Where do you get your boxart?

[DEL 707]

I'm just wondering where everybody gets their boxart from?
My main problem is that I'm in the UK so I'm after Mega Drive boxart, and most of the stuff on this website has Genesis plastered all over it. 

Case in point, I'm having a very hard time finding Mega Drive boxart for World of Illiusion, everything I find either has Gensesis tatoo'd on it, or is too small or too low quality to use in a template.

Are they any other websites our there that have raw scans?

[sheep2001]

There are a few of us from UK/Europe, so it's worth sticking a request in the request forum.

I'll try and remember to dig out my copy tomorrow and scan it.

[Mel]

The Covergalaxy site has some  PAL cover scans for the PS1/PS2/PS3 and few other systems on their form.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Just done some quick googling for you (not a MD collector myself so not familiar with where they are at) and I found this site that has a nice bunch of PAL MD scans =

http://iskor.free.fr/jaquettes.html

And a little more googling, I found you this =

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/game-box-art-covers/Sega/Megadrive-Genesis/W/World%20of%20Illusion%20starring%20Mickey%20Mouse%20and%20Donald%20Duck.jpg

That site is awesome by the way, here is the main link for MD games so you can search through their archive =

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/game-box-art-covers/index.php?folder=Sega/Megadrive-Genesis

Enjoy!

[DEL 707]

Thanks for the replies.

I'm trying to find a scan of the older style Mega Drive boxart
i.e like this http://sega-mag.com/jeux/cover/Megadrive/World-of-Illusion-starring-Mickey-Mouse-and-Donald-Duck-Megadrive-EUR.jpg but better quality.

Thanks for all the help, I'll post in the request forum.

[sheep2001]

Scanned me me yesterday.  In the process of cleaning it up.

[DEL 707]

You beauty!   

[DEL 707]

Thought I'd ask in this thread, rather then make a new 1.
I've been working on Cyborg Justice for the Mega Drive for the past few days. Using a scan of my own box.



I've tried to tweak and clean it up a little bit, still very new to all this Photoshop lark.
But my main problem is the logo.



It's a mismatch of blue and it's semi-transparent in places.
Now I would simply just erase it all by hand and fill it in, in 1 colour, but my question is, is there a quicker and easier way to resolve this problem.

Would Also like to touch up the red as well, but I don't think that looks as bad.

[Oobgarm]

Thought I'd ask in this thread, rather then make a new 1.
I've been working on Cyborg Justice for the Mega Drive for the past few days. Using a scan of my own box.



I've tried to tweak and clean it up a little bit, still very new to all this Photoshop lark.
But my main problem is the logo.



It's a mismatch of blue and it's semi-transparent in places.
Now I would simply just erase it all by hand and fill it in, in 1 colour, but my question is, is there a quicker and easier way to resolve this problem.

Would Also like to touch up the red as well, but I don't think that looks as bad.

Once I get home from work later today, I can make you a nice hi-res vector logo. All you'd have to do is resize it and drop it in place. It's pretty simple and I can have it done before tomorrow.

[DEL 707]

Wow, I know nothing about vectors, other then they sound funky  .
Appreciate any help I can get, any chance you could give me a break down of what your doing?

Also, is there anyway I can avoid this problem with future scans, can't say I have much in the way of options, I just set it for 600dpi, there wasn't an option for descreen or derasterize.

[noemann]

Wow, I know nothing about vectors, other then they sound funky  .
Appreciate any help I can get, any chance you could give me a break down of what your doing?

Also, is there anyway I can avoid this problem with future scans, can't say I have much in the way of options, I just set it for 600dpi, there wasn't an option for descreen or derasterize.

here is a new semi-transparent box:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/dwx531id382c0qu/cyorg-logo.jpg
http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ae7d/dwx531id382c0quzg.jpg

i have very little free time for awhile, so i cannot help further. need to go to bed soon...
have a great night.

[DEL 707]

Thanks for that! 

How did you do it by the way, did you create a vector in illustrator?

[Oobgarm]

It looks like the blue box was printed on top of the black background, and the screened blue color is letting the background show through, so that may not be intentional. I made up a full logo that is solid:




I've saved it as a .psd file here:

https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/528d/lr33ih8ff5069mq4g.jpg

And yes, making a vector in Illustrator is the way to go. Live Trace is quite helpful.

[noemann]

Thanks for that! 

How did you do it by the way, did you create a vector in illustrator?

I do not like Adobe or Adobe products. I do not own shares of Adobe stock, thus I am not interested in promoting Adobe in any way.
I am a rebel:  I use Ulead PhotoImpact which no longer exists. PI was sold to Corel, then axed.
However, my methods require more time and effort. You may wish to learn Photoshop and ask for help in the PS community.

You would have to ask a Photoshop lover for how to perform the following tasks in Photoshop:


http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5e21/yafrlb2fgwbdqkfzg.jpg

I use the rectangle shape creation tool to create the blue rectangle as an object (layer in Adobe PS?).
I set the transparency to 8% which looks close to the box scan.
You could create another rectangle as an outline for the white border but i use the selection tool to manually outline.

I use the fill tool with anti-aliasing set to 10 for the red Cyborg wordmark. Then, I manually replace any discolored pixels.
I have a much busier schedule this year, so i do not have time to work on covers. I will help when i can do so.
I see that Oobgarm created a logo for you, so you could use that instead.

vector is nice but it is not always precise. I often prefer to recreate the logo myself. However, i would suggest sticking with vector if you can do so. I have Magic Tracer for vector work but I never use it. I haven't mastered it yet.

Have a great day.

[noemann]

It looks like the blue box was printed on top of the black background, and the screened blue color is letting the background show through, so that may not be intentional. I made up a full logo that is solid:

I'm not sure if you fully read the text or not: using a scan of my own box.
if the image is scanned, then the transparency is intentional by the artist. I searched for box photos and i see that SEGA must've released atleast three versions of the box. I've never seen a game box printed with ink that fades revealing a background. I'm not an expert but i doubt that this is true. I suspect that the transparency is intentional.

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/8/84290/2666675-cyborg+justice+us.jpg

it appears that a second version has a solid box instead of a transparent box.
I wonder if SEGA has a way of identifying re-released material or not? Nintendo has a wonderful concept of data tracking: a re-released box contains a modified code. for example, SNS-code-USA-1. the -1 being a modified box. I am unaware of any such data on SEGA boxes. Anyone know?

I am thinking that the box used for the scan is an original release. interesting...