NEW Segamer 2.0 NES Covers Limited

[segamer]

As I mentioned. I'll start providing my source material.

For Sqoon, this was the image used for the cover. I also included a side by side screenshots to show how I cleaned it up.





For L'Empereur, I used a scan of the poster that comes with the game. Of course, it's been cleaned as it was originally folded in the box.



For the upcoming Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, I'm using this image which is the poster as well.


 


The scans provide by Arseen for the Blue Marlin can be found on this thread. It's not problem for me to clean up the fish and upgrade the resolution because it's a drawing but the ocean was actually a photograph. There's no way for me to upgrade the ocean for that cover.

[tiktektak]

This is why L'Empereur passed and Romance I suppose will as well. Because the images you worked with were big to begin with (poster = big). The upgrade on Squoon is substantial especially on the logo (as most of the time logos look pretty good even from bad sources after good work) but still the sib, the sharks and the water in the back is sadly not good enough. Still really good work considering the source was a tiny manual. You know high dpi is nice but still the size stays small as the art on the manual is tiny.

[LazyDane]

Thanks for the breakdown Segamer, it's pretty fascinating seeing what you had to work with. as far as I'm concerned Sqoon looks pretty darn amazing all things considered, as for the other two "L'Empereur/Romance of the Three Kingdoms II", simply put, they look perfect... though no surprise right, I mean between your cover crafting skills and the front images originating from posters, talk about killer combo!!!

[segamer]

@ tiktektak
You're right. Maybe one day I'll get better images and can replace the art for Sqoon, Blue Marlin and Bandit Kings.

@ LazyDane
Thank you. I appreciate the complements. It was a lot of work and I tried my best to hit that 100% retail mark with what I had.

[shenske]

Closest i could find for the spine



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[segamer]

Retail

http://www.mediafire.com/download/h0mfl38bg01z60x/Uncharted_Waters_Retail_Update.jpg

TCP

http://www.mediafire.com/download/sjjkgwsd3pyyw2f/Uncharted_Waters_TCP_Update.jpg

Retail

http://www.mediafire.com/download/99vr9d5vadx9wpf/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_II_RETAIL_UD.jpg

TCP

http://www.mediafire.com/download/n39ujfax3hanb37/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_II_TCP_UD.jpg

[segamer]

I did open this thread exclusively for NES covers. However, since I already did the hard work for NES versions of these covers, It was easy to transfer the artwork, logos and text over to the SNES template.


SNES Uncharted Waters: http://www.mediafire.com/download/9bybg78woan8ttl/Uncharted_Snes.jpg


SNES Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: http://www.mediafire.com/download/jhhza6zh66la2kc/Romance_SNES.jpg

[e_brugal]

As always , your works are excellent 

[Arseen]

Well, well, well
Segamer decided to return to the SNEes covers... good as we need those.

I'll scrutanize them and bicker if I find anything to fix.

Thank you.

[Arseen]

On the kingdoms cover the loweast screenshot has black borders betwen the image and the border.

And on the waters cover the arangement of the back logo is bit wierd looking.

But I can fix those.

Otherwise nice covers.
Very big thank you.

[segamer]

On the kingdoms cover the loweast screenshot has black borders betwen the image and the border.

And on the waters cover the arangement of the back logo is bit wierd looking.

But I can fix those.

Otherwise nice covers.
Very big thank you.

No Problem. I can provide you with the Photoshop files if you wish.

[Arseen]

Thank you, but as Paint.net struggles with PSDs, I think it's easier for me to strip the stuff away from the covers themselves.

[Azarkhel]

Thank you, but as Paint.net struggles with PSDs, I think it's easier for me to strip the stuff away from the covers themselves.

This sentence horrifies me...

[Arseen]

Thank you, but as Paint.net struggles with PSDs, I think it's easier for me to strip the stuff away from the covers themselves.

This sentence horrifies me...

Huh?

[FritzWhite]

I thought all the pros use photoshop and noobs like myself stay in the mspaint kiddy pool (put that hammer away! not calling you a noob, ha ha)