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Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:36 pm

Looking to design some simple album art covers for BandCamp and other such original music distribution sites.
I don't need anything too fancy and want it to be fairly easy to use just to get some album cover designs for my tunes.
I could go with a series of White albums as a tribute to the Beatles, but I'm not sure if that would be too well received.
Thanks for tips or recommendations.

llze · Post by **llze** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:38 pm

Gimp ?

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:47 pm

Suloo wrote:Gimp ?

How easy is it to use?

I also found blender and inkscape (open source programs).

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:49 pm

Paint.NET is a great free graphic program, too!

http://www.getpaint.net

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:54 pm

And Photofiltre if you want to work with images:

http://photofiltre.free.fr

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:56 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:Paint.NET is a great free graphic program, too!

http://www.getpaint.net

Thanks. Looks good.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:58 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:And Photofiltre if you want to work with images:

http://photofiltre.free.fr

Thanks, I'll check it out. I think I may work with colors and text more than photos but may use a combination.

llze · Post by **llze** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 9:06 pm

Don`t you have any idea on how graphic programs do work, like Photoshop etc? With layers?

Gimp is pretty easy yes, but almost as powerful as photoshop. Blender is a 3D engine, wich could be used as well, but its also not quite self explaining, if you never worked with 3D. But would be a good intro software, for 3D..

Up to you, but i guess you would need to watch tutorials anyway, so it doesn`t really matter wich software you use that, just what your aiming for..

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 9:27 pm

Suloo wrote:Don`t you have any idea on how graphic programs do work, like Photoshop etc? With layers?

Gimp is pretty easy yes, but almost as powerful as photoshop. Blender is a 3D engine, wich could be used as well, but its also not quite self explaining, if you never worked with 3D. But would be a good intro software, for 3D..

Up to you, but i guess you would need to watch tutorials anyway, so it doesn`t really matter wich software you use that, just what your aiming for..

Yeah, I dig GIMP. Inkscape is my favorite though.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 9:39 pm

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback and recommendations.
I've played with some graphics programs so I have some idea about how they work.

Free and Easy to Use Album Art Program