Time for action — creating a new CD cover

Imagine that you would like to use Inkscape to design and create a simple CD cover for a new music compilation you created. Here's how to get started and open a predefined template in Inkscape:

  1. Open Inkscape, and from the main menu, select File | New | CD_cover_300dpi.
    Time for action — creating a new CD cover
  2. A new document opens to the correct dimensions.
    Time for action — creating a new CD cover

What just happened?

Quite simply, these steps just opened up a new file in Inkscape to the exact dimensions of a CD cover.

With the autodefined templates, it takes the guesswork out of dimensions and ...

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