How Do You Create Album Artwork For Itunes?
Ever since Apple Computer released the first iPod—what Wired Magazine called “The Perfect Thing”—and revolutionized the music business, more and more music fans are trading their physical music for audio computer files. Making the move from traditional music listening habits (records and CDs) to digital media (computers and iPods) is a fairly straight-forward process. Many programs exist that will allow you to digitize your record collection and allow for listening on your computer or your portable digital media player. Also, music can easily be downloaded using online shops like the iTunes Store and Amazon.com. Digitizing the album art for your records and CDs can take a bit of doing, but learning how to create album artwork for iTunes can be easily mastered. CD album art can be digitized using a computer scanner. Scan the artwork at 72 DPI, and save the image to your desktop as a JPEG image file. Remember, computer screen resolution is only 72 DPI, so scanning the image at a high
