Cover art

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Hi to all

Ok this is a stupid question !!! What softwares people are using for covers ???
All i want to have as a cover is some kind of backgraund and a logo of a project and on the other side a few pics & titles What should i use ??? Thanx
 
Well, speaking as a graphic designer with over 20 years of experience, the question is kinda like asking, "All I want to do is play Dust in the Wind," but you don't know how to play guitar.

Not dissing you, just explaining that it's a little more complicated.

How are you having you CD covers printed? Through a local printer, someone online, through someone like DiscMakers?

Do you understand the difference between CMYK and RGB?

Do you know what the proper dpi is for the line screen you'll be using?

Have you considered just saving yourself a lot of grief and hiring either a local graphic designer or someone from online, like elance? (you can find people there that take on projects relatively inexpensively). They can set the project up for you so it correctly works with whomever you chose to print it.

But, to answer your question: I use a combination of (Adobe) InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat (mainly for compressing my final files to go to the printer). As for fonts, I only use Adobe Type 1 (never TrueType) to go to printers.

Hope that helps.
 
lukicore said:
Hi to all

Ok this is a stupid question !!! What softwares people are using for covers ???
All i want to have as a cover is some kind of backgraund and a logo of a project and on the other side a few pics & titles What should i use ??? Thanx
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The answer to this depends on how complicated you want to get.

It is quite easy to develop cover art in just about any word processing package (e.g. MS Word, Open Office Writer and so on). These packages don't offer the level of sophistication that, say Adobe products offer.

The simplest option is to work up something in Word (say), and print it off on your printer. Quality is ok (depending on your printer and the paper you use). Permanence is not. More durable results can be obtained by taking your file on a USB stick to a printing firm and get them to do colour laser copies (so long as they have the application that you use). Or you can print to a PDF file and take that to a printer.

Full-colour professional printing is another level of complexity again. The technicalities needn't concern you that much if you develop a good relationship with the printer; they will look after that. But the cost could hurt your pocket.

None of this, though, guarantees a good-looking cover. That depends on the skill and artistic eye of the designer. Some people are fortunate to have both an artistic eye and knowledge of how to convert an idea onto paper. Maybe you are in that group. Maybe not.

Best of luck!
 
I use Adobe Illustrator and also Adobe Photoshop, in combination. I bought older versions off of eBay for cheap. Compared to music it's not difficult.
 
why dont you just ask a talented artist of any sort to do it for you. youre not painting the mona lisa here. hell, you can go all out kindergarten with some scissors, paper, glue and a xerox if it's that simple. get someone with a fancy printer to scan you a copy of it, or kinkos, or w/e really. some glossy thing if thats what youre lookin for

im assuming this is for a band of yours or something, so im sure youve gotta have a creative bone in your body

to answer your question theyre doing whatever the heck they wanna do

the question is, why dont you do the same?

throw caution to the wind and wing that shit like a pro

no offence
 
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