Inever thought I’d take a stab at this score, but it’s just so good (even the songs!), and the version of the official cover I had been using so far, was just a bit dull in terms of colours and vibrancy. That’s why I recently looked for a few high-resolution source images, enhanced some of them with Adobe’s AI tool and created a few variants.

For #1, I based it on the vinyl sleeve of the Walmart exclusive “Ocean Blue” and “Clear” variant, which uses the same image as the official soundtrack CD, but ever so slightly tilted to the left to create a little more dynamic. They also use much smaller text, which allows the image motif to stand out much better.

Admittedly, #2 sports a relatively large field of view, but I needed the space at the top to make the white text legible against the light blue background without having to resort to drop shadows (which almost never look good). Also, a few shenanigans at the bottom, but not worth mentioning.

For #3, I was faced with the challenge of expanding a relatively large area at the top and bottom using Adobe’s “generative fill” tool. This tool is incredible, but it is still being constrained by some deliberate limitations on Adobe’s part. Specifically, the area generated by artificial intelligence is always the size of 1024×1024 pixels and is then simply scaled up, making the result blurry and of significantly lower quality than the original image. I had to conceal this fact using a little bit of field blur.

And finally, #5, which is based on the so-called Legacy Collection by Disney Records, but I took the liberty of using an alternative Moana logo instead of a plain text, because it just looks too good and I really wanted to use it within this collection.

#1: Moana (Remake)

#2: Moana (Remake)

#3: Moana (Custom)

#4: Moana (Custom)

#5: Moana (Custom)