Heavy Metal Album Cover

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This is an album cover for the heavy metal genre. The image is suppose to depict and incorporate an apocalyptic theme.

To produce my album cover I went through a series of stages. First I got an earth texture from the internet then using the elliptical marquee tool I cut out a large circle. I used the spherize filter to make it look 3D. In the layer styles menu I added outer and inner glows to intensify the edges. After that I added in a lens flare for the sun and put some shading on the earth. Then I added text, stars and a rating to make it look professional and it was finished.

The back cover is just some text and a barcode.