Create your own images for CD labels using Neato's free MediaFaceII software to print them.

You make your template first and save 'selection' to your 'selections' folder for continued use.  Find the MediaFaceII software at NEATO.COM and install it - you will need blank CD labels then use the TEMPLATE TUTORIAL to create the selection, then create the graphics for your labels.

Step 1
After you make your template, open a new image 713x713x150

 

Step 2
Set flood dill color to white because white doesn't print;  can set to other colors if you want to use that much ink.

 
 

Step 3
Here, you can vary the steps by either applying background images before loading the template selection or after - strictly a matter of personal choice - I do it both ways.  So, either flood fill with white, decorate and then load the template selection or

 
 

Step 4
Load the selection and then flood fill and decorate white area is selected.  I think I prefer the latter unless I intend to make matching case covers.

 
 

Step 5
If you designed before the template, you need to follow these steps so you can see where your boundaries are for adding the text  after loading the selection.  Invert the selection.

 
 

Step 6
Promote the selection.

 
 

Step 7
Your layer palette will look like this.

 
 

Step 8
Activate the Layer 1 by clicking on it.

 
 

Step 9
Delete the selected area.

 
 

Step 10
Hide the promoted selection while creating the text areas by clicking on the glasses on that layer.

 
 

Step 11
Deselect  by 'selecting none'.

 
 

Step 12
Add a new layer and add the text you want to the label.

 
 

Step 13
Now I do the fine tuning of the label graphic.  I don't like the images too dark when I put text over them, so I decreased the opacity on the image layer and the hidden layer to the same degree of opacity then click on the glasses for the hidden layer to see the overall effect for the case cover.

 
 

Step 14
I think the opacity is about right here.

 
 

Step 15
Now I can merge the layers for a final look before saving,  this is something I generally do when working with less than 100% opacity just so I don't get a surprise after I save and close the graphics image.

 
 

Step 16
Your image is HOPEFULLY 150 dpi, so save it to the Neato images in the 150 dpi folder.  The 150dpi gives you a better print quality than 72 dpi and Neato doesn't use the better printer quality of 300dpi - it doesn't know how to handle it!  LOL

Now your image is done and all you have to do is load your labels in the printer, Open the label program and load your image as the background for the label, print it out and apply it, hopefully using the Neato application tool to keep the label centered perfectly.

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Tutorial by CSGreen
 

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