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Create Double Vision Effect in Photoshop

Begin, Design and Customization, Ideas, The "Hows" of album cover artMay 17, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Check out this cover in the shop So, you're diving into the wild world of double vision for your album art, huh? You've got this creepy monster vibe going on – don't worry, we've all been there with our creative brainchildren! But hey, you're right, that eerie look can totally morph into something cool and…

16 Double Exposure Effect Covers

Begin, Cover Collections, Design and CustomizationMay 1, 20251KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Everybody Loves the Double Exposure Effect! Double exposure effect covers have a way of capturing attention instantly—melding two separate images into a single, dreamlike composition. Artists and audiences are drawn to these covers because they evoke mystery, emotion, and depth at a single glance. This visual style often hints at the layers and complexity found…

Sound Evolution: The Story of the World’s First Digital Audio Workstation

Begin, StorytimeMarch 26, 20242KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The story of the first Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is an intriguing journey through the evolution of music technology. The consensus among historians and technologists is that the British company, Soundstream, which was founded by Thomas Stockham, a professor from the University of Utah, developed the very first digital recording system in the late 1970s.…

Seeing Music: Exploring The Color Palettes of Genres

Begin, IdeasMarch 15, 20242KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Music transcends auditory dimensions and taps into our multi-sensory experiences, with color playing a pivotal role, subconsciously influencing our perceptions of different genres. Each music genre has seemingly adopted its own color palette, shaping album art, promotional materials, and even live shows. But what are these color choices, and what popular albums exemplify them? Pop…

Getting Physical or Going Digital? The Two Sides of Music Publishing

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Your friend tells you that you are gonna love this new song he taped from the radio, and passes you a copy. No, but seriously; Where do people get their music? The Listener goes into a record store, talks with a fellow shop owner, and asks about that new album that is released the other day.…

First Steps of Production Strategies

BeginMarch 8, 20242KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Music is one of the most abstract creations out there. It involves physical effort but the result still stays as something “invisible”. Yet it can be the most concrete way to describe something; such as the heartbeat. Having a vision of an end product is sometimes just not enough. To reach there, the musician or…

Timeless Designs

BeginMarch 8, 20242KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Ever wondered how sometimes you can guess the year an album was made based on the album design? Some of the important album art made in the ‘50s had a very specific approach to the text layout, giving it artistic importance, where one letter turns out to be an arrow that goes through all…

On Alex Steinweiss and the Short History of Album Cover Art

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Music was never directly associated (if not recommended by the composer) with visual arts for many centuries. Although this could hint at the idea that “music has an abstract meaning”, the actuality was that music was never associated with circumstances where the musician was not visible either. Experiencing music meant seeing the creators of it,…

Changes in Becoming Visible

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

We go to music stream platforms, full of content, full of suggestions, heavily filled-up playlists, and input from the friends and colleagues we follow… It became a much different experience to discover new music than when it meant going to a record store and browsing through the shelves, looking at CDs one by one. We…

Seasonal Music Release Strategies

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Christmas and New Year’s Eve are right behind us and a new year with new strategies to release new albums ahead of us, it is time to plan the seasonal albums to target those pop-up playlists for the upcoming holidays of 2022. Everyone does it. Everyone. John Legend has a Christmas album. Sting has an…

What is the real purpose of the album cover?

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Well why, it is to protect those precious and delicate vinyls of course! But what’s the purpose of the album cover when we now live in a digital world? We don’t need to protect the disc inside a package so it arrives safely to the consumer’s hand, or stays in good shape for a longer time.…

2,000 Covers Coming Right Up!

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

You read it well. Our furnace keeps running and AlbumCoverZone forges more than 2,000 hot covers… Yep, 2,000 crispy designs ready to be the face of your sound! Yet, this number is but a small victory when considering everything else it has been achieved since we passed the milestone of 1,000 covers. We are talking…

Path to Success – Going Solo or Working in a Team

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Be that you are an aspiring musician working on releasing their first single, or an experienced recording artist, you will find yourself in moments in your life in which you must make a decision: working by yourself or teaming up with others. In the business realm, an independent artist is no different from an entrepreneur…

Tips for Choosing the Right Cover

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The designers at AlbumCoverZone prepare their works by imagining a possible vision of a musician or label. They have a passionate effort to get closer to you even before you contact them for a cover. This means that the covers you find here will have the authenticity of an artist designing an album cover just for you. Having…

Judge an Album by its Colours

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Music is here to describe things we can't put in words easily. Music is here to add a boost to the meaning that we sometimes can manage to put into the lyrics. How about presenting something that is hardly describable with words? When it comes to finding the correct visual to present our next single,…

Of Masters, Masterpieces and More

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

An album design can do two very important things, sometimes separately, and sometimes together. It can inform the listener in a reassuring way, providing an explanation of what is about to happen. When you see a punk album, you know that it is a punk album. Aiming for the target audience will certainly provide easy access to…

Promotional Strategies and Timeline for a New Album Release

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Excitement of a musician with a “finished” album is hardly comparable to anything else. Though each style comes with a different preparation background, we all end up in pretty much the same place after a mind-blowing or head-aching composition period, hours of rehearsals or explorations of sounds on our DAWs (or sometimes both), session after…

Having an Album Cover With “You” On It

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In pretty much any genre, we see plenty of album covers with the main artist(s) on the cover. No matter what happens in the album cover design world in terms of design fashion; aid and techniques brought up by new technologies that allow new languages to emerge and such; the artists themselves never seem to…

The Right Presentation for You

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The guitarist hands out the envelope format album of the band with the album art looking all colorful and adds “We also have it on Apple Music and Spotify,” just a moment before the manager tries to say “I don’t have a CD-ROM,”. The manager needs to accept the gift, she puts the music album in her…

To be More Visual Than “Present”

BeginMarch 8, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

COVID-19-era musicians that reached these days already showed that there is strength in creative minds that can’t be pushed aside by the pandemic. But just like in any other frontier, the musicians needed to learn and adapt to the current circumstances. Most projects became more active in producing streamable content to stay visible on various…