This challenge is for you to print your own DVD labels using Qimage Ultimate exclusively!
You will need a package of round CD/DVD label paper to print your actual labels.
Handy to make your own template, this is also handy for your measurements of the diameter of the circles as well as the location on the page.
You can use any piece of paper for a test until you get the label paper!Otherwise, you can use the one provided in Qimage. It is designed for an 8.5 x 11 sheet called Full Coverage, 2 UP. (This is the small hole label.)
In making your own DVD labels, you will be able to make them for your music CDs, home movies, archived images, even scanning original cds or DVDs and printing the scans onto the labels.
1) You will be able to make any color background for your label
2) Any color text; any size text
3) use any image
My Steps!
1) (Do this first!)
Sort of like when you buy one of those office chairs that you have to put together, and the instructions say, "insert bolt 'G" into hole 'C', screw on matching nut 'H', BUT DO NOT TIGHTEN at this time!
1a) Open Print properties, and click CUSTOM.
At this time put a dot in Specific Size, and set that to 4.75 x 4.75 inches.
OK out and you will see 4.75 x 4.75 squares on your preview panel.
1b) I set up my driver for a good matte paper selection, Quality = Speed, and Color = Vivid.
1c) (Then I save it as a printer setup for printing DVDs)
*(Now whenever you want to make a DVD label, open RECALL, recall the Print setup for it. Not only will you have the correct print size set, but the printer will be set too.)
2) In Qimage: Go to Custom in print properties, a dot in Layout, click OK and select the template for the DVDs. (Now included with the Standard premade Layouts). DVD2on1.tpl
This will place the labels on the sheet correctly to match the Neato- Fellowes DVD labels.
(2 UP Full Coverage) (Most popular)
** See footnote
3) Now it's time to drag an image to use for printing the label.
3a) If you are making a custom label with a list of songs, or a list of Archived image folders, you might want a plain white or a colored background.
You can download a white background from the internet, or just shoot a picture of something white.
Then, in the editor, go to SEL COLOR, and make a small adjustment to the bottom row; NEUTRAL.
Customize by changing the 1.0 to a 0.7 or similar!
Do a File SAVE AS... and you have a custom colored backgound.
Made a gold one. See image 1 with red arrows.
4) If you want an image on your label, simply drag it onto the reddish template.
See snaps 2,5,and 6.
4a) See red template snap. This is what you should see just before you drag your image on to it.
5) Here's the fun part!
Open the Image editor
There's your image. Looks wrong for a round label.
Select a cutout called OVAL.TIF (or if you want to see a guide where the punch hole is for the label) use CDDVD FULL.TIF for the cutout.
6) Tick the little Crop box with an x, and there you are.
Click DONE.
Turn on your printer and print your own labels.
7) If you wish to add text, go into the Page Editor and add your Floating text (avoiding the center where the hole in the paper will be.) See snaps 3 & 4.
You Can, if you wish;
Save the whole thing as a JOB, and you can recall the JOB and it will have opened the correct template, the print size, the printer setup.. et al.
** Some printers may handle the paper slightly different so the printing may not fall exactly centered on the label paper.
To Correct this,
Recall L Layouts, and choose your DVD2 on 1 Tpl.
'Recall' is used on Layouts only for adjusting.
The layout will open in Qimage and by using the Page Editor, you can tweak the positions by using the arrow keys. Then from the main screen, SAVE as a renamed TPL.
Have fun..
Fred
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