Alternative Times Album Cover Project

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Alternative Times Album Cover Project

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Alternative Times Album Cover Project
http://php.com.ua/~lezhnev_ij/atac/

In short: If you've got a media player with support for album covers feature, you can use the ATAC to create album cover images for popular "Alternative Times Vol --" music compilation series, with a little knowledge of Adobe Photoshop or The G.I.M.P..

I'll just quote the contents of the README file for more in-depth information:
Alternative Times Album Cover v 1.0.0
http://php.com.ua/~lezhnev_ij/atac/index.php


General information
-------------------

What is it?

It is a template graphic file for an album cover for popular music compilation
series "Alternative Times Vol --". The main creative idea is centered around
pun on word "Times" which is reflected in the artwork: "Alternative Times" is a
newspaper about alternative music, a brand-new newspaper which is listened
to, not read through. The original look of NY Times is recreated in the artwork,
stylized and polished for eye-candy look.

Modern programs called "audio players", such as amaroK for KDE, can deal with
album сovers: assign each of your favorite album a graphic file which is used
as a replacement for standard empty cd mockup image.

"Alternative Times Vol --" series isn't an official one, so nobody worries about
anything except the music. Until now. For the highest appeal of yours (and mine,
of course) you can now create your own stylish, quite cool and good-looking
covers for "Alternative Times Vol --" series with this graphic template.


How to use it?

Each layer contains one item of the composition (play around with switches to
see how the layout is organised, by defaul all layers are set to off, so you could
read this message and terms of usage). So, basically, all you need to change is a
layer named "CHAGE IT: VOLUME XX, MONTH YEAR", where XX is current Alternative
Times Vol number release, MONTH is a full format name of the month in which the
compilation was assembled. For example: VOLUME 72, JUNE 2006 or
VOLUME 68, DECEMBER 2005 - JANUARY 2006. Save it as JPEG file or whatever
file format your application requires and you're done. Quite simple eh? :)



Terms Of Use
------------

This project is licensed under
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
You are free:

to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author
or licensor.

Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may
distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of
this work.

Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.


Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- ... /legalcode>

Disclaimer <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/dis ... up?lang=uk>



TODO layer information
----------------------

Well, this template is looking good for you but it's obviously not really satisfying
to have lots of releases (the number comes up to one hundread soon!) with
practically the same album cover image. The line which says VOLUME XX helps
differentiate between the releases but, lets be honest, we don't want to have
100 images looking all the same. Nevertheless, it seems impossible to create
each month a different album cover image for each release of "Alternative Times
Vol --" compilations.

So, this is how we gonna live with it: each 100 releases of "Alternative Times Vol --"
will have got its own design of album cover image which will look very similar, justlike the current template.

If things go all the same way and we might have "Alternative Times 100" a tottally
new design will be introduced, which will be used for the next 100 releases unless
"Alternative Times 200" is out - a new design will be created once again.


How about all the previous releases?

Frankly speaking, I don't feel like creating artwork for all the previous releases. I'm
a lazy bum, you know. So it might be a good choice for you to just change the
"CHANGE IT: ..." layer in accordance with your releases and have fun.

If you feel like challenged, you could introduce your own designs of the album
covers either totally different to this one or even derivative works based on this
template. In any case make sure you've read through and understood the
information in the "Terms Of Use" layer.



Spread The Word. Tell Your Friend About The Project!
----------------------------------------------------

Your friends are listening to "Alternative Times Vol --" series too?
Tell them about this project just now!

Feel free to link from your web-site to the project page, tell
everybody who you think may find this project interesting and
useful.

Lets get it really f0cking spread all over the world! :)



Credits
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Maintainers

Ivan Lezhnev, Jr.


Contributors

None. Whant your name here? Make your contribution NOW!


Contacts

Ivan Leznev, Jr. <lezhnev at gmail dot com>
IRC: k4i @ EFnet
Enjoy.
Burn baby, burn
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