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10-11-02, 12:30 AM
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I've been having some problems priting covers. I tape the paper on the end of the sheet, and tell the printer it's legal size, and it still cuts off the same amount. I have three copies of the same DVD cover with the tiny bit missing! I'm going to have to figure out what to do with them!
I print with PSP, and I rotate the image 90 degrees first. A few months ago I printed off some covers, doing the same thing (at least I think so...) and they all printed off fine. |
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10-11-02, 01:17 AM
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Anyone have the Walt Disney Treasures that they could scan?? I'm only looking for Mickey Mouse In Living Color & Silly Symphonies.
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10-11-02, 03:28 AM
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That cover is amazing! Good Work
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10-11-02, 04:39 AM
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Yes, beautiful color.
Now someone get to work on a Fifth Element cover like in the last thread  I'm thinking Sabastian, or someone else over seas because I belive that poster is Europian so a scan would be easy over there... |
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10-11-02, 08:36 AM
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Cover Requests
Anyone have these that they could scan? I just recently got the Widescreen LD's transfered to DVD-R and need covers for them.
Howling II Dark Age Critters 2 The Golden Age Of Looney Toons (5 Volumes) Casper Happy Gilmore (DVD Cover Scan) The Monster Squad Grumpy Old Men (DVD Cover Scan) Grumpier Old Men (DVD Cover Scan) Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II Jaws 3 The Lawnmower Man (DVD Cover Scan) My Father The Hero Overnight Delivery Space Jam (NON-SE DVD Cover Scan) To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday Toy Soldiers Wyatt Earp Peter Benchley's The Beast Rattled Return Of The Living Dead Part II Crying Freeman (Live-Action Movie) The Ewok Adventure Ewoks: The Battle For Endor The Haunting (1963) Waterworld (DVD Cover Scan) The Frighteners (DVD Cover Scan) VHS Cover Scans would be fine for most of these PLEASE DO NOT E-MAIL ME ASKING TO BUY ANY OF THESE I DO NOT HAVE A DVD-R RECORDER AND IT IS ILLEGAL TO SELL COPIES OF ANY MOVIE NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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10-11-02, 09:54 AM
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Panic Room Cover
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10-11-02, 02:13 PM
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Re: Cover Requests
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10-11-02, 02:53 PM
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If you can clean them, I'll just scan them and mail them your way.
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10-11-02, 06:18 PM
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I need the following coverscans and inserts if anyone has them:
Any Which Way You Can Ben-Hur Bounce Bull Durham City of Angels Cleopatra (5star) Deep Cover Die Hard Die Hard 2: Die Harder Die Hard With a Vengeance The Doors (2-disc SE) Empire Records Every Which Way But Loose The French Connection (5star) Glory (2-disc SE) Jackie Brown Jackie Chan's First Strike The Lawnmower Man Love and Basketball Memphis Belle Near Dark The Neverending Story Old Yeller One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SE) The Outlaw Josey Wales The Royal Tenebaums (Criterion) Rumble in the Bronx Soldier The Sound of Music (5star) Spartacus (Criterion) Stuart Little (Widescreen) True Romance (DC) The World According to Garp Vision Quest Thanks. boku@comcast.net |
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10-12-02, 12:26 AM
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As some of you here may know I had recently created a matching set of Halloween covers for the entire series....Since it's Halloween and I was bored I decided to tinker with a set just for the Michael Myers Halloween's.
I was wondering if you could give me your opinions on the work in progress.....Halloween 4 front custom DVD proto Thanks, Chris |
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10-12-02, 12:09 PM
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In an effort to help folks who are posting requests for long lists of snapper conversions I thought I'd show what can be done with the program 'Photoshop Elements'. This is a very nice program with many of the features of the full 'Photoshop' program but with a much smaller price tag. The newest version (2.0) can be purchased for around $80 (recommended for XP users) and the older versions (1.0, 1.1) can be found on ebay for as little as $20 to $30.
Here are a few snapper conversions I did with 'Elements'. They are not simply scan and refit. Each has some custom elements that will be apparent if you have the originals to compare.     I can't begin to tell you how much fun this is. I've had this program for about 6 weeks and already I've converted about 65 snappers. Not content with simple scan and resize I always go for a little extra. For example you'll notice all the dumb slogans are removed from the 'Ghoststory' cover. Most also need to be centered for proper display on a keepcase. Recently I started removing the UPC seal (god are they ugly) whenever possible, as can be seen on 'Ghoststory and 'The Swarm'. Think I'll go back and remove them all! Of course thats my point! You can make all kinds of changes while at the same time eliminating the dred snapper. You can do this yourself and it doesn't have to cost a small fortune. Last edited by johnf14; 10-15-02 at 09:29 PM. |
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10-12-02, 12:20 PM
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Here's the latest snapper on working on! I can't make a choice as to which version to use as the final. One thing is for sure the original is bad news.
   Damn is this fun! The choices are endless! |
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10-12-02, 12:43 PM
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johnf14
The last Outbreak cover looks the best.
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10-12-02, 08:46 PM
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Nice job on those covers John, I like the last Outbreak cover...it's very Criterion like...
Chris |
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10-12-02, 09:33 PM
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New Halloween Customs
Here's 2 front covers I've finished,. I'm not sure about 2 things...BLue or gray fog, and what type of numbers Roman or Regular...What do you guys think...I'm doing these for a friend...
  The fog blends alot better at higher res, so you don't see all those waves on the finished one... Thanks, Chris |
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10-12-02, 09:42 PM
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John, I'm with everyone else on the Outbreak.
Also I wanna thank everyone for getting me most of the scans I needed. I only need these few now -VHS Cover Scans are OK- Casper Wyatt Earp Renaissance Man To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday Grumpier Old Men Dark Age Crying Freeman (I hear there's a R2 DVD) Ewoks: The Battle For Endor The Ewok Adventure: Caravan Of Courage Chris, I will e-mail you for the Grumpy scan in a little while
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10-12-02, 11:28 PM
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Hey Chris,
I'd go with the blue fog and the standard numerals look great with the title overlap. Nice job! John |
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10-12-02, 11:34 PM
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Anyone have a snapper scan of The Searchers?
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10-12-02, 11:56 PM
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I'm really torn about the numbers though. On some of them it looks better with Roman type....But I do think the blue fog looks better.... |
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10-13-02, 01:52 AM
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Count me among those itching for the return of DVD Cover Art...
I've seen a few requests in this thread and previous versions of it of covers I either scanned myself or downloaded from dvdcoverart.com before it went down. I think someone requested Shawshank Redemption? I've got a First Strike (Jackie Chan) cover and insert that I sent to Matt shortly before the site closed. Others that I sent him at that time include US Marshals, Bait, Without Limits, and 2 Days in the Valley. Since then, I've done a few others, including Digipack scans of Pulp Fiction CE and Jerry Maguire SE (single width spine for both). Before DVD Cover Art went down, I had put in a request for a number of covers not listed on the site. Here is the list again, with a status explanation accompanying several of them, plus 2 new ones: Anniversary Party * Artificial Intelligence * Bandits Basket, The * Brother * Don't Say a Word * Heist Lantana * Memento Novocaine * Nurse Betty * Pi * Shipping News, The Up at the Villa The ones marked with an asterisk (*) I was able to find low resolution scans at cdcovers.cc. I didn't expect much of them, but I was actually able to turn most of them into halfway decent covers by doing a lot of resolution conversion and resizing. The text is pretty blurry on the back, but except for a couple of them, they look pretty much like any other case on the shelf if you look at them from more than about 2 feet away... If anyone has a high res copy of any of those, I'd certainly rather the upgrade. If anyone is in need of something, I can send the converted low res version. One thing I've started doing differently is making single width cover art 3200 pixels wide instead of the recommended 3240. I found the latter is too wide for any cases I've seen. The only reason I didn't notice it initially is that my printer was cutting off the far right edge of the cover and keeping it close to the right size, but I was having a heck of a time getting the spine centered on the case... I saw another site recommed 3215 wide, which would probably fit, but 3200 doesn't leave much width to spare. Anyone else notice this? I think it was in Part IX of this thread that someone listed a nice Jurassic Park Trilogy custom cover. While I don't think I'll be going to a combined case for them, I did download it and tweak the text in the top red bar on the front cover to use the Jurassic Park font. If anyone's interested, I've got that variation of the cover and the free font (could easily email the font to anyone who wants it). I think that's all for now. Dan p.s. johnf14, have you considered trying a combination of versions 1 and 2 for the Outbreak cover, having the human faces along side the monkey face with a transitional fade in between? |
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10-13-02, 10:24 AM
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I'm in the process of doing a custom for Hollow Man, using the original poster art (the very simple "ghost"-ly image of Caine's face), but the new cover and spine don't match up well at all with the bright blue back of the standard cover. I considered just making it black & white, save for the studio logos, screen caps, and whatnot, but it still looks too busy when places along side the new cover. I'll probably end up making an entirely new back, but that's something I've never attempted before, so this might take a little while...
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10-13-02, 10:30 AM
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Actually, does anyone know if the thin, tall font:
 that's used for the credit listings on DVD sleeves is available for download someplace? I can see it coming in handy. |
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