Subtitles of the Movie

In this lesson we're going to finish our CD packaging project by creating our CD disk art. Let's open up my sample so we can take a look at it. There it is. It's fairly simple. I took elements from the front cover of the disk, applied them onto the CD and then put a title, my artist name, the year, and then the credits. Really it can even be simpler than this. Let's open up Chris Cornell's CD again and you can see that it's fairly stark. It's got elements of the front cover, you can see the highlights there of the light effect, but really the emphasis is on his name and the album title. And the secret here, again, is to use a template so you know exactly what dimensions you need to use. So let's open that up. We can open up the jpg file so we can see the details here which read, you know, information about silk screening, and about errors on the margins, information about half-tone images, and so forth. You want to really read this carefully so that the manufacturer you're working with you will create just the right CD for them to be able to manufacture. And here you've got all the detailed dimensions down to the nearest millimeter. This is very helpful and useful so let's open up the Photoshop version and then get started. I'm simply going to take my front cover, open that up and copy the selection from that. So we're going to hide our text to make sure I don't copy it. Then we have a decision to make, whether we want to include the dark background which makes this sphere stand out a little more, or just include the sphere, or perhaps just the sky. So I think I'm going to choose to include the artwork as it is on the front cover, make my selection tool a circle, and then just select what I need. Let's just draw that out, and now I can drag it to a little bit better location. Once you get there if it's still not large enough, two selections modify, expand and a number of pixels. Let's choose ten. That way I get a little bit of border around that. And you can zoom in and out and make sure that you're not clipping anything that you want. You can, in fact, you don't even have to select a circle. I could select a square or rectangle, paste it on here, and then delete outside of the area that I don't want to submit. It really doesn't matter which way you do it. I think I'm going to go straight for the circle though. I've selected now and I'm going to press Control shift C, which is copy merged, and I'm going to go to my template and edit, paste as new layer. Choose the pick tool, drag it around and you can see it fits nicely where it should. If you need to expand it a little bit, just take the drag handle there and enlarge it, so. I find it useful to lower the opacity here, to help nudge things just in the right position, and then use my arrow keys to really fine tune that. And now I can bring that opacity back up and lower it again. Now if I need to delete outside of that area I'll make a selection from the center of that and try to just cover the border, zoom in, right click and drag that selection to the appropriate spot with vectors, this is much nicer because you can actually center them in a canvas, a little bit harder this way, but that's okay .That looks pretty close, now I'm going to select the invert to that, choose my artwork layer and delete. There we go. So this really is the basis of our CD cover. Create a new vector layer just to help myself out and I'm going to create a circle where the center is so that I know that I can't have any artwork there. If you mistakenly create the circle with the wrong colors, select it with the pick tool, select object properties and now turn off the stroke and change the fill color to whatever you like. There we go. Now again, I can zoom in, fine tune the size, center it over the hole, change the opacity so I can see underneath. That looks to be about right. This then will be my guide in addition to the outside of my sphere to placing the text so I know I'm not going to put any text on the inside of that green circle. All right. I think I will forego adding the text because of time, but you should now be able to create your own CD disk art.