Brush Development - Photoshop

 Producing CD Covers with Brushes
I firstly changed the dimentions of the new photoshop work by changing the height and width to 120mm X 120mm. The resolution was also changed to 300dpi (dot per inch) and the RGB was changed to 16 bit.

Th first version of the front cover I produced is very simplistic and only took a few minutes to make. Firstly, I used the 'Gradient Tool' to insert a background that was interesting rather than a flood fill using the 'Paint Bucket Tool'. I made sure the colours of the gradient were white and light blue by selecting the colours that I wanted. I dragged the gradient line from the top, left corner to the bottom, right corner of the page and this created a fading in affect. I then dowloaded a preformatic brush via brusheezy.com by dowloading the file, extracting the file and then loading it on photoshop. I loaded the font onto photoshop by accessing the drop down menu in the top, left hand corner and clicking 'Load Brushes...' The silhouette figures are the font brushes that I loaded and I changed the size of them via the square brackets on the keyboard. I chose the colour white for these silhouettes as I thought it linked with the gradiented background and cotnrasted with the blue. Finally, I inserted the text and changed the colour to green.

For the second version I downloaded several fonts from the same website and loaded them onto photoshop in the same way. I then pressed F5 on the keyboard to open 'Brush Presets.' To create the background of the CD cover I altered various brush settings including the: brush tip shape, shape dynamics, dual brush and texture. when changing the brush tip shape, I altered the angle so taht I could use the brush vertically as well as horrizontally.The evidence of this is the two purple paint marks on the bottom left of the CV cover image. I then chose various colours that the different brush marks could be and used the brush (b on the keyboard) to situate where I wanted the different brush marks. I also increased the 'spacing' option when altering the brush tip shape. I changed the opacity of the brushes to create the fainter paint marks around the light blue paint splats. The silhouette, pencil and the music notes were increased or decreased in size and positioned accurately. The text was then incorporated and edited by changing the layer styles. Bevel and emboss and different shadows were used to create the white outline to the font.

To develop skills further, I could have incorporated an image off of the internet and made the CD cover more professional.I could have also included more preloaded brushes and made the CD covers more interesting.