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kamomil ([personal profile] kamomil) wrote2005-05-19 07:38 am

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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, [livejournal.com profile] 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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[identity profile] kamomil.livejournal.com 2005-05-19 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.