CD Cover Design
 

Just made a CD cover for a mixed CD I'm about to burn for myself. I've been making these "Riffs of Hate" compilations on cassette since high school, but this is the first one I'll do on CD.

This is a large image...full CD jacket dimensions. jpg has been compressed to a manageable 184KB, though.

http://www.amsbaugh.com/aan/Ger/RoH-cover.jpg

Lemme know what I should change design-wise. I don't care if you like any of the bands on the CD or not...that's not what I'm looking for in a critique.

I like the tunes on the CD...that's all that matters to me. rock:

I like it. The font used for the track listing might be hard to read once printed out possibly...?

looks awesome- sorta agree with the font

Shouldnt be no worries if ya got a colorlaser though.
But then again, they arent exactly cheap. biggrin:

Lookin good though.

The original looks much crisper (the jpg compression undoubtedly fudged that font a bit).

The colour printer I have will print that out fine when it's 300dpi and uncompressed, instead of 72dpi and compressed like a mofo.

Thanks for the comments tho...keep 'em coming.

i really like it..good stuff zoner

you could loose the bevel on the "hate" text, maybe even change the font.

nice work though.

Yeah, I was going for a stamped in/shattered look on the "HATE". The inner bevel never looks too great, but I'm guessing that won't be too glaring once it's printed.

I like how the spin breaks apart behind 'hate'

Id' change the font on the back dude.

I like...though blind guardian > iced earth.

designing cd covers is a blast
ive done so many

i like the riffs of hate part a lot, but i think it would look better with a warmer
color scheme, like more orange than pink

i think senor vorhees would make a good covergirl for one of these cds, you should let him in

Hrm...that might be an idea...heh

I'll tinker with the back cover font. That list isn't the final one anyway...some Blind Guardian might creep in there.

Thanks dudes.

v2.0

http://www.amsbaugh.com/aan/Ger/RoH-cover2.jpg

That better?

Yeah, id say it is.
Still, dunno how that beveled "Hate" will come out. biggrin:

Yeah, we'll see. The CD is just for me anyway. biggrin:

EDIT: Just reduced the blur on the bevel. Look better? Might need to refresh the page when you load it up to get the latest version.

Yeah, that looks like it did the trick.

Schweeeet. Thanks for the input, mang. rock:

like your new sig man, shame guinness tastes like coffee oOo:

Kilkenny's the stuff. Shame its weak though.. annoy:

It kinda does when you first start drinking it. After a while, it tastes like "Guinness".

...and I like coffee, so it's win-win! rock:

actually im going to make a stella sig, been sort of ideas on ps stuff recently. cool:

Kilkenny and Stella rock. Smithwick's is awesome too. Mind you, don't waltz into a bar and ask for a "Smith Wicks"...you might get knocked the fuck out.

Pronounce it "Smiddicks". There's Zone's drinking lesson for the day, kiddies. biggrin:

dont think its worthy for a thread of its own but here, i scanned my last can left from last night and put me name on it biggrin:

waht type of beers are kilkenny and smithwicks? bitter esc?

Kilkenny = Irish Red Beer. Brewed in Kilkenny and Dublin, 4.3 vol. %...

Smithwick's: http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002156.php

Posting to express my approval of the Guinness sig.

Thanks! ...and here you are.

[img]http://www.stg.org/images/holiday_old/st.pats/guinness.gif[/img]

If only that were real.

very schwank cd cover and

[img]http://www.amsbaugh.com/aan/zoner-guinnesssig.jpg[/img]

= rock:

guiness used to have some pretty sweet images on their site but they have since taken them down and i cant find them anywhere (the one i am talking about is a pint with the harp on the front in a close up which was a very tasty looking pic)

I found some really nice high-res images when I searched for "Guinness" on Google Images.

(Not being sarcastic...it's the truth)