NES case art

[ShaggyB]

Does mine meet the quality standards?

Unfortunately no.

Altough the covers is 300 DPI, raw material you used was too low quality.

figured that would be the case.... lol gamefaqs was the only place i could fine the back cover at short of ordering a custom box.

What of the Reproduction of NWC 1990?

[Arseen]

back cover at short of ordering a custom box.

Drawing and typing -> doing the back from scratch is an option.
Apart from the screenshots the back cover is easy to do from scratch.

What of the Reproduction of NWC 1990?

How shall I put it...
Did you snort cocaine while doing the cover?
It's full of white powder like residue.

Again, I'd suggest doing the big blue areas from scratch.
Then make one good white star and copy/paste it around the front image.
Then use magic wand to solidify reproduction cartrige text and the big logo on the front.
Then retype the text.
Then use Google to fing new screenshots. the big one can be done from scratch.
Then copy and shrink the front image and use it on spine.

That should get you started.

[ShaggyB]

back cover at short of ordering a custom box.

Drawing and typing -> doing the back from scratch is an option.
Apart from the screenshots the back cover is easy to do from scratch.

What of the Reproduction of NWC 1990?

How shall I put it...
Did you snort cocaine while doing the cover?
It's full of white powder like residue.

Again, I'd suggest doing the big blue areas from scratch.
Then make one good white star and copy/paste it around the front image.
Then use magic wand to solidify reproduction cartrige text and the big logo on the front.
Then retype the text.
Then use Google to fing new screenshots. the big one can be done from scratch.
Then copy and shrink the front image and use it on spine.

That should get you started.

lol actually thats how the real box that comes with the cart is. Ive been cleaning it up but yeah its a bit of a process. You might be right. Might be worth just doing that part over from scratch.

As to magic wand, bit more info please. (very novice here... lol)

[Arseen]

You know when in paint you use the paintbucket, it only re-colors the areas that are exact match to the color you use it on.

Magic wand tool is a thing that lets you widen the tolerance from 0% (exact match to the color) to 100% (re-colors the the whole canvas, so no point using it on 100%)

Use use the Magic wand to choose area and Paint bucket top color it or you can also copy or deletethe area if you wish.

For example using the tool on the front images blue triangle, you can choose every light blue area and color them in one tone of light blue.
As  the tool only picks areas that are touching each other (like paint bucket) you would have to use it few times to pick allareas.

Not sure does Gimp have the Magic wand tool.
If not I'd suggest you download the free Paint.net with Photoshop plug-in to use Photoshop files.
It's pretty much simplified Photoshop

[ShaggyB]

You know when in paint you use the paintbucket, it only re-colors the areas that are exact match to the color you use it on.

Magic wand tool is a thing that lets you widen the tolerance from 0% (exact match to the color) to 100% (re-colors the the whole canvas, so no point using it on 100%)

Use use the Magic wand to choose area and Paint bucket top color it or you can also copy or deletethe area if you wish.

For example using the tool on the front images blue triangle, you can choose every light blue area and color them in one tone of light blue.
As  the tool only picks areas that are touching each other (like paint bucket) you would have to use it few times to pick allareas.

Not sure does Gimp have the Magic wand tool.
If not I'd suggest you download the free Paint.net with Photoshop plug-in to use Photoshop files.
It's pretty much simplified Photoshop

not sure if it does.... but thanks for the paint.net idea. I will look into it. (Thanks for the knowledge too, working my way out of the noob status. lol)

[Arseen]

Thanks for the knowledge too, working my way out of the noob status. lol

No worries, when it comes to cover making I'm pretty much n00b (maybe n00b+) level myself, hence you don't see word cover in my title.

[thesubcon3]

edit- Touched it up a bit

Also did the Reproduction Cart of Nintendo World Championships 1990




http://www.mediafire.com/i/?8osuiicc34zccj3

Awesome! Now I only need the Nintendo Campus Challenge Reproduction cart case..

[pumanchero]

I made these a while ago.

Retail spine


Custom spine

[Forte]

The Famicom thread is kind of dead...is anyone working on covers for Rockman 1-6? I saw that someone had put up a concept for them but never released the final covers. If not, consider this a request? 

[n64gamer4ever]

Here's my first NES cover. If it meets the requirements, I'll upload it to the site

Dash Galaxy:

[Arseen]

Thank you, I really needed that cover.

For some reason the cover is 96DPI and huge.
Otherwise very good.

[Arseen]

Is the size okay or do I need to save it differently?

Width and height are correct dot-wice (3366 dots wide, 2100 dots high) but as the DPI is 96, the cover will print out way too big (35" wide, 21.9" high)
Check is the saved image 300DPI and the image is still 3666 x 2100 dots.
It might be that drop box screwed the dimensions.

I can always print the image at 32% scale and all is OKish, but the image may suffer from the compression.

EDIT: I downloaded it with different computer and the image is fine.

And if you could search for better screenshots rthe cover would be perfect (few tiny specks of dirt on front but nothing major).
Maybe use these:
http://www.google.fi/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gamefabrique.com/storage/screenshots/nes/dash-galaxy-in-the-alien-asylum-05.png&imgrefurl=http://www.gamefabrique.com/games/dash-galaxy-in-the-alien-asylum/&usg=__OttCC-aaBfVZBX4rN_9gTFga7sA=&h=480&w=512&sz=20&hl=fi&start=1&zoom=1&tbnid=GmSM_HLGuHtdJM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=131&ei=sfqbT8fKOPT04QSz2u2pDg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddash%2Bgalaxy%2Balien%2Basylum%26hl%3Dfi%26sa%3DX%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disz:m%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divns&itbs=1

They are different but better quality.

[Arseen]

Just keep using dropbox.
I think the reason was that on first computer has Windows 7 and second I used had Windows XP.
I think I also downloaded diffrently.
First time I used "save link as" option, second time clicked the link waited for the image to open completely then used "save image" option.

And yes the image is 3666x2100.
But first try the image was 96DPI resulting huge image.
Second time the image was still 3666x2100, but this time it was the correct 300DPI.

[madrocsz]

Awesome battle kid cover, finally got me a copy a few weeks back and been meaning to make a case for it.

[jprogram]

I remembered seeing it but did someone made a cover for Pipe Dream yet?
If not, I can help out since I got the actual box.