Merriweather Post Pavilion artwork (including book art)
NOTE: Previews are not the hi-quality images. You have to download the images at the corresponding mediafire links. http://www.mediafire.com/?dzlklg0ttkfyozz MPP Background (without green leaves) Resolution: 3,300 x 2,479; DPI: 119 Preview:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4fnmw2uhigqjoq5
MPP Full artwork
Resolution: 3,300 x 2,479; DPI: 119
Preview: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?lwnngzjjqfmm2wj
Swimmer girl
Resolution: 3,201 x 2,405; DPI: 291
Preview: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?zigl2htzzzjtozz
Merriweather Leaves
Resolution: 3,300 x 2,479; DPI: 119
Preview: 
So basically, I had the AAC PDF file that came with the iTunes version of Merriweather Post Pavilion. Whenever it loaded, I noticed that the background of the green leaves showed up first by itself, and then the green leaves loaded. This lead me to believe that the image was a layered image. I spent the next hour messing around in Adobe Acrobat, exporting the image as different things -- trying to figure out how to crack the layering.
I then tried exporting the image as an Encapsulated Postscript. This allowed me to edit the image with all its layers in Adobe Illustrator. I then spent about 10 minutes trying to find out how to display the layers of the image, and eventually I did find all the layers. There were thousands of them. I'm talking like five for each individual leaf. After another five minutes I realized how to quickly trash them all except for the background, which was the last layer.
Now, every time I exported it as a JPG, it never came out in good quality. So I exported it as a PNG on the highest settings, each time creating images that were 6 megs. I opened them in MS Paint, cropped them and copied the cropped image to Adobe Photoshop where I saved it as a perfect JPEG.
For the album artwork itself, it was quite easy to manipulate the image and remove that white box of text, so if you wondering how I got the artwork without the annoying white box with Animal Collective's name and the album name in it -- that's how. Simply deleting the image.
I dunno about you, but I'm definitely making a poster out of that psychedelic swimmer.
NOTE: Previews are not the hi-quality images. You have to download the images at the corresponding mediafire links. http://www.mediafire.com/?dzlklg0ttkfyozz MPP Background (without green leaves) Resolution: 3,300 x 2,479; DPI: 119 Preview:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4fnmw2uhigqjoq5
MPP Full artwork
Resolution: 3,300 x 2,479; DPI: 119
Preview:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lwnngzjjqfmm2wj
Swimmer girl
Resolution: 3,201 x 2,405; DPI: 291
Preview:
So basically, I had the AAC PDF file that came with the iTunes version of Merriweather Post Pavilion. Whenever it loaded, I noticed that the background of the green leaves showed up first by itself, and then the green leaves loaded. This lead me to believe that the image was a layered image. I spent the next hour messing around in Adobe Acrobat, exporting the image as different things -- trying to figure out how to crack the layering.
I then tried exporting the image as an Encapsulated Postscript. This allowed me to edit the image with all its layers in Adobe Illustrator. I then spent about 10 minutes trying to find out how to display the layers of the image, and eventually I did find all the layers. There were thousands of them. I'm talking like five for each individual leaf. After another five minutes I realized how to quickly trash them all except for the background, which was the last layer.
Now, every time I exported it as a JPG, it never came out in good quality. So I exported it as a PNG on the highest settings, each time creating images that were 6 megs. I opened them in MS Paint, cropped them and copied the cropped image to Adobe Photoshop where I saved it as a perfect JPEG.
For the album artwork itself, it was quite easy to manipulate the image and remove that white box of text, so if you wondering how I got the artwork without the annoying white box with Animal Collective's name and the album name in it -- that's how. Simply deleting the image.
I dunno about you, but I'm definitely making a poster out of that psychedelic swimmer.
PS y'all: it was calvin who posted the other thread
and unless i missed some other, more recent thread, this is the first time we've actually seen what's behind it. so, thanks calvin!