tutorials on cleaning images

[pepsidrinker]

Does anyone know of good tutorials that will help a beginner with cleaning up raw images and generally doing what the site is about, I have around 80 playstation games and other games for other systems that aren't on the project. I don't know photoshop or the gimp so either software is fine with me.

I tried searching but received no results.

thanks,

[Doom]

Haven't had the time for a full guide on cleaning up raws. If you do have high quality scans (check my scanning guide if you don't know how to scan) at the least you can upload them here. http://www.thecoverproject.net/upload.php (be sure to check "this is a raw scan")

It's hard to explain it, but a good way to learn is practice. It's how I learned. (with a little bit of help when I got stuck)
The software I use is free and called paint.net. I'd say it's pretty user friendly. Although it's not as advanced as Photoshop or the GIMP. It can't open the *.psd extention, which is what many of the templates on the site are in.

[pepsidrinker]

Thanks, I will give that a try, nothing wrong from learning by trial and error.

I will start uploading the raw scans, when I get good enough I want to make covers for the jewel case and dvd size.

playstation doesn't have front covers, you use the front of the manual for that I assume.

[Doom]

Yes you are correct, PS1 manuals are also the front cover.

[Aganar]

For single-disk games. Multi-disk games usually had a large case to hold them all in, which had its own cover insert.

[Bungleboss]

For single-disk games. Multi-disk games usually had a large case to hold them all in, which had its own cover insert.

European PS1 games also have a separate insert for the cover. Same as the Dreamcast games.

[KaiserWAVE]

Yep, that's because we got these bulky double wide CD cases for PS1 and DC games while The US had standard jewel cases.