Overview

Front Cover Specifications (15 points)

1. Raster Layer 1 (ocean and sky) (3 points)
   • ocean surface (some shade of blue)
   • sky (lighter blue than the ocean)
2. Raster Layer 2 (island and sun) (3 points)
   • desert island (a sand-like color)
   • the sun (yellow)
3. Raster Layer 3 (tree and cloud) (3 points)
   • palm tree (brown trunk and green leaves)
   • a cloud (white). It partially obscures the sun.
4. Raster Layer 4 (you) (3 points)
   • you! - insert a digital photo of yourself (add any special effects you like)
5. Raster Layer 5 (optional title)
   • (optional) title of your collection.

Other Requirements

• Layer 3 will be in front of Layer 2 and Layer 2 will be in front of Layer 1. The layer containing your photo may be placed wherever you wish.
• The ocean, sky, island, sun, tree and cloud must be drawn using Paint Shop Pro drawing tools, not copied and pasted from an existing image. Feel free to add special effects.
• Have fun with this and experiment with the different tools and effects!

Back Cover Specifications (10 points)

1. Background image which is a simplified approximation of the front cover image. (5 points)
   • Do not include your photo.
   • All elements must be drawn using the Word Drawing toolbar tools, not copied and pasted from somewhere else.
   • Because Word uses object (vector) graphics, the drawings will be somewhat crude.
2. A numbered list of the song titles and artists. (2 points)
   • Minimum of 12 songs, maximum of 20.
   • They must be legible against the background.
   • The list must be created using the "Text Box" feature of the Drawing toolbar.
   • The text box outline should not be visible and its background must be transparent (no fill)
   • See illustration below.
3. CD title arranged vertically on both left and right "spine". (1 point)
   • The right edge should read from top to bottom and the left edge from bottom to top.
   • The text needs to be turned too, so if you laid the CD flat on its back you could read it!
   • Left edge is the leftmost 0.35" of the image, right edge is rightmost 0.35" of the image (both of these fit within the 5.9" width). Width does not have to be exact; anywhere from 0.3" to 0.4" will be fine.
   • See illustration below.

Generic Back Cover (does not include the image elements) to illustrate text arrangement. You are not required to underline the titles. This is not my list, by the way. It was submitted by a student last year.

Using Paint Shop Pro to Create the Front Cover

Choosing a version

Creating an image

Select "New..." from the File menu. The New Image dialog will appear. Modify it so its settings are exactly the same as the circled settings illustrated here, click OK then save your file in your home folder with the name front.pspimage (You don't need to type the ".pspimage", this is the Paint Shop Pro default). The specified resolution is fine for viewing and working with on the screen. If you were to print the image for actual use, you would probably want higher resolution because printers typically can print 300 dots (pixels) per inch. But, file size increases by the square of the resolution, e.g. doubling the resolution will quadruple the file size.

Working with the image

Creating a new layer

To add a layer, go to the Layers menu and select New Raster Layer... When the dialog pops up, give the layer a descriptive name and OK it.

Adding your own picture

An easy way to add your image (front cover Layer 4) is to

1. Open, in Paint Shop Pro, the file that contains your image,
2. Edit and resize (Image -> Resize) as desired
3. Select what you want to use (use the Selection tool),
4. Copy the selection the clipboard, then
5. Go back to your cover image and Paste as a new layer.
6. If it is too large or too small, undo the paste then go back to step b and resize.

If you do not have a digital photo of yourself you can get a friend to take your picture, or browse to your Otternet page (e.g. Otterbein home page -> Intranet -> Links for OC Campus -> My Otternet), find your ID photo in a class list, right-click on it and save it as a file. Then follow the steps above.

Pictorial guide to the tools

In general, you will select a tool from the tool palette, then check and modify its settings (shown in the toolbar above) before using it. The color palette shows current color for both a foreground and background.

Using Microsoft Word to Create the Back Cover

Create a new blank Word document. Make sure the Drawing toolbar is visible (look at the bottom of the screen). If it is not, then go to the View menu, select Toolbars then check Drawing.

Save your document in your home folder under the name back.doc.

1. The Undo feature, which is used the same way as for Paint Shop Pro.
2. The Format dialog that appears when you double-click on a Drawing object. Here you can adjust sizes, colors and so forth.
3. The pop-up menu that appears when you right-click on the Drawing object. Useful features here include Grouping (in which you can group (and later ungroup) multiple selected objects so they will move around together) and Order (specifying which objects go in front of which).
4. Objects will not, by default, have a transparent background. To get this, select the object and set its fill color (paint bucket on Drawing toolbar) to "No Fill". This is essential for displaying the song list against the cover's background images.
5. To get the text on the spines to be oriented vertically, select the text then from the Format menu select "Text Direction..." and specify the orientation.

To Submit

* Possible 5 point bonus