Be sure to get in writing what other uses will or will not be made of that art! If they also print it, or elements of it, on the CD itself, no big deal... part of the package... but if they use it in ads, on t-shirts, coffee-cups, billboards, whatever, that is all further use and needs additional compensation. I've done covers for both game and music CDs. There are templates, but you should find out what the printer requires. Sometimes you'll be lucky and only need to supply square-formatted art (tiff or png... non lossy!), but I prefer to do the layout of any titling (after one publisher used Helvetica-gag!). An experienced printer can not only save you grief and time, but will have the right paper for the job so that your art looks fresh. Another issue: CMYK! We are so used to seeing the tonal range of a monitor that it is easy to forget that printer's inks will not reproduce some of these colors quite as brilliantly. Blues and purples don't fare well at all. After you have your image, stand back about 6-8 feet if possible to determine legibility. Tiny details will get lost in the printing process and you'll want to catch the eye of anybody passing by a table or shop window. Sometimes you'll need to be intricate, and sometimes you'll need to be bold. Once the customer has the object in hand and is reading the back, half the sale is made. Our job is to get them to pick it up for closer examination. HTH, Carolly