How To Make Album Art USEFUL For Every Platform | Nekro 1990 - NYAN CAT

This song is a tribute to the world wide phenomena of the 2011 meme “Nyan Cat”. To illustrate the cover art I used the vector based program Adobe Illustrator. After that I took the vector files into Adobe Photoshop and formatted the illustrator assets into designs for both the cover art of the song and for the vertical post on instagram “stories” for promotional purposes. Then I created separate photoshop layers to take into Adobe After Effects and created a simple motion graphics canvas for the horizontal platforms like YouTube and vertical platforms like Spotify. Lastly, I took the motion graphics files into Adobe Premiere to sync with the music and export via Adobe Media Encoder. If you’re a musician, filmmaker or artist of any kind make your cover art as useful as possible, for as many platforms as possible. Or hire me to help you out, but I ain’t cheap.

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NEKRO 1990 on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pc47hxNHaQtWpA8yTB48i?si=BCv-GnTRTh-8DUJW8EPDuQ

NEKRO 1990 on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/nekro-1990/1684229408

NEKRO 1990 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nekro1990

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghettoplex.mp4/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/ghettoplex_mp4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ghettoplex
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2694192
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/VxouxFfmutVW
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13212036/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Kino Convo Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ksiFMWzyGTmwq9tHybaKc?si=JZPPj5ScTqmF9sSWndv94w
Kino Convo on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kino-convo-with-g-plex/id1766564019

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Download free NEKRO 1990 music or mixtapes to help you get “Locked In” Discography on Bandcamp: https://nekro1990.bandcamp.com/
Mixtapes on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-LvPXCsWvM6puX2ulsY8gHVtEIaMrFtQ?usp=drive_link

Time Stamps
@00:00 the purpose of making the cover
@00:24 The cover art layers in Photoshop
@00:53 Turning your cover art into vertical promotional post for Instagram Stories
@02:43 Preparing Photoshop elements for After Effects
@03:05 Turing your album art into motion graphics in After Effects
@04:50 Animated Vertical Frame
@06:00 What AI can’t do for your art work
@08:12 Hire me to create for you
@08:53 You can create it too