Disc Cover Features

Vast Image Collection

Disc Cover comes with over 24,000 impressive high quality images (1,000 in the standard edition) to help spice up your music, photo and video collections, as well as data backup archives. You can also add images in a variety of formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PDF, GIF, EPS and more. You can locate images in the clipart collection or Internet by using the built-in search function.

Ready-Made Designs and Photo Collages

A collection of 130 professionally designed templates gives you a quick start to personalizing your discs. Not to mention that over 120 background designs and 30 distinctive, customizable photo collages along with the ability to create your own using Smart Shapes and the vast image library give you a world of design possibility.

An Abundance of Import Options

Disc Cover integrates with iLife, letting you preview and use data (text and images) from your iTunes, iPhoto and iDVD libraries. Also conveniently import photos from Aperture. In addition, you can import data straight from the CD or from tab-delimited text files.

Powerful Image and Photo Editing Capabilities

Disc Cover contains an intuitive and powerful image and photo editing tool powered by Image Tricks. Use over 60 Core Image effects and filters to jazz up your photos and images. Also choose from over 100 unique masks to apply to your images or simply use your own image as a mask. Tools in Inspector allow you to crop, tint, rotate and tile your images as well as control their transparency.

Striking 3D Text and Graphics

Integration with Art Text helps you put some life into album and disc names. Create brilliant textual graphics using all of the functions of Art Text and place them onto your design with a simple click of the mouse. Learn more about the Art Text Bonus App.

Easy-to-Use Text Tools

Create circle text to fit the curve of your discs and flow text from column to column in order to split a large text and place the segments in various places to better fit your design. Effortlessly create lists and choose from a variety of bullets. Control line and character spacing along with paragraph indentation and alignment.

Edit Objects with Ease

Creating a design has never been so easy! The smart guides make aligning objects in relation to one another a snap. The Background and Foreground layers help you create intricate designs without cluttering up your workspace with tons of objects. Also group objects together and edit and move them as one object. Fill objects with Linear or Radial gradient and add adjustable shadows.

LightScribe and Labelflash™ Support

Support for LightScribe and Labelflash™ allows you to burn your labels created in Disc Cover right onto the disc. Write text or draw graphics on the data side of the disc thanks to Labelflash™ and DiscT@2 support. Learn more about LightScribe and Labelflash.

Print on Label Paper or Directly on Disc

Disc Cover comes with an immense library of supported label paper formats from the most popular manufacturers, including Avery, Neato, Memorex and others. If your paper isn't supported, quickly and effortlessly create custom layouts. Disc Cover also gives you the opportunity to print directly on the disc using HP, Epson, Canon and other printers. See the full list of supported printers.

User-Friendly Interface

The straightforward and easy-to-use program interface will never leave you frustrated or confused. All the editing tools you need to create astonishing CD/DVD case elements are at your finger tips in Disc Cover's Inspector.

Preview and select the design you like from Assistant.	Edit design element as you feel needed.	Select the paper and elements to print.

All Features of Disc Cover

General

• 24,000+ high quality images (about 1,000 in the standard edition).
• 130 professionally designed templates for Music, Photos, DVD and Data Backup collections.
• 30+ photo collages to use with your designs.
• A collection of 120 background designs with the ability to add your own.
• Adjustable data format lets you specify the way it will appear on the document.
• Export results to JPEG, PDF and TIFF.
• Auto Save helps to restore documents after an unintentional computer shutdown.
• Quick Look support.
• English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese localizations available.
• Runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

Powerful Import

• iLife integration lets you preview and use data (text and images) from iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD libraries.
• Aperture integration allows to conveniently import photos into the program.
• Import data (Artist, Track Titles, etc.) from music CDs, Finder and tab-delimited text files.
• Imported data auto-fits the design.
• Insert images in many supported formats, like JPEG, TIFF, PDF, GIF, EPS and more.

Work with Graphics

• 100+ unique masks and option to use custom image as a mask.
• Smart guides help to align objects in respect to each other.
• Object grouping functionality.
• Background and Foreground layers help to create and edit advanced designs.
• Variety of Smart Shapes with controllable behavior.
• An option to fill Smart Shapes with pictures and make creative frames for your photos.
• Fill different objects with Linear or Radial gradients.
• Image Depot panel allows to store and generated images.
• Crop, tint, tile, rotate images and control transparency.
• Make use of adjustable shadows.
• Select multiple objects with the opportunity to resize and rotate them as a single item.
• Search images by keywords in the embedded clipart collection or Internet.
• Art Text integration to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons.

Advanced Text Editing

• Use circle text mode to design CDs.
• Flow text from column to column.
• Control line, character spacing and paragraph indention.
• Option to line up text into columns.
• Create a text list with a variety of bullets.
• Control transparency, rotate and fill text blocks with colors.

Printing Capabilities

• A huge library of label paper formats from the most popular manufacturers, including Avery, Neato, Memorex and others.
• Easy to create custom layouts for unsupported paper stock.
• Supports direct-on-CD printing, including DYMO DiscPainter printer.
• Printer calibration allows to fine-tune the printer for accurate results.
• Cut marks can be printed — helpful for printing on non-perforated paper.
• Print on most ink jet or laser printers.
• LightScribe support allows to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs.
• Labelflash™ support allows to burn designs directly onto discs.
• Labelflash™ and DiscT@2 support allows to etch text and graphics directly onto discs.