Pete's task

Our media task this week was to complete a task Pete had put on his blog about generating your own album cover:

I was a bit unsure about this after I read that you had to use whatever random pages were that the websites threw at you! However I have really enjoyed completing this task and even ended up making more than one album cover. I was quite confident when using photoshop and photography is one of my chosen A-Level subjects and we are always required to use this program. I have made a sort of step by step guide of how I completed each stage:

My first randomly generated 'band name'

The 'album title'

The 'album art'

This was my first finishing product!

After the simplicity of making the first album cover I then decided to go ahead and make a second one, print screening it as I was going so that I could show you what I did.

1) Firstly, I went onto a conversion site that changed cm to pixels. I knew that the dimensions of an album cover were 12cm x 12cm so this is the measurement I converted

2) Then I created a new canvas size that I could drag the album art image onto

3) This is now the size of the canvas 

4) Then I opened up the image I wanted to use for the album art and selected the whole image with the 'rectangular marquee tool'

5) Following this I used the 'move tool' to drag the image onto the canvas

6) This is now the finished image on the canvas! All that's left to do is add in the text, to do this you select the 'horizontal type tool'

Here are the randomly selected components of my album cover:

The random image on Flickr

The random page on Wikipedia

The random quote

The second album cover