Creating my CD Cover

I have been studying a lot of tutorials for using photoshop, and i think i have a good feeling of a range of different tools.

I looked at different CD Covers from bands and realised that the cover can be simple and still look great.

I tried making different sections of my picture black and different sections in full colour, however this effect didn't suit my CD cover Background.

-- Girls Aloud 'Biology' CD Cover --

A lot of my tutorials came from this website > http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials.html

It was extreamely helpful since i could experiment with a huge range of effects.

I loved going into Filter, and seeing all the cool effects we could do to our picture.

http://www.sxc.hu/ is a website i used to get a background for my cd cover. I at first chose a picture of a 'Polaroid picture', however when i brought it into photoshop, it would not allow me to crop it or resize it. So i instantly went back to sxc.hu and got an even better picture. The picture had two tones of colour, so i used the orange/red version for the front, and the black and white one for the back.

I wanted to make my band photo black, like they do in iPod Adverts which i watched for some ideas. I then came to this website

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/ipod.html

which tells me how, however the first thing it says is that you should have a good silhouette, and my picture didn't have a very good silhouette. I forgot about that idea, but i defenitely will keep it in mind for future projects.