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  • March 29, 2015 at 3:45 pm #2164971
    bob6397
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    I might get shot down for this, but… Microsoft Publisher? It has a CD label default size and various templated and it is nice and easy to use.. If you already have it there would of course be no cost involved but otherwise this could be quite an expensive option..

    I don’t know any other.. I assume you have googled it..? 🙂

    bob63997

    March 29, 2015 at 3:49 pm #2164981
    James Lambie
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    Cheers Bob! will check it out. Yep, Googled it but wasn’t sure what terms to use really. Tried some, with little success. so thought I’d try the horse’s mouth.

    Just out of interest, why would you get shot down for it?

    March 30, 2015 at 9:37 am #2165511
    Lamid45G
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    I would invest in Adobe Photoshop, its great program for doing all that works and then some

    PS as far as a free program, if you have a windows based PC/laptop, if you lucky they sometimes bundled those with Microsoft Office, along with it its that little program called Microsoft PowerPoint, granted its not for making cover art or album art, but once you get past that, its pretty good for doing that task, and its not that hard to learn

    March 30, 2015 at 9:36 pm #2166081
    James Lambie
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    Fantastic tip, thanks Arnaldi. I’m on it.

    March 31, 2015 at 9:40 am #2166481
    deathy
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    If you want something professional looking, then you’re probably going to end up needing to learn to use a vector drawing program rather than a photo editing program. There’s a free/open source one called “Inkscape” that is pretty good.

    April 2, 2015 at 12:28 am #2167291
    James Lambie
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    Cheers Deathy for this, will check it out.

    April 2, 2015 at 8:27 am #2167731
    Quicknight
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    Hey guys,
    Since this topic was opened. Is there a way where you can convert an image to vector? Lets say I designed my logo in photoshop but I want to keep it as a vector?

    Is that possible?

    April 3, 2015 at 6:51 pm #2169181
    Guy Hagen
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    Yes- it can be done pretty easily in Illustrator. Just import your logo and trace over it with the pen tool- OR the same thing can be done automatically with the Live Trace command.

    April 3, 2015 at 9:20 pm #2169231
    Alex Moschopoulos
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    GIMP

    Pixlr.com

    April 8, 2015 at 3:29 pm #2172021
    Jessica DeClute
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    There is also another program called Firealpaca. It is free and can open and save .PSD file format (photoshop format). It seems very similar to PS, but I have not tried it yet, as I run an older version of Photoshop (CS2).

    You might be able to find a template on the web in a .PSD format and use this.

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