Label Design Software

[TimmyR]

What do you use to design labels?

[Blowmax10]

What do you use to design labels?

photo shop

[Bugeater]

I stick to pretty simple labels. I use the jar/product label template in Microsoft Publisher. You can import all sorts of graphics to it.

Wayne

[Datamike]

OpenOffice! Free and works just like Microsoft Office.

http://www.openoffice.org

[BlueLoon]

I Google for images or label examples I want to mimic.
You can use https://www.photoshop.com/ to do some minimal editing for free.
Or a desktop image software. There are many tutorials for most of these online.

Print a sample on plain paper before using label paper. Things on screen often look better than on paper.

[gbob]

I'm strictly photoshop, and it turns out pretty nice. Here's an example of how I build my labels.

Here's an example of one of my labels;



The first thing I do is take some clip art. Now, this picture was from a Russian propoganda poster. I had to heavily modify it in photoshop, but at the end of it I had something I could use for the basis of a label.



Now, most of my labels have a similar look and feel. You can see them at http://picasaweb.google.com/bobroland/BeerLabels#. To achieve this, I overlay an oval on the original image. Here's the oval I use;



Then it's a matter of adding the text. Easy as pie.

I print them out on regular paper, grab a basting brush and a bowl of milk and paint the back of the labels. It sticks just fine, and is easy to remove after.

[TimmyR]

They look great...thinking about the "light" version of Photoshop for Mac....I'll keep digging, but thnx. I have a photo I want to turn into a silhouette that is black and white and then use as the baseline for all my labels. I cannot seem to find the right tool in iPhoto.

Cheers,

[popihead]

Adobe InDesign for layout, Illustrator and or Photoshop to create source images or to adjust them. InDesign lets you control lots of aspects of the image process.