Don't Forget To Rasterize When You Go

I spent most of yesterday working on the CD design for the Wesley Singers' 30th Anniversary record that's set to be unleashed on Blacksburg in mid-April. I was actually working under a severe time crunch, since to have the discs at our doorstep by Wesley Weekend, we needed to send out our graphics and master disc ... yesterday. I actually had already designed the layout, but I did it in Photoshop, which wasn't acceptable to our manufacturer for commercial printing.

So, I did what any fledgling graphic artist would do and gave myself a crash course in Adobe Illustrator at the New Media Center in Torgersen. I must thank the fine folks at Adobe for making such a brilliant program, because after the 30 minutes I spent panicking because I couldn't get any templates to open correctly, everything went smoothly. Thankfully, I recreated my design, improved on it a bit, and got it to Glenn in time to overnight it to our disc pressing company, Discmakers (who are very professional, by the way). Boo-yah.

I think the design came out pretty well given the circumstances. I probably would have toyed with some of the advanced features in Illustrator if I'd had the time, but here's a low-res version of it, coming to a Wesley Weekend near you this spring: