final image: front and back cover.

Here is my final album cover, both front and back. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, I liked the composition which was mostly taken from my initial sketches. However, some of the text on the back-cover can be difficult to read and whilst getting feedback, this was pointed out to me. If I am to improve on the covers it will be to make the font easier to read. 

The font I decided to go with for my album cover was 'spaceman' which I had downloaded from dafont.com under the subtitle: 'sci-fi'. I really like this font because I think it ties in with a lot of Pendulum's other album covers. I personally like the reflection of Pendulum's logo in the eyes of on the front, and a few other people agreed with me, some, however, said that the reflections could have perhaps been a little brighter which would have made it more visible and perhaps more eye-catching, but after trying both, I preferred the more subtle effect. 

I think the back-cover could have used more beams as the centre is a little more sparse than the outer edges, but I do quite like how the overall effect came out. I like that I managed to stick to the 'color' theme that I had originally decided on.  

front cover

The front covers beams were originally designed on paper and then scanned in and traced over the beams on photoshop. I used paper first because I wanted to see what the design would look like initially. I like the how bottom layer of black turned out with the scratched-kind of effect. This wasn't intentional to start with. I was originally going to have the background completely black, but I preferred this effect rather than the full black because it looks sort of rugged.

back cover

On  the back cover, I used the same template for the front cover, but added a few extra beams where the eyes would have been on the front. I'm pleased with how it turned out, but I think if I were to improve, I would have added more beams, in the top left hand corner. This was the cover where a few people said that they couldn't read the text, or rather the track-list I think, looking back, that I agree with them and I might come back to it and back the glow behind the text brighter, therefore making the text easier to see.