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Visual Assignment: An Album Cover

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An Album Cover.

So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty.

First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band.

Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom of the page.

The last four to five words of the last quote are the title of your first album Lastly, go here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Select the 3rd image. It is the picture for your album cover. Manipulate the picture, resize it, add some other color, whatever. Do the same with the band name and album title, put them over top. However you wanna do it. Make it look cool.

This is a 2 star assignment.

The random Wikipedia page I got was Hunan Cuisine, so that’s what my band is called.  My album cover is called Alone in the World.  It is from a quote from Henry David Thoreau. The photo I got was called Angry Bunny in the Dark?!  This was posted by Thomas (music note next to name).

What I first did was download the photo.  It then opened in Windows Live Photo Gallery (my default place for pictures on my computer).  I then played with the coloring of the image. The next thing I did was open the drawing in paint to add text to it.  I like the few color thing in this because having few colors can represent loneliness.  Which seems to be the theme in this abum.  I really enjoyed this assignment because it I like how with these 2 random words and 1 random picture can create a story itself.

Visual Assignment: An Album Cover

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