Create CD or DVD labels easily using Photoshop and ready-to-print PDF templates
Pariah S. Burke
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You probably know that consistency is key to effective brand building and maintenance. This tutorial shows you how to create labels easily to ensure consistent production across the divisions of your company. You can also apply this technique to business cards, name badges, and other commonly used printed matter.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Adobe® Photoshop® to design a sheet of DVD or CD labels that fully reinforces your corporate brand, using your logo, your corporate colors, some decorative imagery, and editable type (for changing CD/DVD titles between projects). You might even include dummy or For Position Only (FPO) text standing in for actual titles.
Figure 1: A corporate CD/DVD template for use throughout the entire organization.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Prerequisite knowledge:
An understanding of and experience using Photoshop.
About the author
A 20-year graphic design and publishing veteran, Pariah S. Burke is the former trainer, Photoshop MVP, and Adobe InDesign®, Adobe InCopy®, and Adobe Illustrator® Technical Lead to Adobe's technical support team. He is the author or coauthor of three books on creative software, the writer of more than 200 published articles on graphic design and publishing and the tools and business practices of design and publishing, and the publisher of the highly respected websites Quark VS InDesign.com and Designorati.com.
