The Cover Project
General Category => News and Announcements => Topic started by: tiktektak on June 10, 2007, 05:24:10 AM
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Hey everyone!
I know it's been said before and again and again BUT please please people out there who want to contribute bear in mind that there are standards for our project which should be obeyed!!!!!!!!
The MINIMUM dots per inch(dpi) used when uploading a finished cover should be 300!
The MINIMUM dpi used when uploading a RAW scan should be 300 but for working on the scan 600dpi are prefered(just for RAWS)!
The resolution of the covers are all standardized! Please take a look here and always triple check if your finished covers/cover scans have the right resolution for the cases you made them for.
Always look here to decide which dimensions you go for and keep them in mind please:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=39.0 (http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=39.0)
You may be asking yourself why that is so important. It's not because we want to stress you or order you around! It's just because every cover which was wrong sized has to be resized and corrected prior to posting by us admins and that's much more work than just thumbing and posting the covers(which is allready enough to do)! :)
If the dpi are wrong it's even worse because if the cover is too low res(e.g. 200dpi or 150dpi or 96dpi or 72dpi => I saw them all!) we can't use them for the site because when scaling up to the correct dpi the covers often won't look that good anymore which is against the mission statement of this site!
We want to provide the best looking covers on the net and we need all off you to help us maintain these high standards! So please check the standards, make your cover, triple check if everything is allright when you're done and then post it!
Every single contribution is more then appreciated! It makes my heart jump when I see how much love there is out there for preserving artwork for generations of videogames! It just makes me feel soooooo sad when there are so many covers which can't be used because something uncorrectable is wrong with them!
So again thanks for everyone helping to make our site the best video game cover site ever!
Keep up the good work and keep the standards in mind! ;D
Best Regards Sebastian
EDIT:
One last thing. Please don't forget to turn "de-rasterize" on when scanning!!!! Otherwise the scans look awfully dot-ed...... :)
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Now hopefully the really last but nonetheless extremly importing thing! Please never ever use this in your filenames.... " ' ".... Because names like "Acer's quest" for example cause the ftp to make the file unusable. I don't know why but these files can't be moved nor deleted nor downloaded nothing.... So please never use the ' in your filenames!!!!!!! Thanks again!
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I'm sorry, I could not resist ... ;D
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Nice post. Quality is certainly one of the biggest differentiators for this site (amonst all the other cover sites out there).
Also, not to be an ass, but it might be nice if you went back over your original post and fixed some of those typos and spelling errors, mostly because your post appears on the front page of the site and you're now representing the entire site with your post :)
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Nice post. Quality is certainly one of the biggest differentiators for this site (amonst all the other cover sites out there).
Also, not to be an ass, but it might be nice if you went back over your original post and fixed some of those typos and spelling errors, mostly because your post appears on the front page of the site and you're now representing the entire site with your post :)
Just checked it for spelling errors and typos.... Hope it's better now.... You know I wrote it fast and didn't check it thoroughly enough.... Sorry... A yes and besides I'm not a native speaker(I'm austrian).....
Regards Seb
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Hey Sebastian... speaking of that......
how are things down under?
;D
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Hey Sebastian... speaking of that......
how are things down under?
;D
;D ;D ;D
You really don't want to know how often austria is mistaken for australia by foreigners(especially americans ;) )....
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Just checked it for spelling errors and typos.... Hope it's better now.... You know I wrote it fast and didn't check it thoroughly enough.... Sorry... A yes and besides I'm not a native speaker(I'm austrian).....
Regards Seb
Yeah, I figured you wrote it quickly so it was mostly just typos. I forgot you were over in Austria; that makes the post more impressive, in that case. I certainly don't speak German (is that the main language there? I'm ignorant :( )
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Just checked it for spelling errors and typos.... Hope it's better now.... You know I wrote it fast and didn't check it thoroughly enough.... Sorry... A yes and besides I'm not a native speaker(I'm austrian).....
Regards Seb
Yeah, I figured you wrote it quickly so it was mostly just typos. I forgot you were over in Austria; that makes the post more impressive, in that case. I certainly don't speak German (is that the main language there? I'm ignorant :( )
It's not that bad.... :) You're certainly not ignorant.... After all the post is at the front page and is representing the whole idea of the site.... So I should rather thank you for pointing it out!
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Hey Sebastian... speaking of that......
how are things down under?
;D
;D ;D ;D
You really don't want to know how often austria is mistaken for australia by foreigners(especially americans ;) )....
Yea, Yea...Austria, Australia.... what's the difference?
You do know that I am just joking, right?
(Remember, I sent you a package... I know where you live ;D )
AND REMEMBER:
Die Post is am Sonntag geschlossen!
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And where's my Viagra .....er ..... N64 package then eh? ;D
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And where's my Viagra .....er ..... N64 package then eh? ;D
yea, yea, again.....
Austria, Australia, New Zealand.... Whats the difference?
and the package will be mailed when I get home. (The check is in the mail)
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ROFLMAO!!!!!
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Hey Sebastian... speaking of that......
how are things down under?
;D
;D ;D ;D
You really don't want to know how often austria is mistaken for australia by foreigners(especially americans ;) )....
Yea, Yea...Austria, Australia.... what's the difference?
You do know that I am just joking, right?
(Remember, I sent you a package... I know where you live ;D )
AND REMEMBER:
Die Post is am Sonntag geschlossen!
I know that you're joking.... Me too....
Where the heck did you get this german sentence? ;D ;D
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Oh, sorry........
it should be
Die Post ist am Sonntag geschlossen!
I can't spell either....... (Sorry I have not been to Germany since 1983)
its just a true statement..... ;D
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Hey Sebastian... speaking of that......
how are things down under?
;D
;D ;D ;D
You really don't want to know how often austria is mistaken for australia by foreigners(especially americans ;) )....
Well....we do both live south of Germany I guess ::)
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Yeah...kinda like how Americans think Canada is a giant ski resort and you can go snowboarding in Toronto in July ;)
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It's not?
;)
Lumberjack42
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Yeah...kinda like how Americans think Canada is a giant ski resort and you can go snowboarding in Toronto in July ;)
I certainly thought it was too........
skiing or hockey playing.... ya'll love that up there.... ;D
I have also seen something called 'curling' up there, too..... looks like a wild game.....
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Sorry I have not been to Germany since 1983
Are you sure it wasn't 1943 old man? ;D
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Yeah...kinda like how Americans think Canada is a giant ski resort and you can go snowboarding in Toronto in July ;)
I certainly thought it was too........
skiing or hockey playing.... ya'll love that up there.... ;D
I have also seen something called 'curling' up there, too..... looks like a wild game.....
Oh I love curling a lot more than hockey actually. but its not really wild in any sense of the word!
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Yeah...kinda like how Americans think Canada is a giant ski resort and you can go snowboarding in Toronto in July ;)
I certainly thought it was too........
skiing or hockey playing.... ya'll love that up there.... ;D
I have also seen something called 'curling' up there, too..... looks like a wild game.....
WELL, YEA... I was just being funny.......... its a wierd game.....
Oh I love curling a lot more than hockey actually. but its not really wild in any sense of the word!
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Yeah...kinda like how Americans think Canada is a giant ski resort and you can go snowboarding in Toronto in July ;)
I certainly thought it was too........
skiing or hockey playing.... ya'll love that up there.... ;D
I have also seen something called 'curling' up there, too..... looks like a wild game.....
The best curling scene is in the Beatle's movie Help! Those fiendish thingys!
Lumberjack42
Oh I love curling a lot more than hockey actually. but its not really wild in any sense of the word!
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Curling over hockey? I never thought I'd hear anyone say that out loud :) In Germany even women's soccer is more popular than curling and hardly anyone gives a flying fart about women's soccer here :D (although our women's team is #2 in the worldwide FIFA ranking and reigning World Champions)
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I get into Hurling. Great sport ..... just a shame you feel so sick prior to the main event though. The helicopter hurl .... also known as the 1080 ... is spectacular for both entrants and bystanders alike ;D
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I get into Hurling. Great sport ..... just a shame you feel so sick prior to the main event though. The helicopter hurl .... also known as the 1080 ... is spectacular for both entrants and bystanders alike ;D
OK, that's it! no more boxes (soup) for YOU!
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ahahaha this thread has gone off topic to hell.
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It's not like this thread was there to start a profound discussion. tiktektak said everything there was to say, so why not take the thread and run with it :D
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Agreed. (with everything?) I have no idea ???
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I get into Hurling. Great sport ..... just a shame you feel so sick prior to the main event though. The helicopter hurl .... also known as the 1080 ... is spectacular for both entrants and bystanders alike ;D
OK, that's it! no more boxes (soup) for YOU!
Ahhh!!! I misheard. You mean Curling which is short for Co-Hurling ... the 2 player version where you link arms back to back for 2 sided action. Wow!!! I've never participated in THAT one :D
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I get into Hurling. Great sport ..... just a shame you feel so sick prior to the main event though. The helicopter hurl .... also known as the 1080 ... is spectacular for both entrants and bystanders alike ;D
OK, that's it! no more boxes (soup) for YOU!
Ahhh!!! I misheard. You mean Curling which is short for Co-Hurling ... the 2 player version where you link arms back to back for 2 sided action. Wow!!! I've never participated in THAT one :D
Do they have separate mens and womens divisions?
Lumberjack42
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HEY!
My avatar came back.........
cool.
;D
Now, what were we talking about?
Oh yeah, 300 DPI PEOPLE!
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Avatar....errr...what Avatar.
I might need my eyes tested!!!
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Avatar....errr...what Avatar.
I might need my eyes tested!!!
Well, it shows up on my computer, now.......
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Nope ..... still get the non-writeable error here
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Nope ..... still get the non-writeable error here
Ok thats wierd, I see yours and mine on this computer....
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We get avatars?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Whoo-Hoo!!!
Okay, I'm finished.
Lumberjack42