Photo taken with bright sunlight, gradient filling for the fire out of the dragons mouth. Hue, and saturation altered before negative art applied for the effect you see.
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Image is a bit small, it is differnt then normal, but I don't think I would actually see this on an album cover. I like that you listed the feature songs.
The negative effect (or whatever it was) definately seems like a bad call here. The colors don't work well, the image is overly busy, your text is impossible to read at bottom left, and it's nearly impossible to tell what this photo is actually of.
This is very hard to look at for any length of time. The smaller lettering is very hard to read and almost blends into the background in some areas. If you had left all the song titles off I would have scored this much higher.
The shot itself is interesting but the inversion and post processing leaves me blinded if I look at it too long. It literally hurts my eyes. If I saw this in the store I would pass it up without a second glance.
As is a 4
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No I did not try to read the titles of the songs you put on your album cover for a couple of reasons.
First, as I said before it literally hurt my eyes to look at it the picture too long.
Second, the lettering almost blended into the background, I could not see it that well.
Third, it was rather small overall and again, difficult to see with that particular font.
There are my reasons for the vote. I'll be honest, I like the cleaner shots for the album covers. Some of the best covers I have ever seen, IMHO, are clean, crisp and grab my attention. To much writing and such is just distracting to me in any picture venue. Even on my album covers, some of my favorite covers from the 70's and 80's were the easy on the eyes ones. :)
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