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Project Meeting The band loved the initial concept sketch I
Project Meeting
Our new CD, Storm Front Conspiracy, kind of
client comments tells a story across the 11 tracks — the husband art director comments submitted last week, so we’re ready to start
building the files. In addition to the band’s
goes away on military service, the wife waits
logo, I’ve gathered the photographs I want to
for him, he comes home but doesn’t remember
use. I also already created a title treatment in
her, she looks for answers to his amnesia.
Photoshop, so I’ll send you that file as well.
Our band is a combination of rock, country,
and alternative/punk. We want the artwork for
The special edition LP will be 10″ square, but
the new CD to be dramatic, to reflect both our
and 1/4″ safe margin since the cover sleeve will
personalities and the story we are telling.
be printed.
We’re actually releasing this first as a limited- you need to incorporate 1/8″ bleed allowance
edition album on vinyl; the sleeve for that The 10″ file should be large enough for most
version is 10″ square. We also need files for a print advertising applications, so we can just
standard-size printed CD insert, and for digital use the same file for those projects.
libraries like iTunes. A standard CD insert is 4.75″ square; that ver-
sion needs to incorporate 1/8″ bleeds as well,
but it only needs 1/8″ safe margin according to
our printer.
For digital media formats, we’ll go with the
current standards for iTunes music cover art.
They require artwork to be at least 3000 ×
3000 pixels, delivered as high-quality JPEG or
PNG files. That format should be sufficient for
most other online catalogs.
To complete this project, you will:
project objectives o Resize a raster image to change resolution
o Composite multiple images into a single
background file
o Incorporate both raster and vector elements
into the same design
o Transform and arrange individual layers to
create a cohesive design
o Create layer groups to easily manage related
layer content
o Use selection techniques to isolate images
from their backgrounds
o Save two different types of TIFF files for
different ad requirements
