Experimental Album

Cover

KULA:SHAKER

Task

As an introduction to our

first media IT lesson, we

were required to re-create

KULA:SHAKER’s Peasants,

Pigs and Astronauts album

cover, using Corel Photo

Paint (similar to Adobe

Photoshop). We were

instructed on how to use

the tools properly so that

we could match it as best

as possible.

The R

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The T

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Com

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Proce

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Ste

p 1

Open Corel Photo Paint

and click the cross on

the “New Image” box.

Once this is done you

will be left with a box

called “Objects” (DO

NOT CLICK ITS CROSS!) which will show you all the photos you have uploaded onto the program.

Proce

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Ste

p 2

To add the first image

(the background) you

click “File” “Open”

and then you choose

the image you want.

Once you have chosen

the image it will appear in its own box

and as content in the

“Objects” box. Crop the image to make it

more square.

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Ste

p 3

From this step onwards, DO

NOT use the same method to

add photos onto the program.

Instead, open the location of

your photos in a separate

window, which will allow you

to drag them onto the

program when needed. To

match KULA:SHAKER’s cover,

you will want to change the

colour, brightness, contrast,

and definition of the “trees

background” so that it will

look similar.

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Ste

p 4

To change these aspects of the

image, click “Image”

“Transform” “Invert” which

will turn the image inside out.

Then you will have to click

“Image” “Adjust” and you

will have the choice between

“Contrast Enhancement” and

“Brightness/Contrast/Intensity”

which will change the image to

the colour you need it to be.

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Ste

p 5

Next you will need to drag the

“escalators” image from the

documents folder into the

background image. To cut the

escalator so it resembles the

original, find the “magic wand” tool

and click on all the bits you don’t

want with the mouse, then click

“delete” to remove it. To finish this

off quickly, click the “eraser” tool

and drag the mouse to get rid of all

excess. Make sure to press “mask”

button to get rid of red tint.

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Ste

p 6

Following this, you will need to drag the

final “deep sea diver”

image into the collage of images and

repeat step 5 until you’re left with a cut-

out diver on the escalators. Adjust the

image so it fits well.

Proce

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Fin

al

Ste

p

Finally, you will need to

add text (which ever

text you like, preferably

not the same because

you are re-creating, not

copying) but you can

change the colours of

the text to be the same.

With these adjustments

you will be left with the

final product:

Final P

roduct