If you can push a button you can make art

[roger d]

At least that was the hype that pulled me to this site. N gen design is a new way of making a quick cd cover. Useing design moduals you simply type in the artist or whatever and some titles or words and press the n gen button until a design of your liking comes up.
This little program is free for 60 days. I did not see if you could buy the official program. This thing is in beta. My first attempt was pretty cool and very easy. I did run it through my label maker program and added some bold type on top and then printed duel copies.
Designed by Move you can find it at<http://www.n-generate.com/>. It has five seperate design componets that can be downloaded in pieces. It's fast and arty but the tools do not seem to work. To really benefit from this program you will still need a label making program like CD stomper or Data Brecker to add bold type and print more than one copy at a time.
If anyone shows any interest in this post I will add some more details and experiments. It sure beats naked cd's with ink marks!

[Roamerick]

Nasty stuff. I'll stick with Photoshop and some creativity, thanks.

[roger d]

but this is a quick fix to get something with some design and may have some value. When I use this method I will run it through Photoshop to get the image exactly right. What do you mean by nasty?

[Roamerick]

Oh, I just meant some of the design screenshots on the site... nasty! :black

[roger d]

I generated this cover in about 3 minutes. One problem downloading cover art from the web is the quality is generally poor. Even with a powerful art program like Photoshop you really can not do much with a 72 dpi file. I am thinking about this issue to assist the art impared. This is the image I generated:

[roger d]

we will try that again:

[Bill Rexford]

What I and a few others were doing in the old Napster days. We would scan the covers of our store bought CD's and share them.