I recently received an e-mail from Richard Lee showing me a new CD product (or “newest baby” as he called it) he created.

But in the e-mail, he wasn’t asking me if I could promote the product, or anything like that. He e-mailed me because he just wanted me to “check out the graphics” of his new CD because he used a product of mine that assisted him in the creation.

The product Richard Lee sent me a link to was The Tabacon Debrief. Though I highly recommend Richard’s product, I’m not writing this for the sake of promotion. I actually already promoted this product in a previous entry.

Anyway, Richard Lee was thanking me because he had used the product DVD Case Cover Creation to make the cover art for The Tabacon Debrief. I was flattered… But was actually more impressed because he didn’t use the product exactly the way I teach in the course.

In DVD Case Cover Creation, I instruct the viewers to download the free trial of the software “Adobe Fireworks”, only because that’s just the software I’ve used for several years to do graphics editing stuff. But Richard didn’t do that. Richard used a different graphics editing program.

He instead decided to use Open Office Impress (a program like PowerPoint) because he already had it and was more familiar with it. It turned out that there were quite a few differences between the two programs. But Richard (a smart guy) figured it out as he went along using the videos in my course to practice the same techniques in Open Office Impress and applied them.

So, if you’re considering creating a DVD case cover for your next product (it doesn’t make a difference if it’s a CD or a DVD), then I encourage you to try the DVD Cover Creation course. It’s only $20 dollars, and probably be the best $20 you’ll ever spend to learn how to design a case cover.

Interested?

Here’s the link to the course: DVD Case Cover Creation

- Aaron Brandon