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How to create CD label using Photoshop IntroductionThis tutorial teaches you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a CD or DVD label for your compact disc copying project.The purpose of this tutorial is to transform a square (or rectangular) picture into a circle with the middle hole as shown below. Convert rectangular picturetocircle CD labelPicture SizeIt deserves a little bit math here before we continue. In Photoshop editing there are two numbers of interest, i.e picture resolution and number of pixels. To have a good print, normally require the artwork to have at least 300 DPI. What this means is that the density of dots that make up the picture will have 300 dots per inch. If you measure a compact disc you will find that the diameter is 120mm, and the artwork is normally 2mm away from the CD edge.
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Hence the diameter of the label should be 116mm. Because of the mixing of metric and imperial systems here we will need to do some conversion to get the proper number of pixels for our label artwork. Since 1 inch has 25.4mm, so the diameter of the label in inch will be 116 รท 25.4 = 4.567 inch. Since we require 1 inch to have 300 pixels, so the number of pixels for 4.567 inches will be 300 x 4.567 = 1370 pixels.We will use this magic number 1370 pixels later in the tutorial.
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Step 1: Look for the background pictureThere are plenty of resources where you can find pictures of interest. Is your best portal because it's free. And also provide royalty free photos. 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. Enlarging picture will make the picture blurry because the extra pixels need to be created by approximation. Step 2: Open the picture in PhotoshopStep 3: Resize the pictureResize the picture so that the smaller of the width and height equals to 1370.Step 4: Download and open the artwork templateDownload the from your and open it in Photoshop.Step 5: Copy and paste the template over the background pictureStep 6: Adjust the Opacity of template layerHighlight the template layer and adjust its Opacity making it semi-transparent.