Custom Cover Art Thread

[Robert George]

Originally Posted by jonschmidt

Forgive a rookie, but I have a question as far as printing. The printing thread is usually a graveyard so I thought I'd ask here.

When I print covers, they don't look quite right. The black never seems to look dark enough. I set it at photo paper, high quality and I'm printing on HP glossy brochure paper and the printer is a Canon MP490

Printing is almost as hard as making a cover. In my experience, the typical home printer simply is not good enough for this. I spent $500 on a consumer grade HP color laser and even that does not have the quality I want.

I suggest finding the nearest FedEX Office (Kinko's) and taking the files there on a thumb drive and having them print high quality color copies. Standard Blu-ray covers will fit a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. Tell them to print "actual size", no scaling. If they quiz you about copyright, just tell them you made them yourself using freely available images.

[BLUgrass]

Originally Posted by Robert George

Printing is almost as hard as making a cover. In my experience, the typical home printer simply is not good enough for this. I spent $500 on a consumer grade HP color laser and even that does not have the quality I want.

I suggest finding the nearest FedEX Office (Kinko's) and taking the files there on a thumb drive and having them print high quality color copies. Standard Blu-ray covers will fit a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. Tell them to print "actual size", no scaling. If they quiz you about copyright, just tell them you made them yourself using freely available images.

Thanks Robert, you are coming through for me all over the place today.

Maybe I'll try Staples if I can make it out there. There are no Kinkos within 1.5 hours of here and the pinter at work is a piece of garbage.

[Doctor.Who]

Originally Posted by Scorpion Soldier

Finally got my pc back after bringing it in for repairs and started working on the Captain America slipcovers again, and finally got the main design for the 3D version ready.

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those are incredible . I wish you sold them

[Horicon]

Some really nice designs here. Thanks for sharing

[RebelPrince1986]

Originally Posted by Josh B

@RebelPrince1986: I think it was you, that Tarzan sketch cover is pretty neat.

thanks, glad you like it

[BasedSPACER]

Originally Posted by Scorpion Soldier

Finally got my pc back after bringing it in for repairs and started working on the Captain America slipcovers again, and finally got the main design for the 3D version ready.

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Stealing my thunder, man. lol. Nice covers!

[Scorpion Soldier]

Originally Posted by BasedSPACER

Stealing my thunder, man. lol. Nice covers!

Haha, thanks man!

[Hubunkey]

I tried searching around and couldn't find it, so does anyone have custom/scan for Ninja Turtles that uses the Pizza Box artwork/design? I bought the 4-pack from Wal-Mart and wanna move it into a 15mm quad case

[Robert George]

Originally Posted by Hubunkey

I tried searching around and couldn't find it, so does anyone have custom/scan for Ninja Turtles that uses the Pizza Box artwork/design? I bought the 4-pack from Wal-Mart and wanna move it into a 15mm quad case

Is this what you are looking for? This is available at EuphoricFX.org, but the dimensions would need to be altered for a 15mm case.

[Hubunkey]

Originally Posted by Robert George

Is this what you are looking for? This is available at EuphoricFX.org, but the dimensions would need to be altered for a 15mm case.

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Yeah that's what I'm looking for, would have preferred a back that doesn't list all the swag

[BasedSPACER]

Originally Posted by Scorpion Soldier

Haha, thanks man!

No prob. Still working on mine for the Phase 2 collection, definitely drawing inspiration from your covers. Hard to come up with something unique when the film doesn't have that much artwork to choose from.

[jlk155]

Here's my attempt to replicate the Fantastic Mr. Fox digipak artwork for the Criterion clear case (3240x1900 pixels). It's based on my 600 dpi scan of the FMF slipcase and back cover attachment, reworked to eliminate all references to DVD and associated specifications. The darker tones in the upper portion of the spine will probably jump out at you, but this is inherent in the Criterion cover art. The inside cover has 50 pixels added in both dimensions to allow for printer offset. (See PRINTING NOTES below.)

PM me with your e-mail address to receive both the cover and the inside art.

[Note: The previews that I uploaded are both 1280 pixels in width. Can anyone tell me how to make them display at the same size?]

FMF FINAL preview.jpg

FMF Inside Art FINAL preview.jpg

PRINTING NOTES: I neglected to mention when I posted my Foreign Correspondent cover (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...nt#post8969179) that the inside art will probably not print correctly on 8.5x11" paper (the artwork is 10.97" in width). For some time now I've been using A4 paper for covers wider than 3240 pixels. Legal paper would also work fine. I go to OfficeMax and use the self-service Xerox WorkCentre 7535 laser printer (machine type probably varies by store), which produces fabulous prints at 49 cents per page. The A4 laser paper I use is available here: http://www.graytex.com/a4-papers.htm (Item No. 295-A4). It's a bit pricey, but I consider the results to be worth the cost.

[FruityOatyBar]

Originally Posted by RebelPrince1986

Just 2 today...

#32 - The Lion King

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#33 - Pocahontas


and thanks, gap.

OMG, I'm totally in LOVE with your Pocahontas cover! Absolutely breathtaking! Same with The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The images capture the film so much better than the official bland images.

It's so cool you're doing all the Disney animated classics - and multiple times! I'm totally digging the simplified newer versions. In general I think the most successful ones don't wrap their images around the spine to the back. A row of those solid-colored spines would be stunning.

Looking forward to seeing the series competed.

[Supernaut]

Originally Posted by jlk155

Here's my attempt to replicate the Fantastic Mr. Fox digipak artwork for the Criterion clear case (3240x1900 pixels). It's based on my 600 dpi scan of the FMF slipcase and back cover attachment, reworked to eliminate all references to DVD and associated specifications. The darker tones in the upper portion of the spine will probably jump out at you, but this is inherent in the Criterion cover art. The inside cover has 50 pixels added in both dimensions to allow for printer offset. (See PRINTING NOTES below.)

PM me with your e-mail address to receive both the cover and the inside art.

[Note: The previews that I uploaded are both 1280 pixels in width. Can anyone tell me how to make them display at the same size?]

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PRINTING NOTES: I neglected to mention when I posted my Foreign Correspondent cover (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...nt#post8969179) that the inside art will probably not print correctly on 8.5x11" paper (the artwork is 10.97" in width). For some time now I've been using A4 paper for covers wider than 3240 pixels. Legal paper would also work fine. I go to OfficeMax and use the self-service Xerox WorkCentre 7535 laser printer (machine type probably varies by store), which produces fabulous prints at 49 cents per page. The A4 laser paper I use is available here: http://www.graytex.com/a4-papers.htm (Item No. 295-A4). It's a bit pricey, but I consider the results to be worth the cost.

Fantastic! You sure saved me a lot of work there!

[Supernaut]

Been working on a more uniform Universal Monsters Collection. Wasn't too impressed with the official individual releases which they are loosely based on.










Took a few liberties with the pesky barcodes, screw it.

[SpiderRock88]

Who can I go with requests? I would try this myself but the pc with a decent program to do covers caught a virus and now runs ridiculously slow amy suggestions for programs to use? Recommendations?

Anyways, I am in search of some custom cover art if someone can help me

I am in need of both the hunger games movies.

Nothing to complicated (I think) I want both the target exclusives as covers, the original digipack and Catching Fire digibook. Think of it as a scan lol same back and cover, the only modification I personally would do is add a 4th disc to the first movie, which would be the dvd copy.

If anyone can help me out with is or maybe point to some programs, preferably free, let me know.

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[grim_tales]

Originally Posted by Robert George

Is this what you are looking for? This is available at EuphoricFX.org, but the dimensions would need to be altered for a 15mm case.

Speaking of Ninja Turtles, was anyone thinking to make a cover for Vol 1-6 of the cartoon series (80's version) that I could put in a 6 disc case so it wouldnt take up as much space?
Thank you!
(Originally they were DVDs though, can you get 6 disc DVD cases?)

[Bytor2112]

finished up the start of my Mad Max collection. still might do some tweaking.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by grim_tales

Speaking of Ninja Turtles, was anyone thinking to make a cover for Vol 1-6 of the cartoon series (80's version) that I could put in a 6 disc case so it wouldnt take up as much space?
Thank you!
(Originally they were DVDs though, can you get 6 disc DVD cases?)

You can get 6 disc cases, 12 disc cases, and so forth.

Check out this thread about replacement Blu-Ray cases. There are links to many online stores that carry replacement cases, and they have both DVD and Blu-Ray cases of various types and sizes.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=80758




I've never uploaded them anywhere, but I actually made covers for a TMNT classic complete series box set.

A couple/few years ago I bought a bunch of 12 disc DVD cases because I was transferring a bunch of old family home videos to DVD-R discs and making copies for several family members as a Christmas gift. At the time the site that I bought them from was clearing them out in bulk, so thry were cheap and I had some extras.

There is 23 discs total between all of the classic TMNT DVD sets, so it worked out that I only needed two of these cases. I even swapped out one of the 2-disc "flaps" in the first case with a 1-disc "flap" from one of the individual season so that I didn't have an extra empty disc hub. The first box is Season 1-4, and the second box is Season 5-10.

I did this because the various random, inconsistent packaging of the various separate releases was driving me nuts (I REALLY hate the Season 5 pizza box packaging), plus I wanted it all to take up less room on the shelf.

Rather than trying to make the back of the boxes look "official" with bar codes, credits, etc., I just listed all of the episodes on the back.



I've been meaning to update these slightly and upload them (probably on Euphoric FX) for people to download. There are a couple of typos on the back that I didn't notice until after I printed them.

I'm also planning to make a couple of slight variations of these text-wise depending on what discs people have. There will be 3 versions of the first box and two of the second.

For the individual releases, they originally did "Volumes" 1-6.
*Volume 1 is Season 1,
*Volume 2 is Season, 2,
*Volumes 3-6 are Season 3 (plus the first episode of Season 4 for some reason).

Then they shifted to season sets starting with Season 4 (starting with that same episode that's on Volume 6).

In my original covers picture below, the text on the back reflects the Volume and Season sets since that is what I have. So it's volumes 1-6 (with the season numbers under that), and then it goes to the season sets (i.e. Season 4 disc 1, Season 4 disc 2, etc.).

More recently, they actually released a Season 3 set. It is literally the exact same discs as volumes 3-6, just with new cover art and the labeling on the discs being Season 3 disc 1, Season 3 disc 2, etc. But when you pop the discs in your player, they still reflect the volume numbers on the menu.

As silly of a reason as it is, I bought the Season 3 set just to have it more consistent. I can deal with still have "Volumes" 1 and 2 since they just directly translate to Season 1 and 2. So my plan is to make an alternate back cover for the Season 1-4 set to reflect this version.

Then I also want to make a slight variation for anyone who has the complete series set that came in that Turtle Van packaging. Similar to the how the volumes 3-6 discs were reused and relabeled for the Season 3 set, the complete box set is literally all of the exact same discs from the separate releases with new labeling. Each disc reflects it's Season number, but rather than it going from, for example, "Season 3, Disc 4" to "Season 4, Disc 1," instead the discs are collectively numbered 1 through 23. So for anyone who wants to put their discs in packaging that offers more protection than that van box, this will be a good option.


Anyway, here are pics below that I already have available online of what I made. These are actual photos of the covers printed up and inserted into the cases.










They aren't really anything "fancy," but they do the job.



It's funny because I made these before they released that aforementioned "Season 3" set. The front cover images are artwork used from a couple of the old VHS releases (though I recolored Shredder's mask over his mouth in Photoshop because it was purple).

Then when they released the Season 3 set, they actually used a modified/updated version of the same artwork that I used for my Season 1-4 case:

[grim_tales]

How big is the official Season 3 set size wise? I never knew they released that! Maybe they re-released Season 4 in better packaging too?

Great work on the boxset art of the classic series BTW!