17. How to put a picture onto a CD DVD cover

Even if you are not a professional musician or filmmaker, you may need to read this article from A to Z. We’ve analyzed the demand for personalized CD covers and now we are pretty sure that learning how to do it yourself can save you lots of resources. Even if you just make a custom CD cover for your home video sample, you can make it really cool by adding photos or pictures to the whole concept.

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Thanks to digital technologies, today you do not have any need for printing the photo, cutting it, and glueing to the cover. Everything is much easier! All you need is a laptop/PC, your brave ideas on the custom CD case design, and special software like RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker. And use our guide, which may help you to cope with the task brilliantly and quickly.

Why Choosing a Custom DVD Case and Where to Get It

First, let's look at the main reasons why you should bother creating a custom CD case at all? Of course, if you own a private recording studio, a small film production, or even an advertising agency that creates unique video content, this question simply does not arise in front of you. You already know why you need personalized CD covers.

But the need for placing a photo or picture on the cover of a CD/DVD does not end there! Today, this option is popular for several reasons, such as:

  • Creation of the author's music collection or video library. Yes, not all of us buy licensed discs, and it is not always possible to buy rare albums. And for DJs, creating their compilations and remixes is a part of the job, without which you simply cannot do anything!
  • Design of creative gifts. If you want to surprise a friend or loved one, the author's design of a CD or DVD with interesting content will come in handy. Of course, if you know that a handmade gift will be quoted much higher than banal surprises.
  • Business goals. If you often use presentations and audio materials/podcasts for your work and business development, you are engaged in consulting or just collecting useful information for employee training, writing down such information on a CD and designing it using a photo is a great idea.
  • Creating a video timeline for a family archive is also an important reason to use modern methods of designing custom DVD covers. Your photo archives and recorded home videos will be saved for posterity and will have an attractive and understandable design.

Whatever the reason for wanting to put a photo or picture on your CD/DVD cover, we have a couple of ideas on how to make a personalized CD cover.

What Methods of Printing a Photo on a CD Cover to Choose

First of all, let’s distinguish some designers’ ideas for placing a photo on the CD cover. Here are several ideas you can use:

  • Placing one main image on the cover on its background.
  • Making one main image/photo placed on the cover as a background and main image at once.
  • Using several photos/images at once to place all of them on one cover in some different design samples. That is what a collage concept is.

Now let’s take a brief look at how to create a cover like that. For this, the first thing you may need is software. We’ve taken RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker as an example of this tool to show you briefly what steps you need to do. You can download this software or buy full version on this page.

RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker is quite logical and intuitive, so it won’t take long for you to deal with the cover. After you conclude on what idea to implement, how many images to use, and what background to choose, you can make several simple steps for adding a photo to your custom CD cover.

For this, you need to go to the 'Insert' menu of the program. Besides, you can use the 'Objects' toolbar available on the main screen. Then you can specify the image you want to add to your custom CD cover. There you can choose from the presets collection of the software or download your own image. Besides, you can add your special collection of images to operate in future.

Then you should click the left button on the document area to adjust the bottom point for the image you want to add to the cover template.

Choose the location with your mouse button and then use 'Properties' editor if you need to edit the photo.

This algorithm allows you to create a unique custom CD DVD cover with an almost limitless number of photos. There are three main templates we should show you to inspire your ideas.

Picture used as the background of CD cover

Background image CD insert

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There you can see the image used as the background for the label’s text.

Collage onto a DVD cover

Collage onto a DVD cover

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That sample is a beautiful collage you can be inspired by when you need to use several photos at once.

Insert one picture on CD cover

Insert one picture on CD cover

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The third template shows you how to adjust the order of adding the objects to make the photo placed in the circle. You may need to use these properties of RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker and download the image in the .PNG format with transparent areas to create the cover like that.

Besides, we should also mention what formats of images are available for adding to your custom CD cover in RonyaSoft CD/DVD Label Maker. You are welcome to use:

  • Raster formats including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG.
  • Vector images including WMF or EMF.

All the other is up to your imagination and creativity.

Some Conclusions

Creating a personalized CD cover is not a daunting task. Especially when you go ahead and use digital solutions like the RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker software. That program has all the functions you may need for the implementation of your creative ideas like making a collage or a special combined template with photos and images of various origins. Just try your chance and train a bit so you can make a truly impressive custom DVD cover for your music or video collection.

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