2013/12/23

Posted by z. On December 23, 2013


I want to share here my few ideas for making CD/DVD cover picture. After four steps you will have a simple design. The main thing here is that we gonna use fully functional graphic applications. Today there's a lot of utilities for making CD/DVD cover design, but thay have limited functionality. For example, you can't insert picture into a clipping mask or put text to custom free path. I use open-source free applications, and they're really easy-to-use and sometimes they have even better instruments than their analogs. It's Gimp and Inkscape. To make the simplest version of this cover you just have to install Inkscape. With it you'll be able to make a finished design and print it as a photography. Using GIMP you can edit inserted images and add custom effects.

InkScape download link: http://inkscape.org/en/download/
GIMP download link: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

16 MB sized zip-package with source IncScape files, required fonts, custom GIMP settings and other additions: https://app.box.com/s/hd77bxmpr93prpv93id2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvA5_dmSh2w

I made this cover in the same steps and with the same software. This is a cover for tonux.gix's new experimental music album. I'm one of tonux.gix members and I participated in this project too.
We wanted this cover to look a little bit like something "home made". Everything that tries to look like "professional" wants to please everybody. We thought that it doesn't make sense to us. We wanted it to look more cozy and warm...

Check it if you want - we use this music as soundtrack for video-screencapture showing our biggest absolutely crazy project - Nux 3d interactive enviro.

 If you are ready to start your cover picture, go: http://blotproject.blogspot.com/2013/12/cddvd-cover-tut.html

 

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