2009-10-26, 23:08
All I did was either search google images for something along the lines of "band name promo" set the filters to 'Large' picture size, or alternatively look on the bands website/myspace, 70% of the time you'll get a decent enough image that just requires a little cropping to make it 1:1 other times you have to take a bit of artistic licence and maby crop out a band member or fill in a fake background with some healthy use of the clone tool.
Some of the bands are so bloody obscure/unknown I had to use teeny tiny pictures (I tired for no less than 300*300ish) and upscale them as best as I could for this I used a combination of Alienskin Blowup Photoshop plugin (it kinda vectorizes the picture and blows it up and adds a bit of noise) or if that didn't get a decent result, enlarging it in Photoshop and playing with the sharpness, colours, lightness/darkness (darkening a picture well will hide a lot of artefacts in the dark areas) etc... and adding a little noise (a sneaky trick but it works). I think the best example of this was for 1000 Homo DJs as I think that pic was somewhere in the 200*200ish region to begin with a few other examples are:
Babes In Toyland (upscaled manually)
Boards Of Canada (alienskin)
Chris Vrenna (alienskin, lighness/darkness tweaking)
God Is An Astronaut (content aware scaling)
Louis Armstrong (added pretty much everything above his head)
Polygon Window (completely cheated and just used an aphex twin pic from a myspace page
)
Also excellent work on getting them on HTBackdrops so fast! I didn't even think to ask for some ftp access.
Some of the bands are so bloody obscure/unknown I had to use teeny tiny pictures (I tired for no less than 300*300ish) and upscale them as best as I could for this I used a combination of Alienskin Blowup Photoshop plugin (it kinda vectorizes the picture and blows it up and adds a bit of noise) or if that didn't get a decent result, enlarging it in Photoshop and playing with the sharpness, colours, lightness/darkness (darkening a picture well will hide a lot of artefacts in the dark areas) etc... and adding a little noise (a sneaky trick but it works). I think the best example of this was for 1000 Homo DJs as I think that pic was somewhere in the 200*200ish region to begin with a few other examples are:
Babes In Toyland (upscaled manually)
Boards Of Canada (alienskin)
Chris Vrenna (alienskin, lighness/darkness tweaking)
God Is An Astronaut (content aware scaling)
Louis Armstrong (added pretty much everything above his head)
Polygon Window (completely cheated and just used an aphex twin pic from a myspace page
)Also excellent work on getting them on HTBackdrops so fast! I didn't even think to ask for some ftp access.
