Design for CD front cover

When playing on Photoshop I found it difficult to come up with something as it was a new software and therefore couldn't get use to the tools. But the design I finally came up with is a bright background using colours which would reflect the liveliness of our music video, and as well as this the colours reflected the reggae vibes of the music's tone as well. I think bright colours would work well on our final product because it goes well with our music video and will reflect our genre well.
I used a picture of Ben as the main focus of the CD cover as he was the main singer. I started to overlay the image in the background but more opaque so there was more of him and I found this effective as it filled the cover and made it clear he was the main singer, however I don't think this will be effective for our final cover. I think this because after looking at other Ska bands music covers they usually have the whole band of them on the front altogether. so when I produce the final CD cover I will take into consideration that the band is a convention of the genre that needs to be included.