I was thinking about modding a design to feel a little more home grown but attempt to match current cover spines in a way. My old attempt was based off of the PC DVD/CD template which I always thought was hideous and hence the final product I produced stayed to close to that for the sake of matching spines.
Examples of my previous attempt:


I don't like that one in the Sonic R version as some of it feels low res, odd textures and feels abit amateurish, that is just personal preference though.
So that being said, I would like to implore the users of this board to help design a new cover. It does not have to be one everyone uses but at least it would bring in a standard of sorts. We could work on a different Dos, Window, Mac, Linux configuration if it were desired as well think and thick spines. Everyone using it should get a say on it's production and anyone can contribute mockups and designs at any point. Not everyone is going to like everything but at least everyone gets a say.
The one standard I would put out for these templates though is the images MUST be of the highest quality. Nothing that seems scanned or of a low dpi fell. The template I originally built was built using vectors and I would like to see that again if possible.