I am required to set up a DVD template for my Digital Imaging software module. this template will provide defined areas for the front and back cover as well as the spine, it will also include a bleed area for quality assurance during the finishing stage.
The requirements are as follows:
•The printed paper sleeve for a standard DVD case can be printed on a standard A4 sheet of paper
•The size of the front and back panels of the case is 129.5mm × 183mm and spine panels have a width of 14mm or less.
•Bleed areas must be 3.175mm all around.
•Text and images should be at least 1.5875mm from any edge
•Projects need to be at least 300 DPI in the CMYK colour space
Open a new Photoshop project and set the canvas size as below
The overall width is calculates by adding together 2 of the cover widths for the front and back and a spine (14mm), some DVD cases will have different size spines.
129.5+129.5+14 = 273
Be sure to change the units to millimetres and the color mode to CMYK, then change the DPI to 300.
Enable rulers by clicking “rulers” on the view menu or hitting control + r on the keyboard.
First we will add guides to the centre to see the differentiation between the spine and the covers. The first one is easy, go to View – New guide and add a guide at 129.5mm, the next one we need to calculate by taking 129.5 from 273, add a guide to 143.5.
Add the following guides for text and image borders:
- 1.5875mm –vertical
- 1.5875mm – horizontal
- 271.4125mm – vertical
- 181.4125 – horizontal
- 127.9125 – vertical
- 131.0875 – vertical
- 141.9125 – vertical
- 145.0875 – vertical
Finally we are going to add a bleed area, first add guides to the edge of the canvas, if you click on a ruler and drag in this will create a guide, they will naturally snap to the edge of the canvas.
Once you have done this go to Image – Canvas and set it as shown, you can add colour to the bleed area here if you wish
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