Custom Cover Art Thread

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Quite successful. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out. The water on the lower right is the only giveaway with it's repeating pattern. I'd just crop some of it out to white.

I run into this all the time, having incomplete posters in High Rez. Either they're cropped real tight or there's ginormous text covering them. If I can, I erase those parts and patch up the holes with a lower rez, clean poster when available.

I just stack the big poster layer over the small poster, resizing the smallest one to match the big one. Then, when I erase the text portions on the big poster, the clean parts of the small poster show through.

The trick is to match up the posters, get them identical in size, maybe rotate, colour-match them, ajdust brightness/contrast. Then I add some fake grain (noise) to the smaller poster to match the characteristics of the big poster. It mostly turns out okay. If any of you recall my Punisher cover, everything below Dolph's knees was fixed this way. If you look closely at the motorcycle's engine block, or the rear wheel, it loses resolution halfway down.

Punisher cover:

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Just about every cover I do needs something like this, especially the ones for older movies where it's difficult finding resources. Beggars can't be choosers.

That's a neat trick. I had thought about that, but the contrast and colors were very different in the lower resolution posters and I was concerned about getting them to match just right.

Yes, the clone stamp was used on the water in the lower right, I actually didn't realize it at the time, but I probably didn't need to extend the cover further down the page but I was still thinking at the time that I was going to have a white TT.

[Turnda643]

Originally Posted by bjeong1381

Have a request if at all possible from the talented people in this thread. The Star Wars covers I have seen here are awesome but pretty much all of them are for individual movies. I would love to store these in either 2 or 3 cases max due to space. Could somebody please make the one (or both if you are feeling especially nice) of the following options. My preference would be for option 1. =)

Option 1

Cover art for Prequel Trilogy in 3 disc viva elite case
Cover art for Original Trilogy in 3 disc viva elite case
Cover art for Bonus Materials in 3 disc viva elite case

Option 2

Cover art foer all 6 movies in a 6 disc viva elite case
Cover art for Bonus Materials in 3 disc viva elite cas

If someone could please do this for that would be fantastic.

i too am looking for "Option 2" cover art. For a 6 disc Viva Elite case and a 3 disc Viva Elite case.

[DrrnHarr]

I wanted to have 007 coming out of the gunbarrel on the back cover, but thats a little beyond my skills right now.
I am open to suggestions regarding the Title Treatment color, I have tried a number of options. The official poster used a gawdy yellow so I went with a more muted yellow.
My first cinema 007 movie, "Moonraker" seems to have a split personality. After a great first half, as soon as Bond arrives in Venice it completely changes tack and goes from a suspenseful thriller to a slapstick comedy.
Still, when I was just an 8-year-old living in the U.K. it all seemed like great fun and made me a Bond fan.
The custom cover was fun to do also:

[jaws3dfan]

Here is the finished product, sorry for the low res pics. I attached the file for anyone who wants to download it...enjoy!!

[Pekosbill]

Hi Friends
Has anyone an alternative Classic cover for the John Wayne film STAGECOACH ? or a link where I can get one.
I would be very pleased if someone can help me.

THX

[Torrente]

Originally Posted by jaws3dfan

Here is the finished product, sorry for the low res pics. I attached the file for anyone who wants to download it...enjoy!!

Hi I'm very much interested in this.
Sadly the file attached is low res.
Could you post a link to the high res cover?
Thanks in advance!

[Trekkie313]

Should keep the photo look for the legs or go for a lower-res painted style, also where can I put the title without it being intrusive?


Here is how my World Is Not Enough cover is coming along!


Any comments or suggestions?

[Show spoiler]Should I use this render for Diamonds Are Forever?
I really don't like the U.S. and U.K. posters.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

Should keep the photo look for the legs or go for a lower-res painted style, also where can I put the title without it being intrusive?

Any comments or suggestions?

Should I use this render for Diamonds Are Forever?
I really don't like the U.S. and U.K. posters.

No need, there are plenty of high resolution painted FYEO posters out there on the web.

You are encountering the same issue with the TT that I encountered when I did FYEO. I would recommend taking a look at my custom cover to see how to fit more of the side graphics into the custom cover. It's going to take "breaking" the cover and moving things a little but it can be done.

I eventually decided that Melina was the main attraction of the cover and put the FYEO TT over Bond. To compensate I then made the Bond figure larger, but to make it legible you are probably going to have to cover some of the art.

Personally I am using a combination of the U.S. and U.K poster art for Diamonds Are Forever. It's quite a challenge because of their dimensions and I have gone through several versions - but it's an enjoyable challenge. Their are numerous high resolution images of those posters all over the web (many in excess of 3,000 x 5,000 pixels).

The main issue I see with your rendering is that it seems a little all over the place, with no central theme, I'd pick one theme and build the rest of the rendering around it. It's also a little dirty, I'd use an eraser tool to get rid of the flecks of dirt.

I think if you look at the "Diamonds Are Forever" posters you will see that they have a central theme -Bond with the two girls on either side. The satellite, helicopters and oil rig (for the U.S. poster - the U.K. poster has a different lower half) are all built around the one central image.

The design and evident thought that went into the poster art is one of the reasons it's one of my favorite posters (that, and the fact that my copy of Ian Fleming's novel "Diamonds Are Forever" had the U.K. poster as its cover).

I should be done with my "Diamonds Are Forever" custom cover later today - I'll post it on here.

[Torrente]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

Here is how my World Is Not Enough cover is coming along!


Any comments or suggestions?

Did you try a version without the explosions?
It is very intrusive, and distracting for the eyes and so it makes the art too much complicated to understand in a glance.

[Trekkie313]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

I agree that there's too much going on; I think I preferred the earlier version where the flag was more of an overlay than a complete mask.

I'll remove the explosion then.

About the render, I did a whole array of renders for each Bond and tried to get a unique one for each film. The one where Pierce's face is visible might be used for GoldenEye.
I was thinking of having the Union Jack getting "beat-up" throughout the Brosnan era, starting clean then ending up dirty.

For GoldenEye I was thinking of incorporating Bond and Alec on the cover, unfortunately good pictures of Sean Bean are scarce...especially high-res ones from the film.
Quiet frankly though, I think the original one-sheet for the film was and is the perfect cover for the home video versions. Perhaps replicating it would suffice, no?

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[DrrnHarr]

Here is my "Diamonds Are Forever" custom cover.

Strangely enough it all came together when I decided which version of the TT to use.

It might not be obvious at a glance but there are eight separate elements in the front cover desgn. The actual poster was just a little too thin so I had to extend it somehow:



Change to the TT color for Moonraker, courtesy of a suggestion by Imrahil:

[Trekkie313]

Not too crazy about the blue background. Everything else is good though.

[DrrnHarr]

Now I look at it I am wondering if it would be better to zero in on Bond with the two girls and ditch the oil rig and missiles at the bottom?

[Scorpion Soldier]

Was bored so started converting the 3D slip for Thor into a regular combo pack one. I own the 3D version, but i thought i'd do it anyway.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

I agree with Trekkie, lose the blue; the other covers have a white background so I feel like this clashes.

Why does your TT have quotation marks? None of your other movies do.

And I see what you're doing with the "forever" thing, but I'm not sure it works...maybe each subsequent repetition could lose 20% in opacity or something so they fade more than just in size?

I'm actually not sure why it has quotation marks but if you look at the posters they all feature it in question marks. The resource on Euphoric also has it with quotation marks.

[DrrnHarr]

No blue...

[DrrnHarr]

This is an alternate cover to try and deal with the nagging white space that is created by removing the blue. The "Forever" TT is clipped directly from the Poster so I will try and rework it.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

You could plunk it into whatthefont.com and figure out what font it is and then recreate it yourself.

Thanks for the tip. According to whatthefont.com the font is Folio Extra Bold.

Do remember that I am trying to do covers that closely mimic the original posters. Over at EuphoricFX tristancol said of the original DAF cover (with the blue): "I think the poster works well the way it is".

Maybe I should just do these WIPs over at EuphoricFX, not because Tristan liked the original WIP, but so that there are not conflicting suggestions, and if there are - then the suggestion is given taking into account the previous advice.

I'm thinking of the instance when there was a difference of opinion on the placement of the gunbarrel with RR lobbying for it to be further down the page (this was before chefjoe suggested the block of pictures running along the back) and you said you thought it was just fine where it was.

In fact it's probably only right that I limit my WIPs to Euphoric since they (including Imrahil) were so valuable in helping put the template together in the first place.

It's interesting but the reaction from the James Bond fan community has been overwhelmingly to not have the title on the covers at all - just on the spine!

[22soultaker]

What Photoshop do you guys use? I just got a new computer and im a beginner and want to start doing this. Of course ill be doing other stuff as im just starting in photography as well. Just curious i seen Photoshop cs5 for like 700$ lol that's crazy. JW what you guys use?

[gregmasciola]

Originally Posted by 22soultaker

What Photoshop do you guys use? I just got a new computer and im a beginner and want to start doing this. Of course ill be doing other stuff as im just starting in photography as well. Just curious i seen Photoshop cs5 for like 700$ lol that's crazy. JW what you guys use?

I use Photoshop Elements. You can get that for about $100 (they'll let you download a 30-day free trial). I also use Paint Shop Pro for a few things.