Tip 1: How to insert an album cover

Tip 1: How to insert an album cover


Sometimes, you digitize your favorite music from an audio CD to listen to it in your player, or download from the Internet, and instead of the cover Album a blank picture is displayed - a plain graydisk or anything else like that. It's somehow uncomfortable, you'll agree. See how you can remedy this situation in ordinary Winamp and Windows Media Player Pleer, as well as using a special program Mp3tag.



How to insert an album cover


You will need



  • - A computer;
  • - Internet connection.


Instructions


1


Scan cover disk or download an image from the Internet. In general, paste as the cover Album you can absolutely any picture. Even a picture of her kitten. Only first it is better to edit - make a square. Otherwise, it will not be displayed correctly. Use JPEG, GIF (static), BMP, PNG, TIFF for image covers.


2


Copy the image for the cover Album to the clipboard - that is, right-click on it and select "Copy" from the menu that opens.


3


Open the album in Windows Media Player (it is included in the standard Windows package). Go to the media library. Right-click on the empty logo Album and in the context menu select "Paste cover Album". The selected image will now be displayed as the cover when playing all the tracks from this Album in any player.


4


Open the album in the Winamp player. The latest version of this player can be downloaded for free from the official website of the program. Select a track Album and right-click. In the opened menu, select the "File Information" item. Or, press Alt + 3.


5


Select the "Image" tab in the window that opens. Click the "Browse" button and select the desired image on your computer. Click OK. The cover is ready. Please note that the picture will not be saved in the tags of the file, but in the folder with the music. When playing in other players, the cover loaded in this way will not be displayed.


6


Install the program editor of tags Mp3tag - itscan be found on the Internet (for example, Russified version 2.49 was used). Run the program and click the "Change folder" button in the menu. Select the folder in which the music is located.


7


Select the desired tracks in the list on the right. In the left margin of the editor, drop down to the image editing window. If necessary, use the slider. Right-click and select "Add cover".


8


Find the desired image file on your computer. Set the properties of the cover by right-clicking on the downloaded image. Select the menu item "Change the cover type" in the menu that opens, and the required parameter in it.


9


Save coverby clicking on the corresponding button in the program menu. On the screen there should be a window with the message on making changes to the tags. The cover is ready. It will be displayed in all players.



Tip 2: How to customize the album art for a song


You love music and collected on your computera whole collection of music records? However, to understand all this diversity, it is desirable to make "marking" music files, otherwise you will spend considerable time searching for songs and albums of your collection. Correct and volumetric information can be enclosed in the cover Album. The cover is a kind of presentation containing information about the music album as a whole. Most often, for this purpose, the "favorite" song is chosen from all the content.



How to customize the album art for a song


Instructions


1


As a rule, the player loads himself cover from the existing operational database. This happens while the CD is being burned. Once the player finds the corresponding entry in the online database, it automatically downloads not only multimedia data, but also cover.


2


True in some cases, the cover Album may be absent. In this case, you can configure it manually, at your choice. In this case, the image will be built directly into the music file, and this embedded file will be displayed as a cover.


3


You need to start with the "Library" tab,then go to the album that does not have a cover. Select the image on the song you like, right-click it. After click "Copy" (the image can be in BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG or GIF formats).


4


Return to the "Library" and with the right mouse button again, insert cover Album. In this case, a built-in and scaled to a suitable size copy of the image will be in each of the music files of this Album.


5


By the way, adding several albums of one artist, determine the liked unified cover, which can act as a business card of the entire collection.


6


For especially creative there is a variant of self-creation of a cover of favorite audioAlbum. Open Photoshop and draw out how you think the album should be designed, write the name of the group or the name of the artist, the name Album, do not forget to specify the date of its exit. These data are needed not so much to fill the picture, as to ensure that after some time you have managed to find the songs you need not by the cover picture (you can forget it), but by the release date of the tracks or their names.




Tip 3: How to attach an album cover


Cover Album for drawings or photographs - this is his face. It should be not just beautiful, but with a unique character. Underline content features Album and you can set his mood by using various methods of attaching the cover.



How to attach an album cover


Instructions


1


For a long time, a cover stitched together with sheets Album. Each sheet folded in half, then insert themeach other. From such notebooks of 6-10 sheets, create an album of the required thickness. The first and last notebooks in the pile wrap with a denser sheet of paper or cardboard - it will become the cover.


2


Expand the first notebook, put it on the frontside to itself. Using the ruler, divide the folding position into equal segments. Mark them with dots. So do with the other notebooks. In places marked with dots, pierce the notebooks through (an awl or gypsy needle). Select synthetic threads, the thickness of which is equal to the diameter of the puncture. Sew her first notebook with the suture "forward needle" from the bottom up. On the same thread, put on the second notebook. When you reach the bottom edge, thread the needle through the adjacent stitch in the first notebook. In this way, twist the whole album.


3


If you do not want the threads to be visible, put on cover after the binding is done. Cut it out of a single piece of cardboard, adding between the front and back halves the width of the root (add 2 mm to each side to it). Place the folds of the cover with a dull hard object so that the cardboard does not break and bend smoothly. Lubricate the first page with glue Album. Attach to it cover and smooth from the center to the edges. When the glue dries, proceed the same way with the back cover. Do not glue the spine.


4


A more simple binding can be created if you have clamps and a drill. Fold all sheets Album in a pile. Top and bottom put a tougher cover. Clamp the stack in the clamps, stepping back from the edge by 2 cm. In 1 centimeter from the edge, draw a line and divide it into equal segments. Lubricate the spine Album glue and slightly spread out the pages so that it gets inside.


5


When the glue dries, drill through the albumin marked places. Insert a woolen thread or a jute cord into the holes. Twist the album over the edge or a seam back with a needle. Secure the thread with a knot.


6


Sew the removable cover from a fabric of pleasant coloring. You will find it like covers, which are used for school textbooks and exercise books. Measure the album in the closed state - the height and width of the pages and the spine. In accordance with the parameters, cut out the rectangular part. To the edges of such a cover, sew pockets into which the fly-leaves will be inserted. For the cover to hold better, the endpapers Album strengthen with cardboard.




Tip 4: How to add a cover to files


Adding covers to music filesruns automatically in Windows Media Player. If for some reason this did not happen, you can add covers manually. Special knowledge and hacking skills are not required!



How to add a cover to files


Instructions


1


Start the Windows Media Player application and connect to the Internet to perform the operation of adding a cover to a music file from the online database.


2


Click on the "Library" tab and bring up the context menu of the album you want to edit.


3


Specify the item "Find album information".


4


Change the settings for the program settings in casean error message appears with the recommendation that you edit the privacy settings to a level that allows you to update the multimedia information. To do this, select the "Options" item in the "Tools" menu of the top toolbar of the program window and go to the "Privacy" tab of the opened dialog box.


5


Apply the checkbox to the field "Update music files using information from the Internet" and repeat the above algorithm of actions.


6


Specify the correct data in the results listsearch and follow the recommendations on the page for automatic updates, or change the search conditions if you can not obtain the required data.


7


Return to the "Library" section and specify the file to be added to the cover to use the selected image as the cover if you can not use the search results.


8


Call the context menu of the selected image with the right mouse button and select "Copy".


9


Call the context menu of the file you want to edit, right-click and select "Paste Album Artwork".


10


Use the free software Automatic CoverTool, working on Java and designed to automate the process of adding missing covers to music files, to simplify the solution of the task.




Tip 5: How to insert your photo into the album


Many like to communicate in different socialitiesnetworks, visit forums and post their photos there. Yes, there are their own, their family, their favorite pets. That's only for beginners, the process of uploading photos turns into a whole test. How can this be done simply and quickly, especially if there is no one near who could help?



How to insert your photo into the album


Instructions


1


Every Internet resource has its ownrules and restrictions on the placement of photos in albums of users. These restrictions can concern both the size of the uploaded image, and the format, name. so check the order of the image upload and after that get down to business.


2


As a rule, albums are placed in a personal sectionuser, in the profile or on a special section of the main page of the site. Find it is not difficult, since it is referred to as a photo or simply an album. Go to the corresponding page by clicking the left mouse button on the desired icon. You will be taken to a page with an available field for uploading an image. Usually each field required for filling is accompanied by prompts, and the dash is step-by-step numbered. That is, first you select a photo on the media (it can be a flash drive, hard drive or removable disk), press open and the photo appears in the download field, then give it a name (if necessary). In some cases, there is one more line to fill - this is a proposal to make a photo a cover of the album. If there is a desire to make a photo cover, just tick a small box located right there. At the end click on the save button and wait for the page to refresh.


3


Some resources offer a fairly simpleway to upload photos. In the photo section on your personal page, you have several windows in front of you, clicking on which you can select several photos from the media and then download them all together without spending time to download each separately. The speed of uploading photos depends on the volume of each image and the speed of data transfer of your ISP.




Tip 6: How to make a cover for Blu-Ray


For those users who download from the network and record movies on discs, it is important that the film has a beautiful cover. On specialized sites there is a massoffers ready-made covers for Blu-Ray, which you only need to download and print. Well, if you do not find a suitable cover on the web, you can do it yourself.



How to make a cover for Blu-Ray


You will need



  • - Adobe Photoshop graphics editor installed on the computer;
  • - A special program installed on the computer.


Instructions


1


Launch the Adobe Photoshop graphics editor. After that, download the template for the cover - Blu ray Cover from the website. In the opened window under the button "Add to Favorites" click "Download File". Extract the files from the .zip archive by clicking on the archive with the right mouse button and clicking on "Extract".


2


Open the bluraycovers file in Adobe Photoshop.psd from the archive by pressing Ctrl + O. Look at the layers panel - "Layers" (if there is no panel, press F7 in the upper row of the keyboard keys). Make the layers invisible "Bk" and "Example" - click on the "eyes" to the left of them. Open the folder "Blu ray Cover" by clicking on the arrow next to it. Make the folder "Box Art" invisible. Save the changes by pressing Ctrl + S on the keyboard.


3


Pre-download from the Internet and opena picture of a movie or music album that you want to insert into the cover without closing the bluraycovers.psd file. Press Alt + Ctrl + I and reduce the image to 357x415 pixels. In the layers panel, click on the layer with the poster and hold it, drag it onto the bluraycovers.psd file.


4


This layer is located above the layer "Cover highlight"so as not to get out of the file. If necessary, use scaling. Combine all layers by pressing Ctrl + Shift + E. Then click "Image", then "Trim" and place the point on the first item. Click Ok.


5


After that, press Shift + Ctrl + S. Save the file in the .jpg format with a quality of 12 or .png. Set the disc cover to a new name. Print out the cover and put it in the package with the disc.


6


If you need a circular picture on the disc,use another template - Blu Ray Template. Download it from the Internet, repeating steps 1. Open in Adobe Photoshop a file from the BRD Template.psd archive and a poster image saved from the Internet earlier. If necessary, reduce the template and / or poster by pressing Ctrl + Alt + I. Change the width and height values, click "OK".


7


In the layers palette of the file.psd disable the layer below the "Your CoverArt Here" layer. The layer that should be turned off looks like a blue square with a white stripe on the bottom. Drag the image onto the template and position it above the "Label Mask" layer. Combine all the layers with Ctrl + Shift + E. Save the resulting image and print it.




Tip 7: How to make an album cover


Each family has its own album with photos,storing the history of generations. It is also accepted to start children's, wedding and other photo albums devoted to any events of life. There are original ways to design their covers.



How to make an album cover


You will need



  • - velvet;
  • - staple;
  • - lace;
  • - braid;
  • - Photo;
  • - beads;
  • - sequins;
  • - thread for embroidery;
  • - a needle;
  • - Wedding accessories;
  • - rhinestones.


Instructions


1


If you make out cover children's photoAlbum, then its basis can be covered with a staple of gaycoloring or, if you are an adherent of the classical style - velvet. Choose the color of the fabric according to your taste or traditionally: for a boy - blue, for a girl - pink. Alternatively, you can put your favorite baby photo in the center.


2


Along the edges Album gently tape gilded braid or otheroriginal ornaments (rhinestones, beads, sequins, etc.). For the girl, you can make embroidery, if the fabric is solid. Also, it is possible to use thread-related decorations, for example, small original booties, lace, and the like.


3


Cover Album the boy can be decorated with appliqueships, planes, cars, his favorite fairy-tale heroes. Are also appropriate and embroidery of beads or applique of sequins, made on the entire surface of the cover.


4


Wedding photo coverAlbum Make your favorite honeymoon flowers. Do not be afraid if they seem too contrasting: red and green, black and white, etc. If you prefer classics, choose more calm tones. Very beautiful look photocovers, both hard and soft, made from wedding photos.


5


If you belong to the category of creative people, perform an applique from wedding accessories: on the cover Album carefully fasten the petals of roses from the bridal bouquet or small bows and ribbons that adorn the festive cortege. You can also make embroidery, apply beads, rhinestones and other ornaments.


6


Embroidery or wedding applications for wedding photo coverAlbum can be very much. For example, you can stylize it under the door with a little hole, a hole for the key, a hanging horseshoe and the inscription: "Here lives love!", Etc.