{"id":177,"date":"2006-12-01T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/12\/01\/cover_to_cover\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T22:00:38","slug":"cover_to_cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/12\/01\/cover_to_cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover to cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been posting much anywhere because I’m indulging in a fantasy of mine — designing album cover art.<\/p>\n

I won’t recount the stories of my high school days when pretend bands made pretend albums with pretend cover art. Rather, I’ve been working with Acoustica<\/a> to improve the tentative cover art for Eponymous 4 albums.<\/p>\n

I didn’t make my cover art too complex because the software I used before, SureThing, was limited in what you could do. The straw that broke the poor camel’s back was an inability to support Asian fonts. So I switched to Acoustica. It has its own problems<\/a>, but I think I’ve managed to improve on what I’d done before.<\/p>\n

I’m no graphic designer in the first place, so I don’t think my cover art is all that great. But it does suit the kind of music I make.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it would be easier to compare and contrast. The "after" images link to full-size images. The "before" images don’t really have full-size versions.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u98a8\u306e\u6b4c\u3092\u8074\u3051<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before …<\/p>\n

\"[\u98a8\u306e\u6b4c\u3092\u8074\u3051]\"<\/p>\n

After …<\/p>\n

\"[\u98a8\u306e\u6b4c\u3092\u8074\u3051]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Restraint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before …<\/p>\n

\"[Restraint]\"<\/p>\n

After …<\/p>\n

\"[Restraint]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Revulsion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before …<\/p>\n

\"[Revulsion]\"<\/p>\n

After …<\/p>\n

\"[Revulsion]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Orare et Labore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before …<\/p>\n

\"[Orare<\/p>\n

After …<\/p>\n

\"[Orare<\/a><\/p>\n

NaSoPiAlMo 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before …<\/p>\n

\"[NaSoPiAlMo<\/p>\n

After …<\/p>\n

\"[NaSoPiAlMo<\/a><\/p>\n

I even managed to spiff up the tray cards. There are no before shots because I didn’t bother doing anything for the tray cards in SureThing.<\/p>\n

\"[enigmatics]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[Imprint]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[\u98a8\u306e\u6b4c\u3092\u8074\u3051]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[Restraint]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[Revulsion]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[Orare<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[A<\/a><\/p>\n

\"[NaSoPiAlMo<\/a><\/p>\n

If I ever do get a pressing done on these albums, I’m finding a professional graphic designer to do a better job on the ideas I’m aiming for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m no graphic designer in the first place, so I don’t think my cover art is all that great. But it does suit the kind of music I make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-2R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}