Artist's Corner > Universal Game Case Covers
32X covers
djshok:
Ok, I gotta ask, as it's really starting to bug me. What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes? Everywhere that I've posted these covers and people I've shown them to seem to agree that the 32x covers were in fact fairly light. Some games were darker to a certain degree but not nearly as dark as the colours in the the template.
Here are some pics of original boxes to compare.
Also when you print the covers they always come out a little darker than they look on screen, which makes the lighter ones look about spot on and the darker more orange version just plain weird.
Worst case scenario I can make 2 versions or each cover if you guys really like the orange ones that much. I just find it odd that everyone here seems to like the orange stripes so much more...
Arseen:
--- Quote ---What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes?
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I think it's just that the higher powers agreed on the colorscheme, and want everybody to use the agreed shades so the covers look consistent. They could have agreed on lightwer shade in the beginning, but now it's too worksome to change, as the older covers would have to also be changed to match the new shade.
AppleQueso:
I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.
SonicAdvDX:
--- Quote from: AppleQueso on March 17, 2011, 09:59:32 AM ---I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.
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This happens with the Sega CD stripes for me. :'(
djshok:
--- Quote from: Arseen on March 17, 2011, 09:37:51 AM ---
--- Quote ---What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes?
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I think it's just that the higher powers agreed on the colorscheme, and want everybody to use the agreed shades so the covers look consistent. They could have agreed on lightwer shade in the beginning, but now it's too worksome to change, as the older covers would have to also be changed to match the new shade.
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I can understand and respect that, but at the same time the templates get updated all the time as the site grows and we improve our methods. The Sega seal has been updated several times as have the 1 and 2 player symbols. Also, it wouldn't be that much work to update the 32x section, that whole system only had about 35 games released, and we don't even have covers for all of them. Also, I could volunteer for a massive 32x updating project since I just came into the possession of a large number of high quality 32x scans on which I will be working over the next few days. I literally have scans for most of the 32x library.
--- Quote from: AppleQueso on March 17, 2011, 09:59:32 AM ---I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.
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I think printers have trouble differentiating between certain similar colours. I know that some of the older Genesis covers printed as one solid colour. However I've printed a few of these 32x covers on different printers and you can definitely see the separation between the stripes. I can provide pics if needed.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything. I just think that perhaps we should consider updating the 32x template. (Also the blue MD one, but that's another conversation).