts, you’ll find a variety of brushes, textures, font collections, and watercolor collections from the best designers in the industry today. If you’re ready for a blast, fire up Photoshop and let’s get started!

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Creative Album Cover Design In Photoshop

Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new document 7.5 inches wide and ‘7.5’ high with RGB color mode and 300 ppi resolution. In a minute, let’s name our file – here I’ll call mine “love-and-funk-album-design”, but you can call it anything you like. After installation, click the “Create” button at the bottom right of the dialog box to create a document.

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You now have one “background” layer with a small lock icon in the layers palette. Next, click the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select Solid Color from the menu that appears.

Enter the hex value ‘#060D10’ for the fill color and press ‘Return’ on your keyboard or press ‘OK’ to continue.

After adding the adjustment layer, we discard the original “background” layer because we don’t need it.

Go to the folder or location where you downloaded the lead song image from Unsplash. After uploading the image, select the “Place” button in the lower right corner to insert the document.

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After downloading the image, hold Alt/Option+Shift to resize it by dragging each rectangle, then place it on the left side of the canvas as shown here:

Once you’ve sized and positioned the singer image, select the Adjustments icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and choose Black & White… from the menu.

Go back to the adjustment layer icon and this time select “Gradient Map…” from the menu to add it to the top of the layers.

When the editor appears, click the lower left square and click the Color swatch to change the primary color. Now you should see “Color Picker” enter the hex value “#141D35” and click “OK”.

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Now click on the small square at the bottom right of the Gradient Editor and click on the color palette again. This time enter the hexadecimal value ’00FFD8′ and press ‘OK’ or ‘Back’ on your keyboard to apply the changes and close the sequence editor.

Go back to the Layers adjustment icon and add another “Black and White…” and place it on top of the stack.

Select the top layer in the Layers palette, hold down the Shift key, then select the bottom layer “Fill Color 1” to select all layers together.

With all layers still selected, press Command/Ctrl+G to enter the folder, then double-click the “Group 1” text and rename the folder “MAIN IMAGE” as shown in the image below:

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Next we need to download some free textures. Get the first GraphicsFuel pack and then the second Graphic Burger texture pack here so we have some nice dust and scratch textures. After downloading both packages, go to the file menu and select “Encrypted Registration…” as shown below:

Go to the GraphicsFuel texture pack and select the first texture – ‘overlay-texture1.jpg’, then select ‘Place’ in the bottom right corner to import the text into your document.

Hold down Alt/Option+Shift and scale the center until it fills the entire canvas, then press Undo to apply the change.

Change the text blending mode from “Normal” to “Screen” and press “5” on your keyboard to lower the opacity to “50%”.

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With the texture layer selected, hold down Alt/Option and click the Layers icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Here, select “Levels…” from the menu.

When it brings up the New Layer dialog box, check the Use layer before clipping mask option and click OK to continue.

In the Properties panel, move the left slider towards the center until it reads “36” to add some text changes. Apply a clipping mask to the adjustment layer to ensure that the adjustment directly affects the layer below, which is what we want!

This time I’m going to go to Graphic Burger textures and select “02.png” before selecting “Places” in the bottom right corner.

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Once the text has been inserted into your document, scale it by holding down Alt/Option+Shift and dragging each corner of the bounding box until it fills the canvas, then click Undo to apply the change. After that, change the blending mode of the layer to “Screen” to allow the image to be displayed.

With the Smooth Material layer selected on top of the texture, Alt/Option-click the Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette before selecting “Curves…” from the drop-down menu.

When prompted in the next panel, check the option “Use layer before clipping mask” again.

In the Properties section, place the point in the center of the grid and click to move it to the right and down so that output is set to 217 and output is set to 79. .

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Select the topmost Curves Adjustment layer, hold Shift, then select the ‘overlay-texture1’ layer so that both the adjustment layer and the adjustment layer are selected at the same time.

Press Command/Ctrl+G to paste the textures into a new folder, then double-click the file name in the Layers panel and change it to “TEXTURES”. After that, press “4” on your keyboard to reduce the opacity of the folder to “40%” as shown here:

Make sure the ‘TEXTURES’ folder is selected, then click the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select ‘Solid Color…’ from the menu.

Enter the hex value ‘#4094AF’ for the paint color and click Back or OK to continue.

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After adding a solid color to the top of the Layers palette, change the blending mode from Normal to Multiply, then lower the Visibility of the adjustment layer to 60% by pressing the number 6 on the keyboard.

Then download this second free image from Unsplash and save it to your other files. Once you’ve done this, go back to Photoshop and go to the File menu before choosing “Inserted Placement…” from the menu.

Go to the photo of the singer with the smoke background and select the Location button to download it as a smart object.

Once you’ve downloaded your image, zoom it in by holding down Alt/Option+Shift and dragging it, and when you’re happy with the cropped image, cut out the smoky area just before hitting Return to apply the transformation.

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Once you’re happy with the size and position of the smoke, change the layer’s Blending Mode to Exclusion Color as shown below:

With the smoke layer selected, Alt/Option-click the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette before choosing “Layers…” from the menu.

When the menu appears, check the option “Use layer before creating clipping mask” and press “OK” on your keyboard or press “Return” to continue.

In the Properties panel, move the slider to the left of center until it reads “34” as shown here:

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Select the top adjustment layer, then Shift-select the bottom Smart Object layer to merge the two layers.

Press Command/Ctrl+G to drop the layers into a new folder, then double-click the “Group 1” text to name the folder “SMOKE”.

Make sure the “Smoke” layer above is selected, then click the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select “Gradient Map…” from the menu.

In the Properties panel, click the Color bar to bring up a panel where you can change colors.

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Click on the left side of the gradient editor bar and add a light yellow to the colors like ‘#F9D615’.

Click on the bottom of the Gradient editor color bar to add a second color with “34%” “space” and enter the hex value “#FD7C00” to add a nice orange color to the gradient.

Add a third color with ‘Position’ at ‘67%’ and