Cover Quality

[Meers]

I recently began making covers for my gameboy cartridges and wanted to know what is the best way to obtain crisp image quality for printing?

I've printed out a few covers from this site and while they look good, I've noticed that the words are slightly blurred or pixelated.
Any tips would greatly be appreciated, thanks in advance.   

[Arseen]

It's probably due to the covers being old before the stricter quality standards.
Just open the image in any image viewing software and zoom in. If cover looks blurry it will print blurry.
No way around it.

Only way is to redo whole cover, which we try little by little but getting good enough raw material is hard or freaking expensive.

Some tips:
- Using preferably 600DPI raw material (at bare minimum 300DPI).
- If possible recapture screenshots from high quality Youtube video for example, or in case of simple images redraw them pixel by pixel. I know it's tedious but not that hard.
- If possible retype the back text with correct font. If background is solid color or easily reproduced there is no valid reason not to retype!!!

[Meers]

Ah I see. Thanks for the tips, I will go ahead and try that.

[Arseen]

Ah I see. Thanks for the tips, I will go ahead and try that.

Please if you manage to improve the covers, do share them by first uploading to Mediafire or Box, and then posting links to the boards.
Our upload function is not working currently and this is best alternate way to share the covers.
THANK YOU!!!

[Meers]

You got it!