My First Cover

[araden64]

Hey guys, I really needed a Super Thunder Blade cover and there didn't seem to be any done already so I took a shot at it.

I'm not too good with photoshop but I think it came out pretty well.  Let me know what you guys think.

I wanted to thank Akrate for the raw scan and Badchad for the template.

Universal Game Case:  http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_-_ugc_-_araden64.jpg

Genesis Case:  http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_-_genesis_-_araden64.jpg

[palmer6strings]

If you are looking for site standard then here is my opinion.

I think the main cover needs cleaned up quite a bit. I can see a bunch of moire. Same for the back images.

I'm not sure it's just me, but the Genesis logo looks screwed up.

The "Super Thunder Blade" Should be vectored. Would look a lot better. Plus the T in Thunder on the front has a stray black dot in it.

All in all its a decent cover, just not site standard. Keep working at it and you will get it!  

[araden64]

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback, I made the cover more for my own personal use, I just thought I'd share, I would love to get it up to par though. 

Quite honestly I didn't even realize how bad the moire on the front and back was.  So I just cleaned up the front and back images, how are they now? 

And the sega logo I got straight from the template, I didn't edit it, so I think it might just be you. 

I've never worked with vectors, so I'm not quite sure how to convert the logo to one.  I did clean it up a bit though, no stray black dot.

Feedback is appreciated.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_template_-_araden64_2.jpg

[palmer6strings]

That does look a lot better.

What I still see though is the back image of the chopper, to me it almost looks like someone took a picture of a TV screen (the horizontal lines) it even may be like that on the original box. Not sure if you used a scan or not.

What I mean by it would look better if the title was vector, if you look closely you can see it's heavily pixilated. You "can" fix this is photoshop, but it's a lot easier to do in illustrator, which you can get cs2 free from adobe.

Hopefully Arseen will see this and give some better pointers though. 

[araden64]

That's actually how it is on the box, it looks like a picture.  I don't know why.

Here's the scan I used: http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/superthunderblade.jpg

It was really faded so I fixed the colors to look more like the actual game.

And I agree about the logo, what I did was use the magic wand to rip it out of the scan, edited the color and resized it.

[araden64]

Double post -

I went into illustrator and messed around with the logo, I think it looks a lot better now.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_template_-_araden64_3.jpg

Critique away lol.

[palmer6strings]

I'm on my phone right now, so I'll have to look when I get home from work. It looks pretty good. Still the only thing I can really see is just that one screen cap, and the title still looks heavily pixilated to me.

[araden64]

I think I'm gonna go back and retrace the title in illustrator.  Might try and remake the screenshots in an emulator

[palmer6strings]

That would make it a lot better!

[sheep2001]

i have a vector logo in the megadrive folder on my box.net

edit:  oh and check your spelling on the back cover 

[araden64]

i have a vector logo in the megadrive folder on my box.net

edit:  oh and check your spelling on the back cover 

That's awesome, thanks, saves me alot of time.

Mind pointing out what spelling is incorrect, I use word and it's giving me nothing lol

[sheep2001]

Deppending should only have 1 p

That one just jumped out at me, didn't actually read the whole text.

[araden64]

Deppending should only have 1 p

That one just jumped out at me, didn't actually read the whole text.

Oh man, I thought I fixed that one haha.  Must of forgotten to save it when I did.  Thanks for pointing it out, gonna work on it when I get home and see how it goes.

[araden64]

Ok, I fixed the screenshots, logo (thanks Sheep), and the back text.  This is my final version.

UGC:  http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_-_ugc_final1_-_araden64.jpg

Genesis:  http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Araden46/TCP/super_thunder_blade_-_genesis_final1_-_araden64.jpg

Came a long way

[sheep2001]

Looks great. Well done!