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[kamomil]

I am having fun designing & planning my CDs & packaging. I bought a local indie artist's CD, and it is a Ridata unbranded CD, ever so cool! The info is stamped on with ink, ie with an old-school rubber stamp. I am so copying that idea, I don't like the idea of paper labels that might peel off. I think the Ridata CDs are inkjet-printable, but the best part is there is no huge logo to interfere with my own labelling.
I have found out a lot about how to get good colour xeroxing done from a Photoshop file. Thanks, ashendari! I made up a little mockup CD jewel case liner and insert, I am still fine-tuning my design.
I also have made up a database of community radio stations across Canada, fired up Filemaker Pro and... I almost liked fiddling with Filemaker best of all. I have a couple of festivals in my database too, literally two: I need to practice my music way more before I can consider myself a headlining act. However there is one festival that has an open mic. Scores!

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[teirin.livejournal.com]

Filemaker is fun. I'm (slowly) building a database of my books with it. The project is the ultimate expression of my geekdom.

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

I severely enjoyed making databases in Hypercard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard), which I will be very sad when I finally have a computer that is too new to run it. It handles dates better than Filemaker, well for one particular thing I was doing anyhow. I think that Macromedia Director stole a lot of its scripting language from Hypercard.

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

To minimize font headaches, I was going to rasterize everything and submit to them a 300 dpi bitmap file. However if it needs to be left CMYK, I will leave it as a Photoshop file.

Looks like everything I will be doing in colour, will also have some sort of photo, thus probably nothing in Illustrator for the CD jewel case inserts.

[jeffkahl.livejournal.com]

Home County Folk Festival (which happens in mid July) in London, ON has an open stage stage. If you feel like driving for upwards of two hours to go play at an open stage it's a good one! More info: http://www.homecounty.ca/festival/index.html

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out! Also, the Brampton Folk Festival will have an open stage, June 18, 5:00pm, at Gage Park, SW corner.