Final Album Cover

 Here is the image of the final album cover which we have chosen (final image). This has been chosen after we thought that it managed to conform to the conventions of other alternative rock album covers. This abstract, spherical shape is clearly quite unique at first sight however as you can see it has clearly had some sort of influence from albums such as The Resistance by Muse and The Enemy's album Music For The People. This influence can clearly be seen after looking at all 3 images one after the other. It is very artistic and diverse but I feel the same structure of the shape has been emulated. The range of colours does not directly link towards the video and neither does the actual shape itself link to any part of the video at all. However this is exactly the same scenario made within The Resistance, at no point in the video for Uprising (the biggest selling single from the album) is there any link towards the shape shown on the album cover. This makes the album appear separated from the video however since this the same scenario with The Resistance then it makes it clear that our album should take on a more artistic and stylized look whilst our video can be essentially something which is not directly linked. This album was made by using the software Photoshop and was made after creating a Lens Flare which was then had the contrast adjusted to a very high setting, then the hue was altered to make the colour more vibrant and add the specified colours we wanted. After that Sean added application known as 'Glowing Edges' just before adding a blur filter that creates the spherical effect. Adding a watercolour filter was then applied after all this in order to create the desired effect which all assisted with the effect created in the final album cover which can be seen in the final image of this post.