![]() ![]() You can then simply save them them to your computer in a dedicated folder. This searches a huge database of album covers and finds mostly high resolution images. Getting this done involved downloading a free image tool from the web. Loved that album, darn it! Finding the album artwork online The one that still slipped through the net is Rudimental’s ‘Home’. Watching The Hunger Games proved to be a good move as seeing Lenny Kravitz in the movie reminded me of his amazing album ‘Mama Said’ - a definite ‘in’. Once I had my list whittled down, I still held off for a bit and chopped and changed. Music is so powerful! The likes of Underworld’s ‘Dubnobasswithmyheadman’, Rage Against the Machine, Fugazi’s ‘Repeater’ and Doves’ ‘Lost Souls’ are all significant to me for various reasons. The brief was to keep it personal and not to try to make it ‘The Best Albums of All Time’ it was more about what formed memories or evoked emotions - stuff like that. ![]() It was hard work deciding which album covers to include, and I spent a long time physically trawling through my collection. I wanted to share this process as it has been fun and already has drawn lots of interest. Therefore, I worked out how to get the 100 album images printed as a poster using software and a cloud printing service, before getting it professionally framed. I soon realised that scanning the original covers would not give me the required quality and consistency. Most of these are also pieces of art in in their own right, so I was sure it was going to look cool. I wanted to reproduce a selection of my old CD album covers that are stuck in the loft, and present them proudly on the wall in an effort to remind myself to listen to them from time to time. ![]()
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