Anybody who comes over to my house and ever views my collection, will most likely not even know what a Criterion is. They will just see my collection and notice they all look the same. This is mostly for my enjoyment only since I will look at them the most.

It's no different then if I was making a new cover for every movie, I just happen to be using the Criterion template.

I'm not the biggest Marvel-geek, so how can you tell it's the Mark VII?
All the ones I knew were, that gigantic rough one he made in that cave, later on the colorless "War Machine"-one,
then the colored one with the round power-source-thing and then on to the one that comes out of the suitcase and the one with the triangular thing.
So, what indicates this is version 7 and not like version 3 or so?

The pads next to the shoulders are part of the added back thrusters. The gauntlets are thicker as they include additional weapons/tech. The Mark VI introduced silver parts, this one has them as well but in different areas. Plus the circular design of his chest piece indicates that the design is a combination of the Mark IV with the Mark VI design along with some new features.

We have the the complete Adobe Creative Suite 4 and InDesign is the better program for making custom covers. The only reason I use Photoshop is because most of the templates etc that I use are in Photoshop.

If I coujld find those same templates in InDesign I would switch in a heartbeat because InDesign is the better software.

Yeah, I was thinking about this. You can't really do much in terms of editing images together seamlessly in InDesign right?
Like using brushes and all that kind of stuff...

Maybe it's best to first edit the artwork in Photoshop, and then assemble it in a template in InDesign, getting it ready to print.

I'm having a real hard time only positioning and sizing images with InDesign though.
They keep deforming even though I click all kinds of "lock aspect-ratio"-buttons and all that.
And I though Photoshop was hard to work with... It's Word all over again! D: :P

Would you move him slightly to the right, so you can show his blaster?
Just to test ;)

This better?
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4629/98299568.jpg
Moving the hand wasn't hard as the image i made for it extends beyond the actual front, but the problem was the leg on the right. The original image of IM is much more slanted and therefore didn't have the lower part of the leg, so i had to copy the left leg and edit it a bit.

Yes! :drool:

I LOVE :inlove:

Me too!

Much much better! :rock:

It's not odd. I love your covers thus far. And I agree about the cases - the clear look is so much better than the blue amarays. I mean, I get that they have to differentiate bd from dvd, but seriously, I think people get it by now. Stop ruining otherwise great covers with a blue case.

I'm somewhat surprised that no one has tried some mock Criterion Disney covers.

Just an Amazing Cover for this film.

It's kind of like putting a Porsche body on the shell of a Pinto. You still don't have a Porsche, no matter what it looks like.

I've been saying this ever since I first saw them, and it grew on me, but just the other day I realized once again it's pretty ugly.
Many people might be fascinated with all the "blu", but that's just obsessive, cause in a design-point-of-view it's just plain wrong.
My suggestion was always that they should have made the same case, only black.
So also the semi-transparent kind of thing, and glossy, but then just colored black.
Cause the size of the case and the Blu-ray Disc logo should be plenty to show it's Blu-ray.
The clear "color" is even better though, it also allows for the artwork on the inside to show through better.
But then, maybe it would be slightly confusing to people with PS3-games having that same case.

Speaking of these cases, are the clear ones available anywhere in Blu-ray-fashion?
Cause I'm thinking about replacing a couple of "blu" ones.

Yeah, but you have a damn nice looking car.

Also, Criterion sells their cases - you can buy a single one or a pack of 5. http://www.criterion.com/shop_produc...ay-case-5-pack

Are these exactly the size of regular inserts? Because the "bar" at the top seems to be gone.

Looks like both these sources are US-only though. I live in The Netherlands...

Yeah, the logo bar is not there. The Criterion releases do not have that bar, thankfully, in my opinion. They are the same size as a regular blu-ray otherwise.

Sinthetic from the UK bought spares the other day, not sure where he got them from but if they ship to Wales they may ship to the Netherlands

Unfortunately, looks aren't everything :D

But... I'm still not sure now. If the "bar"-area is cut off, aren't they shorter than Blu-ray-cases?
And if not, wouldn't there be space left over with the regular inserts in there?
Cause it might be the case (lol) that Criterion's inserts are taller then if they also have to cover the "bar"-area if they're as tall as regular BD-cases.

The bar is gone. The cases are the same height. The inserts are taller than regular inserts.