DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
Bitmap and File to Print the Cover
A course by Paolo Proserpio , Art Director and Graphic Designer
About the video: Bitmap and File to Print the Cover
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to create a disc cover file (7 inch) and I will explain how to convert an image to a bitmap.”
In this video lesson Paolo Proserpio addresses the topic: Bitmap and File to Print the Cover, which is part of the Domestika online course: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins. Learn to create graphics for band merchandise with Photoshop and Illustrator, and apply them using thermal and transfer printing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Bitmap and file to print the cover Now I will show you how to make your 7 "graphics, i.e. small vinyl, and I'll explain how to turn an image into a bitmap. As in the previous lesson, I will create a new file. Also in this case, having to make a graphic that is black and white, my file will be grayscale. I will always use 600 DPI instead of 300 DPI, in case I have the desire to zoom in on the graphics I'm about to make. The first thing I'm going to put inside my document is the die-cut path. The die-cut path is the lines which indicate where to cut and where to fold my cover. As in the pin f...”
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Course summary for: DIY Printing for Album Covers and Pins
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Areas
Art Direction, Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Printing
Paolo Proserpio
A course by Paolo Proserpio
Paolo Proserpio is a graphic designer who lives and works in Milan. He's been a big fan of the underground music, graphic design, and art scenes since he was young. He first studied at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio followed by the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan where he specialized in graphic design.
He worked in the fields of music and fashion during his student years and continued for a time after graduating. He now has over a decade of experience running his own studio, which focuses on graphic design and art direction, primarily for printed products such as gadgets, T-shirts, catalogs, packaging, and album covers.
From 1999 to 2009, he also worked as a photographer for magazines, webzines, and agencies, as well as MTV.it, capturing images of famous musicians and bands from Italy and around the world. Since 2005, he's been sharing his knowledge on brand design and printmaking techniques as a professor at the I.E.D in Milan, and currently teaches two courses on screen printing at the Domus Academy.
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