Sig/Wallpaper Mixture

[goliathfell]

CnC is very much appreciated. These designs are for someone's album cover.
I'm not used to working with just text as the main focus, but I'm working on it.

Please give your favorite between the two, Thanks in advance!
(View Image for the exact dimensions, I think it looks better that way...)

[-MM.Kritez]

this needs to be moved into Digital Art.

as for the Covers, they are a bit over contrasting for my taste. aslo a bit to sharpened.

gw kiu

[goliathfell]

this needs to be moved into Digital Art.

as for the Covers, they are a bit over contrasting for my taste. aslo a bit to sharpened.

gw kiu

I'll make sure to post stuff like this in the Digital Art subboard from now on...

The text itself is too sharpened? Or the background is too sharpened?

Thanks kritez for the critique

[-MM.Kritez]

hmmm, i think its more of the bg really, but the text may be aswell.

np

[Xelo]

Agreed with Kritez, also i think the dubble name in the top-one makes it meh. I'd keep the yellow one, but would use blue instead off yellow.

[goliathfell]

Agreed with Kritez, also i think the dubble name in the top-one makes it meh. I'd keep the yellow one, but would use blue instead off yellow.

Oh, thats a good idea, I was told that the artist doesn't really like blue, but who cares, I'll try that out. I'll get rid of the red text. Thanks for the critque Xelo.

[+s9.Oath]

yeah man the bg is over contrasted by alot texts is ok in the 1st but i dont like the 2nd text that much keep workin man

[goliathfell]

yeah man the bg is over contrasted by alot texts is ok in the 1st but i dont like the 2nd text that much keep workin man

Thanks for the encouragement underoath! I'll make sure to not over sharpen from now on, that should also help with the overcontrasting I think. I might also tone it down a bit with the bg. Thanks for your input oath.

[+s9.Oath]

the sharpness has nothing to do with the overcontrasting man the contrast is to do with the colors

[gr4ph1kP4ND4]

... well i can tell you now that this isnt an album cover (sorry D
from what i've learned from doing hand-drawn artwork for people's album covers, the size is about 14.2x12.4 centimeters, with a .7-1cm binding. and then another 14.2x12.4cm square for the back cover. it'll look like this:
----------|--|----------
|back.....|..|....front..|
|cover....|..|...cover...|
----------|--|----------
the space in the middle is sposed to be the edge (just demonstrating cause when i did my first album cover i drew the whole thing... backwards... and a little piece of me died on the inside when i realized that

leave about 1-2 cm's on all edges for cropping

when doing these in photoshop, do it in RGB color (best for printing really) and set @ 300ppi

remember when you're making these, people are either going to be viewing them on a printed piece of paper in a CD cover, or as an icon version in itunes or something like that. make them accordingly. (for instance, certain colors have a weird effect on the comp [could b my eyes] but they wont have that effect on paper)

album covers are usually the first introduction to the type of music you'll be listening to, and thus they should accurately represent the music. metal bands usually have skulls and dead peoples on their album covers, while miley cyrus has hot pink butterflies and ponies flying across a rainbow with music notes in the air (...jk.... but you get my point) @ first glance, your art looks nothing like an album cover. whats the album name, for instance? @ 2nd glance i'd guess that maybe this was an album cover for techno music, idk tho.
dont forget that when designing an album cover you're also doing the back, such as the song names and a boarder design along with the typography.

hope i helped ^.^