PHOTOSHOP® CS DOWN & Dirty TRICKS

DVD Packaging

In Chapter 4 of this book, I showed you how to create a DVD disc and then showed how to make it look as if the disc was protruding from a 3D DVD package because right now, that's what everybody seems to be doing to make it clear that the package contains a DVD, not a VHS tape. In the effect here, I show you how to take a flat photo and create the 3D DVD package that we used in the earlier project.

Quick Tip: Getting rid of onscreen jaggies Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you're viewing your Photoshop document some edges, or even type, can look jaggy? That happens when you view your document at sizes other than 100%, 50%, 25%, or 12.5%. For example, when you view your document at 66.67% (a common size when you zoom in ...