Build album cover art for my friend Nance’s 1991 solo acoustic EP.
Background layer is a simple repeating pattern of a wood texture I grabbed from image search. Above that layer is a wood-textured cube, also snagged through image search. (This one clearly has copyright issues, but nothing that can't be quickly salvaged by an iPhone and a trip to Ikea.)
I am testing out new tools. I used to use Photoshop and Freehand, back when there was Freehand. I'm unhappy with Adobe’s subscription model, so I use Pixelmator (which I absolutely love) and I’m trial-ing Affinity Designer. Affinity's skew tool is a little wonky (and took me an hour to find because it's so well hidden) but I expect I just need to fiddle with it some more. Anyway, the perspective is a little off on the rotation and skew of "Rosewood" but this was good enough for the intended use.
I spent the rest of the morning digitizing the audio from a cassette tape into Audio Hijack and editing that into MP3s with Fission.iTunes Album Cover Art
July 29, 2016
Build album cover art for my friend Nance’s 1991 solo acoustic EP.
Background layer is a simple repeating pattern of a wood texture I grabbed from image search. Above that layer is a wood-textured cube, also snagged through image search. (This one clearly has copyright issues, but nothing that can't be quickly salvaged by an iPhone and a trip to Ikea.)
I am testing out new tools. I used to use Photoshop and Freehand, back when there was Freehand. I'm unhappy with Adobe’s subscription model, so I use Pixelmator (which I absolutely love) and I’m trial-ing Affinity Designer. Affinity's skew tool is a little wonky (and took me an hour to find because it's so well hidden) but I expect I just need to fiddle with it some more. Anyway, the perspective is a little off on the rotation and skew of "Rosewood" but this was good enough for the intended use.
I spent the rest of the morning digitizing the audio from a cassette tape into Audio Hijack and editing that into MP3s with Fission.