Some colour variations of a Single cover i designed for my friend’s band Portalooth. All created in Photoshop, i went for an 80′s retro futurewave stylistic approach as that was the style of the target piece and i kept the cats from the original cause i thought they were cute. The laser beam eyes were inspired by a previous Portalooth cover for ‘Manly Rock Tears’. I followed a great tutorial by Rose from tutpad to achieve the retro title text effect, I had never used 3D in photoshop before and found it to be pretty time consuming but it became increasingly more intuitive towards the end. Retrospectively i feel the design was on brief but maybe a little bit over the top and i could have stylized it to fit the 80′s theme a bit better by creating some VHS distortion effects with the liquify tool. Unfortunately i dont live in a city with high rises so couldn’t go out and shoot a similar background to the target piece, need to get a subscription to a stock image service or something to get access to stuff that i cant capture myself.
The original cover issued for redesign
The target style for the new cover
