Friday, 22 May 2015

Adobe illustrator DVD Lable.



First I created a new file in Adobe illustrator.
Making sure it was 300 pixels per inch. With a high and wide of a least 20cm
using the ellipse tool + ctrl key I drew a circle in scale. 116mm x 116mm


made a new art board of 20cm by 20cm
then used the ellipse tool while holding the shift key to make a even circle.
I then changed its height a wide options at the top to 116mm x116mm

 
Then using the ellipse tool again I drew anew circle from the centre while holding shift and alt. this circle was then created from centre of my original. At the top once again I changed it size this time to 23mm x 23mm.

I then also made another circle using the same method as before but 5mm wider that the original circle to make a printer bleeding edge.

These were then duplicated.

With the duplicated selected I right clicked and made them into guides.
 


Next for the background I used the rectangle tool and willed it using the gradient option. The gradient going from black to grey, from top to bottom.  I then moved this is to the back by right clicking on it arrange-move to back.
Next I made three boxes with rounded edges from below the ellipse tool box, and filled with a gradient going from white to black using the gradient handle to move the end point of the gradient.

These where then arranged in minimalistic way, this was to help break up the dark background.





I then loaded in the vector for Cloud Imperium Games that had cut out from the background earlier.
And Placed, it on the top of the disk image.

The logos for Squadron 42, Star Citizen and DVD Rom logo were then loaded in to the image these are originally white so I selected them and changed it colour from white to black and made sure the boarder was left invisible.

These were then moved down to the grey area of the gradient back ground. To make them stand out.





To make the curved text I used the clicked on the ellipse that I had near the bleeding edge. Then by using the slice tool, I cut at both the left hand and the right hand points.
now using the text tool I put the curser on the semi-circle when the icon changed to a circle with the txt logo left click the mouse now the text was being written along the path.

next I changed to font to hans solo again. I then dragged the lines at the end of the text to get it to sit evenly along the path. I then dragged the text up so it was written along the inside of the guild line.

I then used the square tool to make a box that covered the page. . I loaded the pathfinder from the window table at the top. Having the outside path selected along with the white box I used the exclude pathfinder to reveal the CD design below.


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