No one can earn a million dollars honestly...

So last week, i got tagged on Facebook to play the Photoshop Game.  For those of you who don't know the rules (which probably isn't many since I re-tagged pretty much everyone to play) are as follows:

 1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post your cover with your name/album title links

Here's what I started with,

Band Name: Shocker Toys 
Quote: "No one can earn a million dollars honestly" William Jennings Bryan 
Flicker Photo:

It's some guy playing the harmonica (or so the titled of the picture stated)

And here's what I came up with.

I basically played with an overlay of a couple Photoshop filters to get the drawn/painted effect, and then dodged the eye to make it a more prominent focal point. 

I used a radial gradient overlay for the colors, borrowing swatches from a picture of a $100.

The band logo, I took from an image off deviant art, desaturated it and livetraced it in Illustrator.  Added Text then faded the opacity it in Photoshop.  I created a block of text then used a blending mode to create a little more texture in the background.

Then I grabbed a CD guide template off google and laid it all out.

Fun times! :-D 

Thanks for reading and if anyone else wants to play or has played, I'd love to see what you come up with.  You can link me in the comments below.