Photoshop Vinyl Cover Effect

What are standard album cover dimensions.

Photoshop vinyl cover effect.

In this design tutorial i will be taking you through my process for creating a futuristic space age album cover in photoshop. This vinyl record and cover mockup featuring a modern design come in 8 psd files with different perspectives. This is just a really basic idea for fun we cover other more advanced designs in other tutorials. To create our album cover we will be using.

Love and funk album cover. These mockups are fully customizable in photoshop making it super easy for you to add your own covers and label by simply editing the smart layer or dropping a jpg into the specified layer. I reduced the opacity to about 40 to make the effect more subtle. We will create our cover design using elements from artistmef honnum graphic art and rulebyart along with a free vinyl cover mockup to complete the scene.

Crop the image to a square shape to it looks more like an album. For print you would obviously want to use a high resolution 300dpi. Cd booklets and covers tend to be around 4 75 inches by 4 75 inches. The standard cd cover dimensions are at least 1600 x 1600 pixels in size with a dpi of 300.

Begin by opening adobe photoshop and create a new document that is 7 5 inches wide by 7 5 inches tall with an rgb color mode and a resolution of 300 ppi. Each file contains fully layered smart objects which means you can easily customize the files using photoshop cs4 or higher. These dimensions will not only ensure your cd cover prints at the correct size but also guarantee a crisp clear quality. Lets make a cd cover.

Create a new document with a minimum size of 1600 x 1600 pixels and a dpi of 300. As such you will want to create a new document in photoshop with those dimensions. This is a usable photo effect right here let s move on and create a basic cd cover. Let s also take a moment to name our file here i will name my file love and funk album cover design but feel free to call it anything.

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