Album Art - Design

Thumbnail  album art sketch is based on

Initial sketch 

Triadic colour scheme of green, red and blue hues.

Creating a ghosting effect by adjusting RGB values, using exclusion filters, playing with opacity, adding a scan lines overlay, adding a diffuse glow and strips of noise to create a VHS still effect.

At this point I posted the black and white/colour mock ups online for feedback.  It was suggested the logo wasn't readable enough and would look better in the left hand corner.  Most viewers preferred the colour version however felt the colour was too saturated.  It was also suggested to emphasise the highlights of the image to create more visual interest and add subtle hints of green lighting on the figures to match the background environment.

Final images.  I also tweaked the RGB values of the logo to compliment the VHS still imagery. Though I agree pushing the highlights in the image was a good idea, I think I may have overdone it a little.  I also feel like certain areas, perhaps the red streaks of the left girl's hair and general shade of the left girl's hair, could do with being a little bit more saturated as the overall image feels a bit too dull in spite of the vintage, grungy theme I was going for.