Guidelines

We supposed to have a theme already and start working with it. Unfortunately, I'm still confused about my theme. While thinking of a theme, I started doing the DVD cover and label so that it will be ready for the design.

Working with the DVD cover, at first I have no idea about how to make a proper guide lines for the label. I know about having guide lines on a layer but with the right dimensions, I don’t. I just put a big circle on my layer and wonder on how I will know the right dimension. Having guide lines with right dimensions is crucial.

To set the guidelines, just go to "View" then "New Guide".

A window will appear after selecting it, here we can now set the positions we want from a horizontal line to vertical line.

The outcome:

In the DVD label, a dashed line is shown. I don’t know how to do that so I searched for a tutorial. I followed the steps (Planet Photoshop) but instead of a dashed line, cos I can't find a box brush, I used circle brush and made a dotted line.

The outcome:

I learn new things today!

References:
Planet Photoshop. Dashed Lines in Photoshop. [online] Available at <http://www.planetphotoshop.com/dashed-lines-in-photoshop.html> [Accessed 07 October 2011]