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Post by lolage on Jun 14, 2008 16:50:44 GMT -5
Auto level really just lightens up stuff. How'd that help?. The picture im using of her is this one; www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/annasophia-robb-us-premiere-if-harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-0hKyC0.jpgI cut away the text, and I use Quick Selection Tool to delete all surroundings, leaving only her and a black background. Black background I remove when I add the picture of her into the Cover project. Anyway, Idk how you want me to fit her into the surroundings of the 4 seasons, since they all got such different colors. And her dress doesn't fit them either; which is why I just tried Colorize her so its one color only and not a bunch. The blur on her is because I have to make the picture of her much larger to fit into the project, which gives those "Pixel details". You know, so you actually slightly can see pixels around her. Tho that aint nothing slight blur and Smudge Tool can get quite good away. I will ofc remove texts as you want; does this include "For AnnaSophia Robb......." ? And ill think of some ideas for title. Tho ur last call about text not having white outlines; no problem, going away anyway ;]. About the black thing, it might look like a black void between the 2 photos, at right and left, in the middle. I thought so too, but its because im on flatscreen, and colours on flatscreens can get slight darker if looking from a wrong angle (Most likely to far away). Just look close and u'll see there actually is no "space" with pure black. It might be dark in middle but shouldn't be problem to fix, but trust me; white is all messy. I wont do all this now, most likely tomorrow night. Getting guests tomorrow, celebrating my bday. //.. Regards
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Post by newbornrecords on Jun 15, 2008 3:04:41 GMT -5
Oh Ok I get it... so you guys are making a music album and you guys are trying to figure out what to use for the cover right?
In my personal opinion... I don't know about that cover yo. I like the idea with the 4 seasons in the backround but AnnaSophia looks kinda weird in the pic as somebody already pointed out. It's just my opinion yo... and I'd like to help you guys out so I'm giving you an honest one.
Ya know what I think would look cool though... Is a cover with scenes from some of her movies. Just throwing some Ideas at there. Oh and paperchase.. How many songs will you be recording for the album?
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Post by newbornrecords on Jun 15, 2008 4:17:20 GMT -5
Yo Paperchase I just heard your demo's yo... I gotta say I'm really feeling the second track. The melody is real nice and I'm diggin the vocals too. The thing I am not diggin is the quality of sound... Do you have someone that is going to is going to track your song in Pro Tools and get that mastered for you? If you don't... I can get you a good quality sound. I can do it myself on Fruity Loops... which will get you a good quality, but not great quality. Or, I have a buddy who has produced tracks for some big name artists such as the Ying Yang twins and I might be able to convince him to master your song... it would be a free deal so he probably won't but you never know. He knows how to use Pro tools/Logic, all of of that stuff and he could get you a real nice sound. No gaurentees on that coming throught though. Or... I can remake your song using my own DAW that way I could get it at least the instruments sounding real nice... and then I could track your vocals over that. You would obviously get full credit for the song being that you wrote it... I would just be using my instruments to lay it out... and could add multiple effects if you wanted me to. That's probably the last option... but if you are interested, I'll let you hear some of my tracks and you can see the kind of quality you will get... www.myspace.com/original916 The only songs that is fully mastered is the first one... and I can gaurentee you at least that good of quality on your instruments. Also songs number 2 and 14 are semi mastered but still have some work to be done. The rest are all raw tracks that need to be tracked and mixed. Anyway man get at me because I am a lover of music and I have big dreams and aspirations of becoming a bigtime music producer... and ya never know what things can turn into... It could start out as a birthday song for AnnaSophia and then become a hit song... You just never know. Alright man well let me know what you planning on doing
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 4:45:45 GMT -5
Oh Ok I get it... so you guys are making a music album and you guys are trying to figure out what to use for the cover right? In my personal opinion... I don't about that cover yo. I like the idea with the 4 seasons in the backround but AnnaSophia looks kinda weird in the pic as somebody already pointed out. It's just my opinion yo... and I'd like to help you guys out so I'm giving you an honest one. Ya know what I think would look cool though... Is a cover with scenes from some of her movies. Just throwing some Ideas at there. Oh and paperchase.. How many songs will you be recording for the album? Hey mate. I will defo try make a picture with some of her movies in background instead of seasons to see how it looks like and post it here. If you want some specific pictures for it please post before tonight, and only 4 that is . And Paperchase is making 4 songs, one for each season ;]. Can change tho, not my desicion. But surely talk to Paperchase about ur post, i'd love to hear the 2 versions of urs and hear what difference cud be that u cud add. //.. Regards
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Post by Paperchase on Jun 15, 2008 5:49:02 GMT -5
newbornrecords: Hey, don't worry, I just put up a demo using my crappy laptop mike. So the quality's gonna be pretty bad. I've got a better facility at my school studio- Logic Pro and a whole load of hardware- I just need time to get a proper recording up. I'm gonna be adding some extra instruments, so it's all cool. Thanks anyway- if there's anything that I need help with, I'll be sure to tell you lolage: I think we should scrap the seasons idea... what if we did like a photo table like on your sig? As in, put photos of AnnaSophia on a table and use that. The only problem is, it would probably look incredibly cheap... If you could somehow get photos of Anna and arrange them on a real desk, maybe with a lamp, a pen, and a paper with some lyrics on it, take a picture of it and photoshop that, that would be awesome. I'll try to send you any useful pictures.
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 6:28:09 GMT -5
lolage: I think we should scrap the seasons idea... what if we did like a photo table like on your sig? As in, put photos of AnnaSophia on a table and use that. The only problem is, it would probably look incredibly cheap... If you could somehow get photos of Anna and arrange them on a real desk, maybe with a lamp, a pen, and a paper with some lyrics on it, take a picture of it and photoshop that, that would be awesome. I'll try to send you any useful pictures. I see your idea yes; a picture of my desktop with like u mention a paper where we can add text (title and other stuff), pen lamp just to make it look good. Can also add some empty frames, and then just add pictures of her instead, might some movies. Even seasons if finding enough. Idk yet, ill look at it tonight. //.. RegardsEDIT:I believe you want a "normal desktop" ? I mean, I dont have a desktop where I do homework and stuff, I just got the one where my computer stands. The computer itself stands "Down" on some kind of glass floor. But the desktop itself has Monitor, speakers, mouse and keyboard on it. Now that doesnt rlly fit with pictures pen, lamp and paper with text does it ?.. Just wanna know if you want me to remove this or not to take the picture
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Post by Paperchase on Jun 15, 2008 6:42:59 GMT -5
I'd prefer it were as 'old school' as possible. And preferably take the photo not from birds eye view, but from an angle. I'll try to send you a photo of what I mean.
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 7:45:49 GMT -5
Loooovelyyyy! x-)
//..Regards
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 12:40:20 GMT -5
I know you wanted desktop, but thought I'd make it more living. Came up with this; [Click On Picture For Original Size {800x600}]Hope you like it //.. Regards
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Post by newbornrecords on Jun 15, 2008 16:23:20 GMT -5
newbornrecords: Hey, don't worry, I just put up a demo using my crappy laptop mike. So the quality's gonna be pretty bad. I've got a better facility at my school studio- Logic Pro and a whole load of hardware- I just need time to get a proper recording up. I'm gonna be adding some extra instruments, so it's all cool. Thanks anyway- if there's anything that I need help with, I'll be sure to tell you lolage: I think we should scrap the seasons idea... what if we did like a photo table like on your sig? As in, put photos of AnnaSophia on a table and use that. The only problem is, it would probably look incredibly cheap... If you could somehow get photos of Anna and arrange them on a real desk, maybe with a lamp, a pen, and a paper with some lyrics on it, take a picture of it and photoshop that, that would be awesome. I'll try to send you any useful pictures. Alright man all good. I'm excited to hear the finished product because I think it's going to sound real nice. What other instruments are you planning on using? Hey Lolage I think that looks cool yo. Still looks a little amateur but I think you are deffinitely on to something mayne. Good ish yo
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 16:39:21 GMT -5
Theres a point of the CD cover, newbornrecords; Not looking professional. The whole point about; pictures not fitting frames, and the funny looking BTT box down in corner is the whole point. Its a sketch. The whole point is to make this look not professional, funny, and Sketch'ish. Because that turns the whole thing around, actually making this pretty good cover, special. Not some fancy bling bling with golden text shining in the light of a star or something. Honestly I like this cover, and if I adjust the pictures abit, I think its good.
//..Regards
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Post by Paperchase on Jun 15, 2008 16:48:10 GMT -5
lolage: That... is an amazing idea. It also would make the cover a lot more interesting. So, we need to work out what we're gonna have on the shelves. I'm thinking- one framed photo of AnnaSophia, preferably more 'family photo' than 'model photo', if you know what I mean. Although, one leetle problem... this would probably all have to be done on photoshop. I prefer to have the whole photo taken and just edited rather than stuff all put together, since that naturally looks, as newbornrecords put, a little amateur. We should have a lot of abstract stuff... gah! Anything that could represent AnnaSophia? Like themes, or objects? I was thinking dreams, or windows, and maybe have a garden path or something, with a few transparent images of AnnaSophia. I don't know!!! newbornrecords: I'm planing on using some string, and the basic guitar, drums and bass. I might put in some woodwind if I feel like it, but I don't think it'll be completely necessary. The basis is piano, and I'll probably record some harmony to go with it.
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Post by lolage on Jun 15, 2008 18:25:16 GMT -5
lolage: That... is an amazing idea. It also would make the cover a lot more interesting. So, we need to work out what we're gonna have on the shelves. I'm thinking- one framed photo of AnnaSophia, preferably more 'family photo' than 'model photo', if you know what I mean. Although, one leetle problem... this would probably all have to be done on photoshop. I prefer to have the whole photo taken and just edited rather than stuff all put together, since that naturally looks, as newbornrecords put, a little amateur. We should have a lot of abstract stuff... gah! Anything that could represent AnnaSophia? Like themes, or objects? I was thinking dreams, or windows, and maybe have a garden path or something, with a few transparent images of AnnaSophia. I don't know!!! So on some of the shelves you want a window (for example) on a shelve, with the background of it some kind of dream.. Like its a door to some other universe ? o0... Or how do u mean by 'themes, objectes (dreams, windows, garden path)'. I dont have a model like this with shelves in my room or any other part of the house. Picture is real tho just taken from a shop selling it. So its basicly the same; its a real photo taken, just bad quality cuz I had to make it large. But the picture im making atm. is also 800x600, which is to big for a CD cover, so the quality of it will be lots better when making it real size. Ill find new photos, but please explain with the whole thing mentioned above. : D //.. Regards
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Post by Paperchase on Jun 15, 2008 18:33:05 GMT -5
We might just scrap the whole desk idea. We could have either: a garden path cover, a 'window' with various images on its frames or something. That's what I meant...
Because the shelves have waaay too many things we have to fill up. I'd prefer something more simplistic. I'll try to send you some ideas.
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Post by flycat on Jun 16, 2008 1:50:43 GMT -5
The best adviser for this, it is your own imagination lolage. And I think you have it. Use your imagination and you will make it best.
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