Design music album cover art with photo manipulation, typography, and standard CD/vinyl dimensions.
This is a canvas-based editor for building a square album cover: place and crop a photo, add typography for artist/title, arrange layout elements, and export the flattened result. It offers preset canvas sizes matched to common release formats (digital streaming artwork, CD jewel-case insert, 12-inch vinyl jacket) so the composition starts at the right proportions. The most common surprise is that all three formats are 1:1 square, but their physical trim sizes differ in inches/mm, and a design built for on-screen streaming art is not automatically print-ready for a CD or vinyl jacket without checking your pressing plant's bleed and safe-margin requirements.
Choosing a target format (digital, CD insert, vinyl jacket) sets the working canvas to that format's square dimensions rather than leaving you to guess pixel counts. Digital art is commonly built at 3000x3000 px; CD and vinyl presets are sized to physical trim dimensions in inches/mm so photo and text placement scale correctly for the intended output.
Photos and text sit on independent layers that can be repositioned, cropped, and reordered; typography controls (font, size, tracking) apply per text layer. When finished, the composited canvas is flattened and exported as a raster image file (e.g. PNG or JPEG) at the working canvas's pixel dimensions, ready to upload or send to print.
Not necessarily. Pressing plants frequently require additional bleed and safe-zone margins beyond the flat trim dimensions, and exact templates vary by plant and packaging style. Use this tool's preset as a starting canvas, then confirm the plant's own print template before submitting final files.
A 3000x3000 px square image is the resolution commonly recommended for major streaming platforms, and the digital preset here targets that. Platform minimums do change over time, so double-check the current upload requirements on the platform itself before submitting.
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