DVD cover and label

I did lots of things this week on my assignment. With my DVD cover, I planned adding a breezy effect on it. At first, I started doing it by using different kinds of brushes but I’m not artistic enough to make my imagination come true. What I did was, I researched for some tutorials and took some tips from it. And am able to make the breezy effect by using the Clouds. Under Filter > Render, choose Clouds and you'll have this kind of effect and just adjust the Levels. My settings is shown below.

Go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance, on this part, I changed the colour into blue.

To add a breezy effect, I used Motion Blur under Filter > Blur. With the combination of Clouds and Motion Blur, as you can see, it gives my background a feeling of wind blowing that blends with my Chinese clouds.

I also decided to put shadows on the characters to make it stand out because  it looks plain and kind of boring. I started with Rikuo, first, I made a copy of Rikuo's image (refer to Layers) and renamed it to rikuo-shadow then filled it with black colour. Then go to Edit > Transform > Distort, on this part, I am able to control the shadow look of the character.

Change the order of the Layers, rikuo first and under it is rikuo-shadow (refer to Layers). Drag rikuo-shadow layer downwards (as seen on the image below) then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to make it look like a real shadow.

I also used the same process in Nurahiyon's image, the image below shows how I dragged the layer to it's proper position that will look like his shadow. After that, just copy the Layer style from rikuo-shadow layer to Nurahiyon-shadow so that they will have the same effect which is the Gaussian Blur.

Since it is a Japanese anime, I added the Japanese title on it and copied the same effect as the English title but with a lesser Outer Glow.

On my DVD label, I used almost all the process I did on my cover. I just copied some of the layers from the cover to the label like the background clouds and the shadow effect. Here's what my DVD label looks like:

On the English title, I used Wrap text with Arc style so that I could make it look like a C because the round shape of the cd. And also, the Japanese title is from top to bottom unlike from the cover which is from left to right alignment. Moreover, there's no need of dragging the shadow layer instead I moved it a little on the right and copied the same effect.