This will marquee select the white area of the template.Ĭhoose from the menu bar and then choose. With the semi-transparent template as a guide, type in the necessary text so that it won't be outside of template boundary and won't fall into the center non-printable hub area.Ĭhoose the from the palette and point it to the white area of the template. Step 7: Move the template to right positionĬhoose the from the palette and with the template layer highlighted, you can use the and arrow keys to move the template to position you want. Doing so will allow you to see through the template to reveal the background picture and the template becomes a guide for you to see where the other assets be put. Highlight the template layer and adjust its Opacity making it semi-transparent. Step 6: Adjust the Opacity of template layer Step 5: Copy and paste the template over the background picture
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Step 4: Download and open the artwork templateĭownload the CD label artwork template from your CD replication service provider and open it in Photoshop. Resize the picture so that the smaller of the width and height equals to 1370. Enlarging picture will make the picture blurry because the extra pixels need to be created by approximation. Try to find pictures that has the smaller of the width and height larger than 1370 pixels so you won't have to enlarge the picture. gettyimages ® also provide royalty free photos. Google image is your best portal because it's free. There are plenty of resources where you can find pictures of interest. We will use this magic number 1370 pixels later in the tutorial.
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What this means is that the density of dots that make up the picture will have 300 dots per inch. To have a good print, compact disc replicators normally require the artwork to have at least 300 DPI. In Photoshop editing there are two numbers of interest, i.e picture resolution and number of pixels. It deserves a little bit math here before we continue. The purpose of this tutorial is to transform a square (or rectangular) picture into a circle with the middle hole as shown below.
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This tutorial teaches you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a CD or DVD label for your compact disc copying project. How to create CD label using Photoshop Introduction