IN STEP -- Where My Armour Ends Album Cover

See the creation video here

For the album cover, I decided to go with an old VHS-type style. I drew inspiration from Halsey's Room 93 cover, using the idea of distorting the image. I chose to use TV scan lines as the background, because it has a low amount of detail and would be good for creating a simple textured background. Images with a plain-coloured background seem too neat, and I wanted to go for a messy, more grungy feel. I used a custom pattern to fill the image with lines, and then used a noise generator which was built into Photoshop to add the noise overlay.

The retro distortion effect was accomplished by changing the outputs of the red, green and blue channels of the text and misaligning the copies slightly. I then sheared the bottom half of the text to make it look even more distorted.

Another example of the retro distortion effect
(http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-vector-color-distortion-alphabet-vector-339694445.jpg)