NES Cover Project - We need more

[WolfAlmighty]

Didn't have time to check cover earlier.

Oh it's so ugly, but that's not your fault.

Quality of the cover is perfect.

THANK YOU!!!

And your right that one block was off (nice catch), but now it's perfect.

Cheers!  Glad you like it. 

BTW, those wavy lines will play with your eyes if you zoom in on them.  When I was cleaning up those parts I could see the lines actually moving (waving) in my periphery.  Kind of creeped me out a bit. 

[Arseen]

And that bottle of Tequila had nothing to do with the lines moving

Anyway here is final version of Section Z with replaced screenshots:
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?qesrrnewyq7xms6

[WolfAlmighty]

And that bottle of Tequila had nothing to do with the lines moving

No.  Not at first, anyway. 

On the Section Z cover, did you ever find out why there's text on the front relating to Tengen?  It looks like it got cut off and there should be more text, or maybe none of it is supposed to be there (AFAIK Capcom was the only one responsible for Section Z).  Do you still have the raws for this somewhere?

[Arseen]

Never had raws, it was done by ctrim78, refined by you and somewhat finished by me
Raws are available at http://npes.free.fr/

I checked GameFaqs:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/578417-section-z/images/box-58886
Yeah no mention  of Tengen. I'll tinker with the cover some more on Saturday(on Friday I have double shift from 7am till 9PM, so no time to do it tomorrow)
And I quess the text is missing: ...licenced by Nintendo.

[Arseen]

Fiddled with Section Z cover some more.
Remember it's custom:
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?zbn805drbjhobto

[WolfAlmighty]

Okay, so here's my latest attempt at Dragon Warrior:



Fixing the big DRAGON WARRIOR text on the front was easy enough since that was just a recolouring with a gradient fill, but fixing up the dragon's wings and the parts between the letters...I dunno.  I ended up doing a bit of recolouring, some copy-pasting of different sections to patchwork it in, followed by some blur tool to even them out a bit.  I guess I'm always most critical of my own work but I think it looks okay if you don't look too closely at it.  I couldn't get the colours to blend quite as well as I'd like, but I've spent quite a bit of time on it and my lack of artistic ability is preventing it from looking any better than I have it right now. 

Anyway, if anyone else wants to take a shot at making it nicer looking feel free to use what I've done so far as a base.  Oh, I also replaced the seal on the back with a nicer-looking one per Arseen's suggestion.  At least now I'm comfortable enough with it to print it out, so I'll finally have a cover for all mah DW games! 

[Brandonh1091]

Looking good so far Wolf, great job!

Might I suggest fiddling with the brightness/contrast a little? Pumping up the contrast to give the cover (especially the art on the front of the case) a little more color will make a huge difference.

[WolfAlmighty]

Cheers!

I'm not quite sure how to go about doing that, but I'll see if GIMP has an option to adjust contrast.  I know Arseen requested it for the Spy Hunter cover as well so if I can figure out how to do it I'll probably go back and darken that one as well (and try to get new screenshots, too).

[Arseen]

I don't know about GIMP, but on Paint.net, the program I use, it's under adjustments.



I did darken and brighten the Spy Hunter cover only the text and screenshots are bugging me anymore, I think I posted the cover altered on this topic, or didn't I?

[jprogram]

Also WolfAlmighty, try adding a little more saturation to the front image. Just enough to show the front a little more color than gray.

[WolfAlmighty]

I did darken and brighten the Spy Hunter cover only the text and screenshots are bugging me anymore, I think I posted the cover altered on this topic, or didn't I?

You did the darkening and replaced one screenshot but I don't think you posted anything else beyond that.  I may have just missed it though.


Thanks guys, I guess I'll have to play around with darkening the front a bit more, then.

[Arseen]

I did darken and brighten the Spy Hunter cover only the text and screenshots are bugging me anymore, I think I posted the cover altered on this topic, or didn't I?

You did the darkening and replaced one screenshot but I don't think you posted anything else beyond that.  I may have just missed it though.

No thatr was the only update I've done so far, but I have now realised that I can get the missing screenshots from the Youtube.
I'll do that on Saturday when I have next day off (5 actually).

[WolfAlmighty]

Alright, so as Brandon suggested I bumped up the contrast a bit and I was shocked at how much different (and better!) it looked, especially considering how little time it took to do.  



Cheers for the tips, everyone!  I may get the hang of this cover thing yet!  

Edit: Also decided to make the colour of the text on the back and spine a deeper red - it looked a bit dull when sitting next to the newly-coloured spiffy front art, heh.

[WolfAlmighty]

Larry, were you able to get NARC scanned?  Also, Lumberjack, are you still working on Solar Jetman?  If either of you have raws for those anywhere I can do some of the menial work on them (like retyping text, redoing the barcode, etc.) and let you guys work your magic on the finishing touches.  I'd love to have covers for those two.

[larryinc64]

I did, but I  have not had a chance to upload my scans, I will try to do it later, I'm at school now.