Software for making blu-ray covers?

[notman]

My apologies if this has been addressed somewhere before, but I tried to search and couldn't find anything.

I am looking for a decent program that will make blu-ray covers. I like to record certain HDTV shows to AVCHD and would like to store them with my blu-ray discs. (I only record stuff that doesn't come out on blu-ray or at least DVD.) I'm not very artistic but I would like to at least have some text on the cases so I can identify what the discs are from the cover. I have searched the web several times and I have come up empty-handed with one exception. That exception was Ashampoo Cover Stuido 2, but it costs $20 and I didn't think it was very good from when I used a trial version of it. I may settle on that, but I don't want to.
Most things that come up in search results are only for DVD and CD cases, but the page has the word "blu-ray" on it somewhere. I would even be happy with just a Word document template, but I don't know how to design one.

Thanks in advance.

[kpkelley]

The standard would be Photoshop, but that is expensive. You could go with Corel PaintShop Pro, which is significantly cheaper, but still costs a pretty penny.

Make sure to download a template for a blu-ray cover, or create your own. There is a Custom Cover group as well as a dedicated thread which you should peruse.

I use CoverXP to print my blu-ray covers.

[notman]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

The standard would be Photoshop, but that is expensive. You could go with Corel PaintShop Pro, which is significantly cheaper, but still costs a pretty penny.

Make sure to download a template for a blu-ray cover, or create your own. There is a Custom Cover group as well as a dedicated thread which you should peruse.

I use CoverXP to print my blu-ray covers.

Thanks for the info.
I see lots of amazing cover art pieces, but is there something with just the correct dimensions where I can edit the text and maybe paste a picture into to make a simple cover for a TV show? I'm not trying to have custom covers for movies I buy.

Thanks.

[BluLobsta]

I'm a firm believer in Open Source stuff, since most of us aren't corporations that have the cash to shell out for Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. and most of the time it is perfectly suitable for general use. Check out...

Scribus

and

OpenOffice

[OrlandoEastwood]

The GIMP! It's a free program that's like photoshop. I used it for my time as a custom cover designer.

[BluMedia]

You might want to try the free download of Open Office Draw at openoffice.org and then go to Open Office Templates and there is a Blu-ray case insert cover template there
It is compatible with the Legal size Blu-ray cover sheets found at cleareyesmedia.com or professionallabel.com

[kangshifu]

Hi,guys, my pleasure to give you my suggestions. I use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper rip my Blu-ray discs, no other software, and only 49 dollars;
You can find this Blu-ray Ripper here:

blu-raydiscripper.org

AnyDVD HD is good at removing all sorts of BD protections, but when it comes to file size compression, it can not do anything about it. What a pity!

[notman]

Shouldn't that post be deleted for everyone's safety?

[notman]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Read the sticky. No discussion about the circumvention of BD+ protection or other similar protection schemes. Your post was also not even thread related either. Mod please delete post.

He was even banned, so I don't know why the post wasn't deleted.