Layout Night
Sep. 9th, 2025 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI am blessed by having Adobe Illustrator and a fairly standard way of laying out my CDs. This one is a little different, because it's a double CD, but they're all digipaks nowadays and as long as I'm in the four-panel layout, it's really pretty easy to grab the cookie cutter and get to work.
Fonts though. Fonts are a thing. I own a great many fonts and finding the right ones for a particular cover can be a challenge. I went through several iterations before finding something that I felt happy with.
I still need a cover photo. And I still need to lay out the individual CD templates, although that is high on the "piece of cake" scale.
And of course, I still need to do the final trims on all of the songs and the assembling of the masters.
But this is looking more and more like an album every day.
And that's a good thing.
Fonts though. Fonts are a thing. I own a great many fonts and finding the right ones for a particular cover can be a challenge. I went through several iterations before finding something that I felt happy with.
I still need a cover photo. And I still need to lay out the individual CD templates, although that is high on the "piece of cake" scale.
And of course, I still need to do the final trims on all of the songs and the assembling of the masters.
But this is looking more and more like an album every day.
And that's a good thing.