My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, how to keep critical text layers editable for any future change and how to render a quick mockup using the Vanishing Point filter. Let’s get it started!

Tutorial Assets

In order to save time, you can download all of the following images before you get started.

• Empty room thanks to medialab
• A sitting guy thanks to kristtina
• Stool
• Crow 1 thanks to Lip Kee
• Crow 2 thanks to MShades
• Pile of Books
• Open book
• More books
• Paper sheet
• CD case
• Paper texture

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