MAGIX Cover & Label Plus User manual

Brand: MAGIX

Model: Cover & Label Plus

Type: User manual

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus: Your creative toolbox for designing and printing professional-looking covers and labels for your CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes.

This versatile software lets you unleash your creativity and bring your ideas to life. With a range of templates and customizable options, you can create personalized covers, inlays, labels, and booklets that perfectly complement your media projects.

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus makes it easy to:

Design and print high-quality covers, inlays, and labels: Choose from a variety of templates or create your own custom designs. Add your own images, text, and graphics to create truly unique covers that reflect your style.

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus: Your creative toolbox for designing and printing professional-looking covers and labels for your CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes.

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus makes it easy to:

Design and print high-quality covers, inlays, and labels: Choose from a variety of templates or create your own custom designs. Add your own images, text, and graphics to create truly unique covers that reflect your style.

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Table of Contents

What is MAGIX cover & label PLUS? 5

Tutorial 6

1. Open new project 6

2. Select project type 6

3. Edit front cover 7

4. Editing the back cover, inlay and label 10

5. Printing 11

Wizards 12

CD/DVD Wizard 12

LP Wizard 12

Work techniques 14

Work space 14

Projects 14

Undoing actions 14

Context menu 14

Zooming 15

Reduce or enlarge 15

Grouping 15

Organising layers 16

Images and graphics 17

Insert graphic 17

Insert: Geometr. Form 17

Text and Extras 18

Text 18

Extras 19

Buttons 20

Scan Image 20

Insert Graphic 20

Insert: Text 20

Insert: Cliparts 20

Insert: Geometr. Form 20

Insert: Extras 20

Print 20

Export image 21

New 21

Open 21

Save 21

Zoom 21

Table of Contents

File Menu 22

New 22

Load 22

Save 23

Save as 23

Export 23

Print 23

Page settings 23

Change page format 23

End 23

Edit Menu 24

Undo 24

Cut 24

Copy 24

Paste 24

Duplicate 24

Select all 24

Delete 24

Properties 25

View Menu 26

Restore view 26

Zoom out 26

Zoom in 26

Zoom tool 26

Shift view 26

Group 26

Ungroup 26

Send to front 26

Send to back 27

Next layer 27

Previous layer 27

Help Menu 28

Help 28

Registration 28

www.magix.com 28

Index 29

What is MAGIX cover & label PLUS?

MAGIX cover & label PLUS is a virtual studio for printing

labels and covers for CDs, DVDs and VHS cassettes. Stick-

ers, covers, inlays and booklets can be designed and printed

in precisely to your needs.

Both normal paper sheets and prefabricated sheets with

perforated stickers can be used for printing, as found in

trade stores.

The clipart gallery provided offers a large quantity of im-

ages and backgrounds which can be combined into new

cover motifs. Your own pictures can also be used. Via drag

& drop, all pictures can be loaded, placed together on the

working area, equipped with texts, and printed out in a suit-

able format.

The LP Wizard looks after the scanning of 12” vinyl records.

LPs are too large for most scanners — they are therefore

scanned in two steps and thereafter automatically merged

to form a uniform CD/DVD cover. The CD/DVD Wizard

reduces CD/DVD cover, label and inlay scanning to just a

couple of clicks.

Tutorial

Let’s begin with a concrete CD project! Even if you don’t

intend to create a CD printing project, the following proce-

dure is nevertheless recommended: It will allow you to

quickly become acquainted with MAGIX cover & label

PLUS so as to realize other projects, because the funda-

mental working procedures are alike for all project types.

1. Open new project

After starting the program, the ”New Project” start-up win-

dow opens offering three options:

– create a new project without templates (Option: ”Empty

Project”)

– call up the templates included (Option: ”Template As-

sistant”)

– scan an existing CD or DVD (Option: ”Scanner Assis-

tant”).

Let’s assume that you’d to create a CD project from scratch,

with label sticker, inlay and cover. Select the ”Empty Project”

option in the start-up window.

2. Select project type

You are now confronted with the Project Type selection

window.. Here you can select from a total of 5 project types:

three different CD and/or DVD projects, a purely DVD

project and a VHS project.

The project types differ from each other in two regards:

Items: ”Label”, ”Cover”, ”Inlay” and ”Booklet” are combined

differently in the project types. Labels are round stickers

for blank discs. ”Cover” designates the front and inside of

Tutorial

the CD box. The Inlay is the back of the CD box with the

narrow strips down the sides. The Booklet is an informa-

tion booklet that can accompany the CD or DVD into the

box.

Dimensions: Depending upon the type of project, tem-

plates are used for almost square CD boxes (jewel cases.),

oblong DVD boxes, or VHS cassettes.

Depending upon the type of project, you are offered a com-

bination of empty templates with suitable dimensions.

For a CD project with cover, inlay and label, select the pre-

set project type ”Standard CD/DVD label project” and click

on ”continue”

3. Edit front cover

The front side of an empty CD is called up on screen when

”Standard CD/DVD Label Project” is selected.

Tutorial

This side can now be equipped with diagrams and texts.

Usually you will want to include an artist name and a CD/

DVD name. The Playlist (and/or the table of contents) nor-

mally appears on the back of the cover or at the back of the

CD box (inlay).

Insert Text: In order to enter text, click on the Text button

and draw out a text field with the mouse. You can also click

on the template, keep the mouse button pressed, and move

the mouse. If you release the mouse button, a dialog for

the text entry opens.

As with a text processing program, you can write and for-

mat text in the dialog. Enter the title of your CD and the

artist’s name!

To format text, ”highlight” the text in the dialog by pulling

the mouse pointer over the text while pressing down the

mouse button (so that the letters are white and are framed

darkly). The marked text can now be formatted. If you click

on O.K., the text entry dialog closes.

Now the text in the text field appears on the template. You

can click and then shift the text field, or delete it again. In

order change the text later, open the text dialog by double

clicking on the text field.

Insert Graphics: There are three possibilities for loading

graphics or photos:

– via the ”Browse” button, you access the graphic library

provided. The list of pictures can be shifted with the scroll

bar so that all the items can be viewed. You can of course

Tutorial

also use your own images. Simply click on “Insert

Cliparts” and access your graphics files directory (e.g. in

JPG or BMP format).

– via the ”Search” button you can search directories or

drives for usable graphics files. You can enter a name, a

file type and a folder (e.g. ”Local drive C:”). Subsequently,

all sub-directories of the selected search item are

searched. Data found appears on the right side of the

dialog.

– via the ”Scanner” button you can directly scan in photos

(for example) to be used for the CD/DVD cover. Of

course, you also need a ready-to-run scanner.

Note: In order to scan a complete CD, DVD or LP cover, it’s

best to use the Scanner Assistant

You can pull each picture from the preview list with the

mouse. Click on the picture and drag it with the mouse

button held on the template.

Arranging graphics and text fields: In principle you

can combine as many pictures and text fields as like you.

Each item can be pulled wherever you want it.

Because a concise overview can be lost quickly, you can

zoom in, i.e. increase the size of one part of the screen. The

Zooming button is in the upper right corner.

With many picture items on screen, it can sometimes be

confusing when so many overlap. You can control this prob-

lem via the View menu with the ”One level in front”, ”To

the front” or ”To the back” commands. Imagine the frames

Tutorial

as pieces of paper on top of each other upon your desk and

which only a part of each piece can be seen.

The size of each graphic can be changed easily by clicking

the graphic, then shifting the handle of the frame. If you

pull on the edges between the handles with the mouse, you

can then increase or reduce the edge in just one direction,

thus distorting the graphic.

4. Editing the back cover, inlay and label

Once you have completed the front cover, you’ll probably

want to work on the 3 other items of your CD project: The

back cover, the inlay and the label.

Note: If you only need the front cover, you can at this point

simply print. Select the ”Only current side” option in the print

dialog.

Begin with the back of the front cover, that is, the side which

appears when you unfold the CD. If you click the ”Back

Cover” button, you will arrive at the applicable template.

Insert: Extra (Adding a playlist): It is often the case

that the playlist appears on the back cover and inlay of the

CD. If you’ve already provided a Playlist, MAGIX cover &

label PLUS takes over the entries automatically from the

main program (e.g. MAGIX video deLuxe 2.0 PLUS,

MAGIX music cleaning lab or MAGIX mp3 maker). The

entries are updated automatically as soon as the project in

the main program is changed!

Playlist tables are normal text fields which can shift, delete

or (via double click) edit text in the text dialog.

Navigation bar: Inlay and label are accessed by means of

the button bar. There are several buttons for all project type

items: Cover, Booklet, (both for either CD or DVD), CD

Inlay, CD/DVD label and VHS labels (cassette side and

top side).

Because you are working in the ”Standard CD/DVD Label

Project”, you can switch between ”CD-Cover”, ”CD/DVD

Label” und ”CD-Inlay”.

Tutorial

Adding text to the ”spine”: The narrow sides at the edges

of the CD box can be likewise furnished with text. The text

must be rotated 90 degrees.

The template for the inlay offers two narrow strips on both

the left and right for the sides. Write the two text lines in

the text dialog as they should appear on the sides, , and the

select the rotation option in the context menu (right mouse-

click on the text field). Now you can rotate the text 90

degrees and drag it onto the sides.

5. Printing

Before printing you should activate the print preview in

the file menu. If everything looks the way it should, open

the print dialog via the print button (or the menu option

”Print”).

Setting the paper format: An A4 format page is always

printed. The paper format is particularly important for pre-

fabricated CD/DVD label stickers, which are organized dif-

ferently on A4 paper depending upon the manufacturer.

You can select the paper format with the ”change paper

format” button. If you want to use prefabricated CD/DVD

label stickers, select a manufacturer in this dialog (e.g. Avery

Zweckform Art. Nr. 6043).

Calibrate: Use the calibrate function to co-ordinate the

print format with your printer. Beforehand, you should print

out some samples on normal paper. You can then use the

test prints to calibrate the print format so that the print lies

precisely within the perforations of the special paper.

Print: Once everything fits, place your valuable special

paper in the printer and print out the CD project.

Note: The working methods described are the same for all project

types; only the style sheets change. When printing a booklet, the

sides must be placed in the printer in a special way. Please use

the advice in the printer dialog!

Wizards

You can easily scan a CD, DVD or a LP cover with the help

of the Wizards. Select the Wizard you want to use via the

menu “File”!

CD/DVD Wizard

Use the CD/DVD Wizard to scan a CD or DVD cover with

your scanner. The Wizard shows how to scan and he helps

to cut the scanned picture in the right way.

1. In the first dialog you can select the project that you would

like to scan: ”Label”, ”Cover”, ”Back”, or ”Inlay”.

2. The second dialog shows how to position the CD or DVD

cover on the scanner. Click on “Acualize” to start the pro-

cess.

3. Now the scanned picure has to be cutted. The third dia-

log shows a page frame to adjust the page boundaries.

4. That’s it. In the forth dialog you load the picture as a new

MAGIX cover & label PLUS-project.

LP Wizard

Use the LP Wizard to scan a LP cover with your scanner.

LP covers are too large to get a complete picture of the cover

in one single scan. The Wizard shows how to scan the cover

in two steps and to fit both scanned pictures together,

Wizards

1. First of all you scan the left part of the cover. In the first

dialog you can see how to position the left part of the cover

on your scanner. Click on “Acualize” to start the process.

2. In the next step you scan the rest of the cover. The sec-

ond dialog shows how to scan the second half of the cover.

You have to rotate the cover and adjust it with the scanner.

3. Then both segments are being added together to one

single picture of the whole cover. You can adjust each of

the pictures with the arrow buttons.

4. That’s it. In the forth dialog you load the picture as a new

MAGIX cover & label PLUS-project.

Work techniques

Work space

The work space in the middle displays a sheet of paper (la-

bel, cover or inlay) as it would appear when printed – as

well as the ”desk surroundings”. You can also drag image

objects or text fields to positions next to the paper as you

would on a real desk while working with such objects.

Projects

New projects are loaded via the ”New” button as well as via

the ”Load” button. When loading, older projects stored on

the harddisk are opened for you to re-edit.

Undoing actions

Sometimes, you may perform an action that, for example,

diminishes rather than improves the quality of the layout.

You can always cancel an action by selecting ”Edit” in the

menu, followed by the ”Undo” option.

Context menu

The menu commands ”Edit” and ”View” and the “Rota-

tion” command for text also allow you to access the so-called

context menu. Right click on an object that’s on the work

space, and then select a command from the list – an ideal

tool for quick editing work.

Special functions such as colouring text can be realised

quickly by selecting the ”properties” option in the context

menu for a text field.

Work techniques

Zooming

The view can be altered with either the ”+” button (to en-

large the view) and the ”-” button (to reduce the view).

You can also zoom via the menu, which offers the magni-

fying glass, as well as both zoom button commands. You

can also reset the view of a project to the original view when

the project began.

With the magnifying glass, you can draw out a quadrangle

that defines an area to be enlarged.

Reduce or enlarge

To reduce or enlarge an image object, select an object by

clicking on it. Selected images are displayed with a ”frame”

around them.

When you manoeuvre the corner points, the image object

is enlarged or reduced while maintaining its original pro-

portions. By manoeuvring the frame from any other point

other than the corners, the image stretches or compresses

– in a word, distorts.

Grouping

Several objects can be moved or altered as one by being

grouped together via the ”Group” command in the view

menu. This is particularly practical when, for example, the

Work techniques

combination of a figure and a background image are per-

fectly organised, yet together need to be shifted.

A grouping is effectively consolidated as a single object and

retains a common frame. To separate the group into its

original elements, select the ”Ungroup” command.

Organising layers

You can in principle combine as many image elements as

you wish. Every element can be moved anywhere on the

work space. It often happens when working with many

images that some elements and their frames become hid-

den. The view menu helps out in this case, via the ”next

layer”, ”previous layer”, ”straight to the front” and ”straight

to the back” commands. Imagine if you will pictures on

your desk piled one on top of the other so that only a part of

the total picture can be seen.

Images and graphics

Insert graphic

The ”Insert Graphic” button activates the integrated graph-

ics library. To view the elements within it, use the scroll

bar at the bottom of the selection window to flick through

the list of images. The most effective method is to activate

all categories in the series and then see which images may

suit your requirements. You can pull any image from the

preview list via drag & drop onto the working interface.

Search: The ”Search” button allows you to search through

different selectable indexes for usable graphics and photos

and then displays the result in a preview list. You can pull

any image from the preview list via drag & drop onto the

work space.

Insert: Geometr. Form

You can also sketch abstract shapes such as circles or

squares, or frame images within them. Activate the

”Shapes” button to draw a quadrangle or a circle. By double

clicking on a shape, a dialogue opens allowing you to choose

the width and colour of the shape’s borders, as well as be-

ing able to choose whether the shape should be filled in

with a particular colour.

Text and Extras

Each text in a text field can be moved and edited just like

selected image objects. The main difference however is that

when a text field’s size is altered, the size of the text itself

does not change. The size of the text can only be altered in

the text dialogue, which can be opened with a double click.

By altering the size of a text field or by adding more text,

not all of the text may be visible. In this case, either the text

field must be enlarged or the size of the font must be re-

duced.

Text

Each text is written or formatted in a separate text dialogue

that is opened by double clicking on an existing text field.

It is also opened automatically when a new text field is called

up via the ”Text” button.

Font: You can select the type of lettering from a choice of

TrueType fonts that are installed on the computer (exclud-

ing Postscript fonts).

Size: Here, the size of the letters can be selected.

Style: Here you can choose bold and/or italic.

Fill: Here you can select a colour for the text. When it is

not selected, the letters are not visible but can be bordered

or framed with the following options.

Text and Extras

Frame: A frame can be placed around the letters. The

frame’s colour and width can be selected.

Positioning: The text as a whole can be positioned on the

paper with margin left, margin right, or centred.

Text Rotation

MAGIX cover center offers a special function to rotate the

text in order to write on the tiny backsite of a CD jewel

case. To rotate the text click on the text field with the right

mouse button and select the entry ”Rotation”.

Extras

Playlists are a special form of text field that can be called up

from the playlist button. They are small tables for the song

titles – usually found on the inside flap or on the back of

CDs.

The text editing of playlists, as with other text fields, is per-

formed in the text dialogue.

With the functions ”Add Playlist” and ”Edit TOC”, track

information from the MAGIX CD burnR deLuxe is evalu-

ated in order to create a CD text. ”TOC” is an abbreviation

of ”Table of Contents” (referring to the projects in MAGIX

CD burnR deLuxe).

Buttons

Scan Image

Scan image: This function can be utilised when a conven-

tional scanner with a TWAIN 32 drive is available.

Select source: Allows you to select one of several scan-

ners, or a scanner without TWAIN compatibility.

Insert Graphic

Opens the search function for your own image files that

can then be used as CD cover elements. Listed in a selec-

tion window.

Insert: Text

Opens the text dialogue (see above ”Text”).

Insert: Cliparts

This button activate the integrated image files (see above –

”Images and Graphics”).

Insert: Geometr. Form

Here you can choose the forms you would like to ”draw”,

such as ”circle” or ”square”.

Insert: Extras

Edit playlist: This function opens the table containing

track details. In the ”Edit TOC” editor, all entries can be

moved, edited or deleted.

Add playlist: Adds a table with the main program’s cur-

rent CD/DVD titles to the printing project.

Before printing, a print dialogue opens where you can for-

mat the page layout (panel format/landscape format). Use

the “calibrate” function to adjust the page and click “O.K.”

The Print Preview displays everything that will eventually

be printed, cutting out anything in the surrounding area

from view. It is recommended to use this function prior to

printing.

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MAGIX Cover & Label Plus User manual

Brand: MAGIX

Model: Cover & Label Plus

Type: User manual

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus: Your creative toolbox for designing and printing professional-looking covers and labels for your CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes.

MAGIX Cover & Label Plus makes it easy to:

Design and print high-quality covers, inlays, and labels: Choose from a variety of templates or create your own custom designs. Add your own images, text, and graphics to create truly unique covers that reflect your style.

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