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Students will design and create a colour CD cover insert using Fireworks
READ THE WHOLE ASSIGNMENT BEFORE STARTING!
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
•choose the appropriate environment in which to create a document incorporating colour text and graphics sized and aligned precisely; and,
•plan, design, and create a precisely sized and aligned CD cover insert.
Procedure:
Part A: Getting Started
1. Your task in this assignment is to design and create a colour insert for a CD cover.
2. Since you now should know how to use Fireworks MX you will get a minimum of instruction from this lesson; you must solve your own problems and be creative!
3. Here are the specifications for the CD Cover Insert:
•Front Cover: Exactly 12 cm x 24 cm rectangle (will be folded in half to form a 12cm x 12cm square, which will fit into tabs on CD jewel case cover)
•Back Cover: Exactly 11.7 cm x 15 cm rectangle (will go inside back of CD jewel case). Use thin vertical lines 60 pixels from each end to indicate fold lines for ends of CD cases. Note: The Back Cover is a separate file!
•Colour: CD Cover should be in colour, unless black and white (grayscale) is part of your design theme.
•Front of cover has name of band and title of CD.
•Inside front of cover has liner notes. e.g. "Recorded at Apple Studios, London", band member biographical info, photos, etc.
•Back of cover lists songs, songwriter, band members, "Thanks to", copyright, and so on.
•Back and front incorporate colour graphics (unless black and white (grayscale) is part of your design theme).
You can either make up the name of your band, band members (use yourself and friends if you like), songs, record company, etc., use a real band for which you wish to design a new CD cover, or make up a compilations CD title. You may not copy and paste a CD cover from the web, nor scan one.
IDEA: Make up a pseudonym for your favourite band/singer.
Part B: Some Hints
• Set your resolution to 200 dpi so that your finished cd cover prints relatively sharp.
• Include vector and bitmap objects, imported photos, and text.
• Lots of colour clipart is available on our server. Ask how.
• For the front cover, draw a thin vertical line at 12 cm so you know where the fold will be located.
•For the back cover, draw a thin vertical line at 60 pixels from each end so you know where the folds will be located.
•NOTE: One fold on the front. Two folds on the back. Put the fold lines on separate layers and lock them in place so you can't move them by accident.
• Have fun!
Part C: Here's an example:
FRONT
Notice how the front of the insert is on the right, so when it is folded, it will insert fold-first into the CD cover.
BACK
Notice that each end of the back cover has a small fold 60 pixels from the edge which, once installed in the jewel case, will show on the ends of the jewel case (like the spine of a book).
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This page updated by Ken Woodward on February 14, 2005.
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