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Album covers and song covers for my albums and recorded works. Album 1 - The Only Way
Album 2 - The Way Back
I took the photo of the ferris wheel for the If Only You Knew song cover art and edited it with PhotoRoom and Infinite Painter
The ferris wheel shot for If Only You Knew has such a moody, wistful feel, great pairing with the title. What's your process for picking which photo becomes the cover versus one that stays a supporting visual?
I don't usually start with a finished vision. I gather photos, concepts, and visual ideas, then experiment until one image begins to feel like the song. The cover isn't always the strongest photograph—it becomes the image that communicates the emotional core the clearest. The...
That makes sense. Choosing the image that carries the song’s emotional core, even when it is not the technically strongest frame, is such a good art-direction filter.
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For the first one, I design in Figma, animate using Figma Motion, and then edit everything in DaVinci Resolve
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