Make a Mixtape Cover in Photoshop

Open Photoshop and click "File," then click "New." Name the file "MyTape" and set the "Width" to be nine inches and the cut to be three inches. Set a "Resolution" of 300, a "Mode" of "CMYK Color," and click the "White" button under "Contents," then click the "OK" button.

Click the "Line" tool in the "Tools" palette. If you don't see the line, to look at for a rectangle, star or ring and right-click it, then to choose "Line Tool." those tools all leaves the same space in the palette. aspiration a vertical line of the 4 inch mark on the regulate across the top of your "MyTape" box. aspiration another line come down of the 5 inch mark. Don't concern if the lines are straight---you'll be elimination them. They're just to separated the Bandage cover, spine and back for now.

Click the "New Layer" icon, the bent post-it note, in the "Layers" pallets on the right-hand side of the screen. A new Sleep 1 appears; right-click it and chosen "Layer Properties." retitrer the Sleep to "Cover." repetition this two more times, nomination the new layers "Spine" and "Back."

(Optional) Click the "File" menu and chosen "Open," then to review to any photographs or images you to want to add to the cover of the mixtape. Double-click the photograph so it appears on your workspace, then click the "Select" menu at the top of the screen and to choose "Select All." Press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys on your keyboard. Click the "Cover" Sleep on the "Layers" palette, then press the "Ctrl" and "V" keys on the keyboard, which pastes the image to the cover. Click the "Move" tool, which look at like a black arrow head and cross mark, on the "Tools" palette, to movement the image in the left third of the "MyTape" box.

Add other images or aspiration using the Photoshop "Paintbrush" or "Pencil" tools. Click the "Text" tool, which look at like a "T," and notification the new bar tool holder at the top of the screen. chosen a font, cut and color, then click on the left side of the "MyTape" box. Your cursor turns in a Flickering line. Type the name of the mix Bandage and any other information such as a attachment or description of the music.

Click the "Back" Sleep on the "Layers" pallets to to give it focus, then click the "Text" tool again. Add information for the back cover of the mix tape, such as the song list.

Click the "Spine" Sleep in the "Layers" palette, then click the "Text" tool and type the information for the spine, such as the titrate of the mixtape or your name. Don't concern that the text is horizontal right-hand side now. Click the "Edit" menu, then click "Transform" and to choose "Rotate." Use your mouse to rotation the spine titrate 90 degrees.

(Optional) Click the "Background" Sleep at the bottom of the "Layers" palette. Click the "Fill" tool, which look at like a tipping painting can, on the "Tools" palette. On the new bar tool holder at the top, Traction down the "Fill" menu and chosen "Pattern." Then Traction down the "Pattern" menu and to choose a model for the melts of your Bandage cover. Click one to chosen it, then planed flight your mouse above the "MyTape" box; notification the cursor look at like the painting can. Click once in the box and your cover sufficiencies with a pattern.

Right-click the "Shape" Sleep in the "Layers" pallets and chosen "Delete Layer." Click "Yes" at the pop-up box.

Click the right-pointing triangle in a ring at the top of the "Layers" pallets and chosen "Flatten Image." Then to save the file by to click "File," choice "Save As" and to give the "MyTape" a destination on your computer.