{"id":72,"date":"2012-05-02T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:51:22","slug":"knocking-out-a-cd-artwork-for-silver-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/knocking-out-a-cd-artwork-for-silver-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Knocking out a CD artwork for silver exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common technique used by CD artwork designers is to expose the silver background of the disc to give the silver foil effect. \u00a0The technical term is knocking out. \u00a0When you knock an area on the artwork essentially you don&#8217;t print anything on it. \u00a0To communicate such an idea you should have a separate layer on the artwork to represent the knockout. \u00a0Another term you may want to know is called a white flood. \u00a0By white flooding, the silver CD will be covered with a white background first. \u00a0Doing so will make the later printing as if it is printed on a piece of white paper.<\/p>\n<p>Showing below are examples of knocking out, disc with a white flood, and disc without white flood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/knockout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73\" title=\"knockout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/knockout.jpg\" alt=\"Cd artwork knock out\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/knockout.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/knockout-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/knockout-500x192.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common technique used by CD artwork designers is to expose the silver background of the disc to give the silver foil effect. \u00a0The technical term is knocking out. \u00a0When you knock an area on the artwork essentially you don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/knocking-out-a-cd-artwork-for-silver-exposure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd-replication-tips","tag-knock-out","tag-silver-background","tag-transparent","tag-white-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}