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just use your imagination to make this somehow work.medina.jpg

i'm not the only one who sees a woman wearing a black v-neck and holding her breasts where the birds are... right?!

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Hey, I really really love this idea, and it'd be really nice if someone explained how I could do something like this using Gimp or paint or whatever. Thank you!

 

OK, so what I do first is find a good sized photo of the album artwork (500x500 or higher is best!). I blow up the photo big and lower the opacity on it to make a good looking background. I then paste another photo of the album artwork to the program and make it smaller. I find a record from another release that already has something similar to what I want or google what i'm looking for i.e. "yellow vinyl record". I make the record the size of the album artwork and bury it behind it a little bit to create the record going into the jacket effect. After all that I cut a circle out of the album artwork and paste it over the label on the record and a small hole in the center. For effect/professionalism I add a backrop shadow and done!

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this thread tells me people want splatter vinyl, i was under the impression that splatter wasn't good.  i'm cornfused.

i have one splattered record, and it's one of my favorites (syg mutiny). i want so many more. all the splatters i see have the most interesting color combinations too. problem is, they never feature music that i like.

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i have one splattered record, and it's one of my favorites (syg mutiny). i want so many more. all the splatters i see have the most interesting color combinations too. problem is, they never feature music that i like.

one of my favorite record I own is The Appleseed Cast's "Two Conversations" that graveface put out... It looks great (clear with highlighter yellow, black, and white splatter) and sounds great.

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splatter, mix, swirl. if you're going to do a solid color (opaque or translucent), don't even bother unless it goes beyond what you'd find in a crayola 8 pack. just do black.

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I know this is primarily for records that have yet to receive a pressing, but I really wish Explosions in the Sky's first record, How Strange, Innocence, would be pressed again. I think the record was only out of 300, and I have yet to see one on sale, even on eBay.

I would buy that in a second. I would love if they used the CD art. Only album from them I can get through. I always forget that I actually like that album. I am going to listen now.
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I decided to try to do my ideas on my own and this is what I came up with (Warning extremely tacky photos approaching).

 

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Helvetia - The Acrobats (on frosted clear vinyl with green haze)

 

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French Kicks - Swimming (white vinyl with blue, red, and yellow streaks)

 

The picture of the vinyl in this mockup was apparently taken with a cell phone but it was the best that I could find. It was originally a Converge record and was clear with "shards".

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Would love to own that Helvetia but too bad John from Static Cult is a lazy ass. I mean that in an endearing way. I just can't see him ever spending his time on that. It would be cool if Joyful Noise picked it up.

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