Mocks of album

Measurements of CD cover: 

For Photoshop

Front cover & Back Cover:
139mm x 125mm

Spine:
6.5mm x 125.5mm

How I made my Album Cover:

First, I customized the size of the page so that the width was longer than the height, in order to mimic the actual measurements of a album cover. Then I split the page in half and drew a black line down the center, to imitate the spinal cord of a album. After picking the image i wanted for the front album cover I placed the picture onto the left-hand side, also I did this with the right hand side.

  

Font:

I spent time looking at the different fonts to see which one suited the theme and genre of Rap, which is bold and straight. i wanted to have bigger than the other in two seperate different fonts.

Why I picked the images i did: 

Framing:

Representation of star:

How I tried to attract my audience:

Effects:

I spent time toying with the fonts. I wanted to settle for one that helped connote the genre and fit inline with the style of the cover and song name.

I also googled 'what type of fonts rap CD's and posters used', so that it would appear more realistic.

I finally settled for 'merky records'.

 Here I added the 'Parental advisory, explicit content' logo, as that's what CD covers tend to include, as a warning to younger viewers of some of the themes it contains.

Font

why I picked the images i did: 

Framing:

representation of star:

 How I tried to attract my audience:

Effects:

Font

why I picked the images i did: 

Framing:

representation of star:

 How I tried to attract my audience:

Effects: