Designing Album Cover Art
If you want to work as a freelance designer, you may find you have to start out designing a few album covers for free to build up a portfolio of work. Education in graphic design is the usual path into designing album cover art. You need familiarity with graphic design software program and the basics of design. You’ll also need to learn how to communicate properly with printers about colours, paper, and other faces of your final design so that the printing comes out as everyone envisioned it. Obviously, you need some creative ability and familiarity with music is a must most genres have a typical “feel” for find of cover art they use, and you should be able to listen to music and come up with a design that compliments it.