Cover Artwork

Ever since I got an iPod, having artwork for all my albums has been a pretty important thing for me. I’m pretty visual, so to have scores of albums stuck with no cover or with a yucky one was just annoying to me. One of the first things I did, after making the painful switch from Real Player to iTunes, was to get cover artwork for all my albums.

Sometimes, though, a particular album won’t come with a cover. Sometimes the cover is not easily available, or it looks horrible, or it never had one to begin with. Since I know my way around Photoshop a bit, the obvious choice was to, of course, make my own covers!

Roberta's Choir

My friend Roberta had been in a choir during high school, and she gave my sister and I two CD’s from two of the festivals they performed in.  This was one of the CD’s that never had a cover, obviously; it was a very home-made kind of CD. So, I made my own cover! I found some clip art on the web, and then colored it so it looked visually appealing. I really liked the way these covers came out.

Daddy Long-Legs - The Musical

I’m quite happy with the way these ones turned out; the second one in particular. The first was really a recreation of the actual CD cover, which wasn’t online. I knew what the real cover looked like, so I modified the musical logo, which WAS online, so it matched. That was pretty easy, and a no-brainer. The second one was harder though, because it was a cover for the test recording, which never had a cover to begin with. I picked a promotional image from the musical, and added the DLL logo onto the paper Jarvis is holding. I LOVE how it came out!

Emma - The Musical

These ones were both original creations, since the actual CD doesn’t have a cover as far as I know, and the test recording (second cover) obviously never had one. Again, I just picked promotional images that I liked, and added some text! Pretty easy, and they look great when I shuffle on my iPod.

Extended Narnia

I also like this cover. Way back in the day, a couple short soundtrack bits from the first Narnia movie was released online; these were clips that hadn’t made it into the soundtrack and were only available to listen to in the actual movie. I still have the clips, so naturally I wanted to make a cover for the teeny album. I picked this particular photo to use since one of the clips came from that part of the movie, when they’re practicing archery.

Glen Baker

This one is fun to me because it’s a recreation of the cover that had original come with the CD (made by a friend and home-produced), that had gotten lost quite a long time ago. I couldn’t remember any of the details of the cover except that it had had a sailboat on it with colored stripes like that, and I was lucky enough to stumble on an image that resembled it quite a bit. A new twist on an old cover, but I like it!

The rest of the covers below are just random ones I made for different albums I have. Sometimes when I have a bunch of miscelanious music clips, I’ll group them together by the type that they are. I.e., the “Trailer” album has a lot of clips that I collected for use in making a fan PC trailer YEARS ago, and the “Floor Exercise Music” album is for, you guessed it, a collection of floor exercise music!

US Historical Documents

TV Theme Songs

Trailer

The American Collection

Shelter Cove

Here and There

Floor Exercise Music

Von Trapp Children - Extras

Have you ever made any unique cover art for albums? I’d love to see them! Leave me a link. Hope you enjoyed the ones I posted!

P.S. If for some reason you want to use any of these covers, have at it! I don’t mind.