Cover Quality Discussion

[larryinc64]

For the Mario cover. . .

Back Cover Image

Found a good picture of the back of the box, I would also like the front image so I can make a Horizontal retail cover. Your clean up looks better than mine.

[Dravenae]

Educate yourself, this isn't some fucking Photoshop babysitting site.

I think you missed my point entirely.

Up till now I've seen the argument from both angles, but the lack of reading and sense of entitlement from some users On here lately is mind blowing.

*sighs* I know what you mean bro.

[Misanthroat]

Educate yourself, this isn't some fucking Photoshop babysitting site.

Up till now I've seen the argument from both angles, but the lack of reading and sense of entitlement from some users On here lately is mind blowing.

P.S. Shenske, your SNES template sti'll needs some fixes mate, want me to PM you about it?

I don't think Dravenae wants to be hand-held through cover creation... just some feedback for improvement. This is also where I am having some frustrations. I get told that a few of my covers are not up to quality but am not told which ones need fixes or even if all of the covers have even been looked at.. Is just one or 2 getting looked at and so the whole lot is not inspected? just some more detail reasoning would be nice.

[Azarkhel]

Start a thread for your work, upload WIPs of your covers for others to give feedback on. The cover admins don't have time to reply and give notes on every submission, they've made this pretty clear over the last few weeks.

[Rx_79]

I just want to add something that I didn't know was happening.  In hopes to prevent some problems that I encountered.  If you are use gimp always watch the image quality when you save.  Sometimes gimp, for what ever reason will save a image at less quality.   So you might start with a high quality image but end with something of far less quality. Just make sure the slider stays at 100% every time you save.

Gimp is free so I guess you get what you pay for.

[larryinc64]

I just want to add something that I didn't know was happening.  In hopes to prevent some problems that I encountered.  If you are use gimp always watch the image quality when you save.  Sometimes gimp, for what ever reason will save a image at less quality.   So you might start with a high quality image but end with something of far less quality. Just make sure the slider stays at 100% every time you save.

Gimp is free so I guess you get what you pay for.

If you are saving as a .JPEG, that is also with Photoshop. JPGs are compressed, so the image will lose quality. I always save as a PNG, no quality loss.
Think of it this way:
PNG - WAV or FLAC
JPG - MP3

[Arseen]

Somewhat strange to show progress on cleaning a file via an animated GIF (due to the massive degradation of quality when exporting) but the Mario Preschool art has been extended and cleaned. Just need a template to drop it into.



Here's a static version in a higher quality file format.



Tiny bit more cleaning required, maybe a little colour balancing and yeah. That'll be that!

Me and atleast one another member highly waiting for the image...

[Azarkhel]

I was going to do the whole cover, however I'll just upload the image for you lads to finish it. Got a couple technical issues holding me back from completing it.

[Arseen]

I was going to do the whole cover, however I'll just upload the image for you lads to finish it. Got a couple technical issues holding me back from completing it.

Sweet! Thank you.

[larryinc64]

I was going to do the whole cover, however I'll just upload the image for you lads to finish it. Got a couple technical issues holding me back from completing it.

Great! I'm going to make a retail cover with it. I found some good images of the back for reference.

[Azarkhel]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ia0gvsrcs5d9rdt/MarPSF_CLEAN.png

[larryinc64]

Almost done with the retail cover.  If anyone wants to type up the back copyright info and description, a image is HERE

Lets further this discussion over in the SNES Cover Topic.

[Rx_79]

I just want to add something that I didn't know was happening.  In hopes to prevent some problems that I encountered.  If you are use gimp always watch the image quality when you save.  Sometimes gimp, for what ever reason will save a image at less quality.   So you might start with a high quality image but end with something of far less quality. Just make sure the slider stays at 100% every time you save.

Gimp is free so I guess you get what you pay for.

If you are saving as a .JPEG, that is also with Photoshop. JPGs are compressed, so the image will lose quality. I always save as a PNG, no quality loss.
Think of it this way:
PNG - WAV or FLAC
JPG - MP3

I think that's one of the things new cover makers dont know.  Heck I didnt.  Because of that alot of my earlier made covers suffered that fate.

[e_brugal]

I just want to add something that I didn't know was happening.  In hopes to prevent some problems that I encountered.  If you are use gimp always watch the image quality when you save.  Sometimes gimp, for what ever reason will save a image at less quality.   So you might start with a high quality image but end with something of far less quality. Just make sure the slider stays at 100% every time you save.

Gimp is free so I guess you get what you pay for.

If you are saving as a .JPEG, that is also with Photoshop. JPGs are compressed, so the image will lose quality. I always save as a PNG, no quality loss.
Think of it this way:
PNG - WAV or FLAC
JPG - MP3

I think that's one of the things new cover makers dont know.  Heck I didnt.  Because of that alot of my earlier made covers suffered that fate.

I didn't knew that, i always save in JPG format  , i will start saving in PNG format

[tiktektak]

I just want to add something that I didn't know was happening.  In hopes to prevent some problems that I encountered.  If you are use gimp always watch the image quality when you save.  Sometimes gimp, for what ever reason will save a image at less quality.   So you might start with a high quality image but end with something of far less quality. Just make sure the slider stays at 100% every time you save.

Gimp is free so I guess you get what you pay for.

If you are saving as a .JPEG, that is also with Photoshop. JPGs are compressed, so the image will lose quality. I always save as a PNG, no quality loss.
Think of it this way:
PNG - WAV or FLAC
JPG - MP3

I think that's one of the things new cover makers dont know.  Heck I didnt.  Because of that alot of my earlier made covers suffered that fate.

I didn't knew that, i always save in JPG format  , i will start saving in PNG format

Jup that's one reason though jpg artifacting is only marginally visible at hg settings.

Still I always scan as a TIFF and work in photoshop as a psd. Still in the end you have to go the jpg. route as we only host those due to space issues.