Step-By-Step
- 1. How To Make A CD Cover This slide show will show a step-by-step guide on how to create a professional CD cover using Photoshop CS4. Slide Show Made By Tyrone.
- 2. The First Step: The 1st step is very simple. I needed to start off by selecting: File > New The next thing that I needed to do is select the measurement, and select “inches” from the drop down menu. The measurements for a CD inserts are “4.724 x 4.724”. Next I needed to do was select the “pixels/inch” option from the drop down menu, and type in “300”. This will make the overall resolution of the image, better and much more crisp.
- 3. The Second Step: To make our front cover, I started by trying to make our CD to flow along with the style of our website to create a house style. Therefore I began with creating a border around the frame. I done this by selecting the rectangle tool. This was the final product. The next thing to do was select the shape in the “Layers”, and rasterize it so that I could be able to work with the shape, making it easier to manipulate it and apply other objects to it. To do this: Right Click Shape > Rasterize Layer
- 4. The Third Step: I then wanted to insert text onto the Selecting the Move Tool, it allowed cover. To do this I went to the text me to move the text around the icon, selected it, then selected the canvas. And this will work for text, area that I wished to insert the text. shapes, and images. When you select the text option, the over head tiles change into these options above. First I needed to change the text to white, to make sure that I am able to see it, so I selected the Colour tool, and selected white. Next I wanted to change the text Font, so I highlighted the text and selected an appropriate text style. Then I needed to re-adjust the text Size. Again, highlight the text and then select (or input) a desired sized font.
- 5. The Fourth Step: I also wanted to insert an image into the canvas. All I had to do was just drag and drop the image into to the canvas. This then put the image as a new .psd (Photoshop file). Then I wanted to only have the character in the picture, so by selecting the lasso tool I was able to select the character. The next step was to put the selected character onto a separate layer. To do this: Right Click Character > Layer via Cut Then, to hide the layer, I went over to the layers tab and by selecting (and deselecting) the eye icon, it hides that selected layer. By doing this it separated the character from the previous image. To delete the other layers: Right Click Layer (In layer tab) > Delete Layer To this layer into the original document, select the layer, and drag across into the other document. This then will show up as its own layer.
- 6. The Fifth Step: I wanted to then experiment and see what filters do with the image. So I went into the filter gallery (with the image layer selected) and then played around with different layers until I found an appropriate one for the CD cover. Playing around with the different settings I was able to find an appropriate setting. Using the sliders on the side, it allows you to change the settings of that specified filter, and also, selecting the different folders will show different filters all with unique settings.
- 7. The Final Product: This is the final edited version of the front CD cover. I included the logo, the name of the band, the song name, and also moved the image around. To be able to create a final product, it involves a lot of experimenting with different effects, styles, and also positioning.