Recently, HP and Gwen Stefani teamed up to offer fans some pretty cool printables. The styles of artwork range from just plain cute to downright pretty - but being me, I wasn't going to be happy until I'd played around with coming up with that same style all on my own.
In this guide, we'll use the basic art created in the previous tutorial and add to it some key elements that will grace our CD label and CD case covers with some serious style - you'll want to hit my page to find the guide on creating the basic art.
When you hit my page, if you have trouble finding the guide you're looking for, try using "Ctrl" + "F" on your keyboard. This will pull up a search box. In the search box, type "Album Art" and hit the "Find Next" button. It'll pull up, I promise.
To use this guide, you'll need a copy of Adobe Photoshop (versions 7 through the current CS3 will work) or a comparable program like GIMP. Beyond that, all that you need is a little bit of time on your hands.
Design Album Art - The Steps
For this guide, we're going to be emulating the look of one of Gwen Stefani's sets, the red "Love Is My Homegirl" one. We're going to be using the basic art we created in the previous tutorial for this, just to save time.
1. The Text: We're starting here because the text is something that will be added to each piece of the album art, so we might as well fix it up now. It's also very easy. You'll want to make a new canvas (File, New) that is sized 1000 x 1000 pixels, 300 pixels/inch resolution, in RGB mode with a white background. Then, using your favorite "fat" font, type out the slogan you want on each of your album art pieces. You'll want the text to be white, and then add a 5-10 pixel black stroke to it. (To add a stroke, go to "Layer", choose "Style", and select "Stroke". Change the color to black and the width to somewhere between 5 & 10 pixels, depending on your font and what you like).
2. The CD Labels: Moving up a step in the "easy" department are the CD Labels. If you don't have a label template that you can use to base size on, you can grab one from Avery - just scroll down to download the label.
In this guide, we'll use the basic art created in the previous tutorial and add to it some key elements that will grace our CD label and CD case covers with some serious style - you'll want to hit my page to find the guide on creating the basic art.
To use this guide, you'll need a copy of Adobe Photoshop (versions 7 through the current CS3 will work) or a comparable program like GIMP. Beyond that, all that you need is a little bit of time on your hands.
Design Album Art - The Steps
For this guide, we're going to be emulating the look of one of Gwen Stefani's sets, the red "Love Is My Homegirl" one. We're going to be using the basic art we created in the previous tutorial for this, just to save time.
1. The Text: We're starting here because the text is something that will be added to each piece of the album art, so we might as well fix it up now. It's also very easy. You'll want to make a new canvas (File, New) that is sized 1000 x 1000 pixels, 300 pixels/inch resolution, in RGB mode with a white background. Then, using your favorite "fat" font, type out the slogan you want on each of your album art pieces. You'll want the text to be white, and then add a 5-10 pixel black stroke to it. (To add a stroke, go to "Layer", choose "Style", and select "Stroke". Change the color to black and the width to somewhere between 5 & 10 pixels, depending on your font and what you like).
2. The CD Labels: Moving up a step in the "easy" department are the CD Labels. If you don't have a label template that you can use to base size on, you can grab one from Avery - just scroll down to download the label.
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