Making the album background

In the first iteration of the album cover, the background had been sourced from Pinterest. It fit the theme I wanted to emulate of physical media. However, I believed I could do better than a simple Pinterest background.

Because the album name is Stalingrad, I believed it would be fitting to print out Soviet newspapers to collage like I had done for the website background. I also printed out some vintage poison warnings to hammer in the themes of tragedy often covered by political bands.

From here, I took away the background from the image and duplicated it until it took up an entire square for the album cover.

After this, I put the collage into the album as a replacement for the pre-existing background. Now, it is much more thematic and also more realistic.

The next step is to replace the filler images for the band members.