Album Name and Track List

Final Album Name: "Spectrum"

Track List
1. Stranger
2. Rock Is Cursed
3. Nothing Personal
4. Good Times
5. We're In Pieces
6. Fireworks
7. All My Life
8. No Other One
9. Where We Belong
10. Not Now
11. Conspiracy

Final Cover Stock + Edits

We decided to use the stock image "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by meppol for our final album cover.

Original stock:

I used the website vectormagic.com to convert the original bitmap image to vector, which both gave the image it's "cartoony" look and allowed it to be enlarged as much as I liked without losing quality.


Vectorised stock:

Stock Image Permission Notes #2

All images courtesy of artists on deviantart.com. I have gained permission for two of the stock images from the album cover drafts post.

#2: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by meppol

Notes:

Me:
Hey Mary,

I have a favor to ask.

As part of my college course, I'm required to produce a concept for an album cover. It would be fantastic if I would be able to get permission to use one of your pieces as the main artwork, namely "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".

Of course I fully understand if you want to refuse. I know someone asking this out of the blue probably seems a little strange.

But yeah, if you can get back to me with an answer as soon as possible, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for your time.

Mary:
it is ok, you can use it

Stock Image Permission Notes #1

All images courtesy of artists on deviantart.com. I have gained permission for two of the stock images from the album cover drafts post.

#1: "Ten Thousand Memories" by Jon Damaschke (jonniedee)

Notes:

Me:
Hey Jon,

I have a favor to ask.

As part of my college course, I'm required to produce a concept for an album cover. It would be fantastic if I would be able to get permission to use one of your pieces as the main artwork. We're not 100% positive which one it is we'd like to use yet, but we're particularly interested in "Ten Thousand Memories" and "Hidden World".

Of course I fully understand if you want to refuse. I know someone asking this out of the blue probably seems a little strange.

But yeah, if you can get back to me with an answer as soon as possible, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks again.

John:
Hey Jobe,

Thanks for getting a hold of me about this. I have a few questions for you before I can give an answer.

Will you be taking credit for my artwork, meaning will your college course think that you created the work? Or is it ok to use somebody else's work as a collaboration and will you be stating that when you present your album cover?

If you make sure to give me credit as the photographer/artist, then I don't see any trouble with it. If you create a final product, it would be really nice to see what you have done with it.

Thanks,

Jon

Me:

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Yes, as part of the course we're also required to maintain a blog detailing the processes we go through including gaining permission for the artwork we use. So you will be fully credited on there as well as in small print on the final product itself.

Thank you so much for this. If it's not too much trouble (and if you have them), would you be able to send me the largest versions you have of the two pieces? I can definitely work with the uploaded versions but the bigger we can get the better really.

Thanks again.

John:
Alright, you can go ahead with it.