gHacks technology news » create covers http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Print Covers Easily With Undercover XP http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/17/print-covers-easily-with-undercover-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/17/print-covers-easily-with-undercover-xp/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:17:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9101 If you backup CDs or DVDs of movies, games or applications regularly you might also want to attach the right cover to it so that it becomes easier to recognize the contents of the backup without having to look at the actual media.

Some DVD burning software programs come with so called cover designers that can be used to design custom covers for the burned disks. Many users on the other hand prefer the original covers for their backups and this is what Undercover XP is all about

Undercover XP is a cover printing software that can turn images into DVD covers. It is best used with a website offering those covers for download. Some websites that are recommended by the developers of Undercover XP are Free Covers or CD Covers.

The process has been streamlined and involves only a few steps in the best case scenario. You start by downloading a cover from the Internet or by scanning a cover from the original disk. You usually get one image that contains both the front and back or two images depicting the front and back. These images can then be added to Undercover XP and printed from within the program interface.

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Undercover XP supports a wide variety of cover formats from various DVD or CD Box cover formats to covers for games for the Playstation 3, Wii or Playstation Portable or high definition covers for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies.

The software will try to automatically detect the format of the loaded image and correct the orientation as well. It will also position the cover correctly in the printable area so that all of the image will be printed on the printer.

A cover image can simply be loaded by clicking on the left or right image placeholders. This opens a browse computer dialog to load an image. It is furthermore possible to change the format in a pulldown menu in case the program got or you have decided to print it in a different format. The image will be automatically adjusted to the new cover format.

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Once the image has been adjusted and the right cover format has been selected it can be printed on a connected printer. It is possible to print everything on a single page to save paper.

Undercover XP comes with a cover format editor. The format editor can be used to edit, add or delete cover formats to the software program.

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This can be very helpful if you want to print covers that are not in a default format that ship with the software. Everything from position to paper tray sizes, printer media types and paper sources can be defined in the format editor.

Undercover XP ships with 25 different languages. It is compatible not only to Windows XP but also to Windows Vista and Windows 2000.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/17/print-covers-easily-with-undercover-xp/feed/ 2 Print Covers using Undercover XP http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:27:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/print-covers-using-undercover-xp/ Burning CDs or DVDs has a distinctive disadvantage over purchased media. The self created audio, video or data CDs and DVDs have no initial cover artwork. This makes them rather unattractive if you want to give them to someone else or put them into a rack. It probably does not matter if you just use them to backup files or burn one use audio or video CDs and DVDs but I think it does make a difference for media that you want to keep for a longer time. The key to create great front and back covers is a program that makes it as easy as possible to do so.

create covers Undercover XP is such a freeware that makes it very easy to create covers in the correct size for many different types of media. This includes covers for CDs and DVDs, DVD boxes, inlays, Playstation backs and Digital Pictures.

Just add a image in formats such as jpg, bmp, gif or png to Undercover XP and the tool will automatically resize the image to the right format for the selected media.

Undercover XP comes equipped with a format editor that makes it easy to add new formats for media that you own. Just add a new format with the exact sized that you want it to be.

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