Setting up DVD case inlay template

To get to this point I had to go to File, and click New, in order to create a new Photoshop document so that I could start creating my template. Above is a screenshot of the details of my DVD inlay template, as you can see I changed the measurements to millimeters. The width is set as 276mm, although it should be 272mm, but I added 4mm so I could have a 2mm bleed area on the left and right side of the template. The height is set at 188mm, although again it should be 184mm, but I added an extra 4mm of space in order to have a 2mm bleed area at the top and bottom of the template. For the resolution I changed it to pixels per inch (dots per inch/DPI) and put 300 for the resolution, this will be for when it gets printed, and i left the color mode as CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, back) because that is what is used by printing companies. Also, I left the background contents as transparent so that I can create the template without having a fixed colour, and it not being locked. For the DPI, I have set it to 300 pixels per inch (PPI), so that when it is printed it will be in good quality.

 

When I had created my file I began to add guide lines for the DVD, on the left hand side, the vertical lines indicate the bleed area, the limit before the bleed area and the safety area, this goes for the vertical lines in the middle as well which are for the spine of the DVD, as well as for the right hand side. Also, for the top and bottom, the one at the top indicates the bleed area, then the one in the middle the limit before the bleed area, and then the one below that being the safety area.