My Danish version - made by req on my Danish site...

Comments, please?


P.S.: Thx goes to J0nn0 & ULAM for logos! ...And a special thx to J0nn0, again, for the wall texture, which fitted the tone of this cover so nicely!

Like it, very much so. I would suggest carring over the same grunge on the label to the cover (Those whiteto p to bottom scrapes).
For the cover the brick wall looks too in focus. If we take the front image of the kid as the focal point the wall should be somewhat blured. Not as blured as his fist but a faint blur.

I am also curious as to how the drop shadow was applied. Are you useing the layer dropshadow option or creating your own? If the first... Try creating a duplicate layer, select the image , fill with black, gaussian blur it, drop opacity, place behind the image, skew and distort as needed. This will offer a much more realistic looking shadow. You should also take the light source into consideration. If I had to guess, the light is comming from the upper right and the shadow should reflect that.

That texture works very well with this. I do agree that the wall should be somewhat blurred because it just doesn't look right behind the boy. The back synopsis also appears to get lost among the background although it may just appear that way in the preview.

Oki... dropped the drop shadows ;) - did what You suggested - dublicated and so on... Also sent the cover marked "fragile" with local post - when it came back it had all these scratches... :biglaugh:

Better?

Looking good mate, the only thing in my opinion is maybe too much texture/scratches now,i would possibly reduce it ever so slightly but that's just me.
I know i know some say more some say less lol, its your cover and if your happy with it then that's the most important thing :D

Top work mate :thumbup:

ok... reduced the scratches - and added an English synopsis - just for u! :D

How about it?


*EDIT* added a blur to the wall - too much?

Now to me mate thats heaps better, top work JR :thumbup:

Looking good. Shadow works better for me. With that method you can also conform it to a surface adding more realism. I think the scratches work well but think that they may work better if the opacity was taken down some. they just seem so prominant and it is slightly difficult to see whats going on behind at a glace because they immeadiatly grab your attention.
Poss. idea for the Synopsis (blue works much better then the red version) How about using the red white and blue and incorporating it in that as well. It would be as simple as a gradient overlay option on the text layer.
All in all looks much better. Great job JR.

Looking good. Shadow works better for me. With that method you can also conform it to a surface adding more realism. I think the scratches work well but think that they may work better if the opacity was taken down some. they just seem so prominant and it is slightly difficult to see whats going on behind at a glace because they immeadiatly grab your attention.
Poss. idea for the Synopsis (blue works much better then the red version) How about using the red white and blue and incorporating it in that as well. It would be as simple as a gradient overlay option on the text layer.
All in all looks much better. Great job JR.

I'll have a look on those scratches tonite :goodpost: - but I´d already tried the gradient thing for the synopsis before Your advise - and I must say it did NOT do wonders. But we do agree on the fact that the blue is much better... ;)

Thx for all the comments, guys!

*EDIT* @20:53 Threw a preview of the cover with the blue/red/white synopsis

Nice work JR. Glad you found a use for one of my bg's.

:thumbup:

Progress on translation...

Some feed back on the synopsis.
It all looks and sounds good up until...
"...parties, girls and snappy dressing..."

I would suggest changing it to
"...parties, girls, and snappy dressing. In turn, he finds rolemodels in Woody, ..."

Then again I am not the greatest when it comes to grammar. The original way sounds a little lengthy for a sentance.

The color on the fonts and the opacity change have worked out nicely.

The synopsis I (again) owe to Imdb. But You're right - there should be a comma after "girls"... But I've juuuust uploaded this. I'll do the switch, when it's in the gallery. (Will make the change right away - then switch the cover in gallery). Thanks for all Your help, G!

excellent work on this JR:thumbup:

thx Deds! How's the rum been treatin' ya?

Nice one JollyRoger.

Thx SFLA! Much appreciated!:goodpost: