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Abstract Album Cover Art Photoshop Tutorial

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In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to make use of Photoshop’s Liquify tool, along with a few additional edits to create the kind of trendy artwork that’s popular on album covers or as abstract backgrounds that could form part of a brand.

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43 responses to “Abstract Album Cover Art Photoshop Tutorial”

  1. Anti Shakeeme Avatar
    Anti Shakeeme

    Hey guys would any of you guys like to help me out on photoshop .

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  2. Sofia A Avatar
    Sofia A

    whats the name of the font used?

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  3. Andrei "Meeks" Cabaero Avatar
    Andrei “Meeks” Cabaero

    How much would you charge for something like this?

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  4. Hades Decorative Elements Avatar
    Hades Decorative Elements

    I LOVE YOU! BYE!

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  5. Christopher weeks Avatar
    Christopher weeks

    Hi Chris , I'm trying to get into making album art as there is a large music scene in my area what programs do you recommend for drawing and graphics

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  6. ForgottenRoar Avatar
    ForgottenRoar

    omG. I have been wondering how to do this for so so long. I appreciate you. You da best. I swear man

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  7. Reaperfy Avatar
    Reaperfy

    Thanks

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  8. jester070993 Avatar
    jester070993

    trying build my portfolio and get my name out there – ill do free graphics for people. hit me up so we can talk

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  9. ferdinand gulo Avatar
    ferdinand gulo

    Thankyouuu for AWESOME tutorial 🙂

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  10. R3THK Avatar
    R3THK

    this is how chainsmokers make album/cover art

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  11. Ninjacat Avatar
    Ninjacat

    whaaaat!!! this is dope mang!!

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  12. the bootleg boy Avatar
    the bootleg boy

    The 'Cloudkid' look

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  13. Benjamin Plunkett Avatar
    Benjamin Plunkett

    what is the font?

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  14. MinNotMax Avatar
    MinNotMax

    I have a problem with the liquify thing. When I click the step backward and bring it back to its normal size, the last liquify effect cannot be clicked. I am using CS5 and I don't know what to do. Thanks

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  15. Bonelord King Avatar
    Bonelord King

    nice

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  16. shane mc geown Avatar
    shane mc geown

    How do I make these album covers work for Spotify, iTunes and Store Websites ? is there.a certain layout i.e. 1600 x 1600 or what ?

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  17. shane mc geown Avatar
    shane mc geown

    What free font is similar to this ?

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  18. Black Panda Avatar
    Black Panda

    Easy And so Amazing 😀 I gonna use this technique for my new song cover – Thanks <3

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  19. Grace Liu Siyan Avatar
    Grace Liu Siyan

    hey where do we get your free photography grunge textures in ps? looks amazing btw

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  20. HLINE Avatar
    HLINE

    Love the video but try to speak slower

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  21. REVOX Music Avatar
    REVOX Music

    I can't press "Liquify". It's all greyed out for me. Anybody knows how to fix this?

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  22. MultipleTrickPony Avatar
    MultipleTrickPony

    how do you get the TT Bluescreenss font???

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  23. Edem Chablis Avatar
    Edem Chablis

    I'm missing the 'Pin Edges' thing unfortunately :(. Any idea on how to get it to appear, google is not helpful :((((

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  24. Nigo Slimane Avatar
    Nigo Slimane

    Looks like giriboys album cover happy I found this

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  25. Parker Turner Avatar
    Parker Turner

    Where can you get those kickass grunge textures?

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  26. Anatoly Terentev Avatar
    Anatoly Terentev

    Hello, Hi, cool tutorial! Say please, where to get the texture that you used?

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  27. Bhuty Mlangeni Avatar
    Bhuty Mlangeni

    Thanks for the dope tutorial.

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  28. Moritz Avatar
    Moritz

    Super well explained and even simple to understand for PS rookies like me

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  29. Ayush K. - Motion Design Avatar
    Ayush K. – Motion Design

    I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS EVERYWHERE!!!!

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  30. mh kuda Avatar
    mh kuda

    Fantastic tutorial!

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  31. Jared Houle Avatar
    Jared Houle

    Wow ur tip on image reduction. Genius kind sir

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  32. Michelle Fouché Avatar
    Michelle Fouché

    You truly are amazing. Thank you for sharing and keeping up with the high standard of work. Your tutorials are the bomb!

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  33. Sabir Ali Avatar
    Sabir Ali

    Love the technique for applying filter really your tutorial very useful plz do every week 1 tutorial love to watch and learn. keep it up

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  34. Joke sparrow Avatar
    Joke sparrow

    Upload video more often pls

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  35. Kaushal Mehta Avatar
    Kaushal Mehta

    This technique can also be used to create marble floors for compositions, or wood textures. WOW! What a cool technique 🙂

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  36. effennekappa Avatar
    effennekappa

    Marvelous!

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  37. Brent Galloway Avatar
    Brent Galloway

    That first bit about resizing the image to save on CPU usage is genius! Killer tutorial as always, Chris! 🙂

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  38. Sara Abdolhay Avatar
    Sara Abdolhay

    u r awesome

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  39. Newecreator Avatar
    Newecreator

    Nice tip for the liquify on saving some computer resources!

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  40. Arjun Sankar Avatar
    Arjun Sankar

    dont ever stop making vids. Like EVERR.

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  41. Landry Amick Avatar
    Landry Amick

    where can i download your texture pack

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  42. Vicki Sigh Avatar
    Vicki Sigh

    This is a fantastic and extremely helpful tutorial, thank you so much!

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  43. Robert Du Bois Avatar
    Robert Du Bois

    Why have I never thought about making the image smaller, doing the filter, then bigger and adding the filter… AGH! I just thought waiting was part of the photoshop experience haha

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