Alexmac gimpusers.com> writes:

Hi guys my names Alex, just looking for a bit of advice...

Hi Alex,

I used to have a few templates that I worked from before esp when designing a CD label. There are a few ways to do it, though the simplest I can think of is to print these at a copy shop like kinko's or whatever print on demand (digital printers) outlet you have in your area, you could speak to them about printing your labels on a label paper designed specifically for the purpose of printing CD labels. They'd supply you with the dimensions you need or you could get them from
http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates-%26-Software/Templates/Pre_designed-Templates-for-Microsoft-Word/_/siteschannels-2-cd-labels-per-page/?N=4294965874 or even at
http://www.avery.com/avery/en_US/Templates-%26-Software/Templates/Labels/CD-%26-DVD-Media-Labels-%26-Inserts/Full-Face-CD-Labels-2-per-sheet-plus-4-spine-labels_Microsoft-Word.htm these labels are in word format but you can open them up in Word or Libre Office and saving as a pdf you can open in GIMP. If you're on linux you can use GIMP coupled with gLabels http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ if on Windows or Mac a web search should get you on your way. There are tons of them.

Im using Gimp 2.8 and im looking to make CD labels that i can stick onto a circular CD, the thing is i cant find a template in my GIMP software. Has

anyone got any tutorials and how do do this, do i need to import a template or > something?

I'ma be quite honest, this is info that you'd be able to get on a simple web search, that said, I hope this has helped you out tho :)

Many thanks Alex

Take Care

Alexmac writes:

Im using Gimp 2.8 and im looking to make CD labels that i can stick onto a circular CD, the thing is i cant find a template in my GIMP software. Has anyone got any tutorials and how do do this, do i need to import a template or something?

I used to do a lot of that, and wrote some scripts to help with it: http://shallowsky.com/software/cdplugins/ and a more general version that uses the glabels database to generate templates from Avery or similar label codes: http://shallowsky.com/software/gimplabels/

Disclaimer: You may get deprecation warnings or other problems -- I haven't used these scripts in years, partly because I stopped using CD labels after I lost some important backup data due to trusting labeled CDs (turns out the adhesive on CD labels makes the CD degrade faster, and I had CDs less than two years old which were completely unreadable) and partly because GIMP's current print plug-in and my HP printer don't cooperate very well on alignment.

...Akkana