The Rocketeer Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook

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Originally Posted by csdot

looks great i just kinda think its goofy they didnt line the black border up with debossing

Originally Posted by yeslek

dont you mean they should have extended the black frame of the artwork to fill the embossed border?

Originally Posted by csdot

no. i meant exactly what i said. the border is not embossed, the center of the cover is debossed. embossing is a raised design, the border is flush with the normal surface of the steelbook.

Originally Posted by yeslek

um these steels are embossed, not debossed.

I've had this discussion before as I hated the border on Aladdin but loved the embossed title. It was explained that in order to get an embossed title, they have to have a bored so there is not raised part of the artwork sticking out.
Debossment doesnt give a border and is used to push selected part of artwork in towards the inside of the steel - for example Starship Troopers or The Lion King Taiwan steel

Originally Posted by dfoles

technically the whole cover then is debossed with embossing on the title..

Regardless of that, the art should've either been the full cover without the grey border, or the grey border should've been the full border to the edge of the debossing and have the artwork fill in the middle section.

Originally Posted by yeslek

not exactly - look I cant be arsed to go into it in detail, but I was basically told(explained) that you cant get a raised title without the border and debossing has no border as its simple parts of the artwork pushed back.
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yes, the artwork should have either thickened the grey frame to fill the embossed border, or not used a frame at all. Having the frame go halfway through the border looks lazy

Originally Posted by csdot

right so if the title isnt sticking out, its not embossed. thats what embossed means. they didnt push the title out, the pushed the surface around the title in. i didnt say the title was debossed. the border is 100% NOT embossed. using your own logic, if the letters were embossed they would have to be punched from the inside, which they arent. the design is punched in from the front.

Semantics.


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