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Eastwood
11-03-2007, 04:04 AM
The front cover is a scan which is obviously LQ, I think I may need to change the dpi on my scanner.

dragonwarrior
11-03-2007, 10:12 AM
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9627/signnothing2addqu4.gifhttp://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2796/sarcasmsignsmiliexf4.gifCame across these, thought you might like/use them:-
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/3372/godzillaum8.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9710/godzilla2yo4.jpg

Eastwood
11-03-2007, 11:43 AM
I could possibly use them for another cover. Godzilla isn't in this film, although the stills I used on the back are from Mothra Vs. Godzilla since pretty much the same actors portray the same characters in both films, well pretty much. Thanks.

SilentWarrior
11-03-2007, 12:21 PM
The front is blurry however not so much low quality. I recommend despeckling the front image (filter > noise > despeckle) and after possibly adding a slight guassian blur.You may also want to raise the black levels of the front image, I can tell they're down atm. You may want to play around with some filters just beware not to overdo it.

The title treatment on the front has a white glow from the cut out. You can remove this through matting (layer > matting) or applying and inner shadow or glow.

At the back I recommend replacing the scanned legals with custom legals found in the columbia template (in the templates forum). Currently that look like a cut out from a scan and would look much better with the sharpness of a custom.

Thats all I got for now..

Eastwood
11-03-2007, 01:27 PM
Those legals were from the Columbia Template, I stretched it a little.

gravital
11-03-2007, 11:11 PM
There are also some custom shape files available for download in the TotT section. I find those to be even crisper than the ones that the template provides.

As for applying that filter on the front image. another trick you cn pull is duplicating the layer and dumping the mentioned filters on it then drop a mask on it so that Mothra is transparent on the filtered layer. This will give it some perspective. The background will be slightly more blurry that the image of mothra behind it. It would be a more realistic pic of a huge moth flying over a city scape.

One other thing that you may want to play with is the synopsis. It looks a little too blocky for me.

dragonwarrior
11-04-2007, 12:34 AM
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9029/mothrabo7.jpg

Eastwood
11-04-2007, 12:51 AM
That's not what Mothra looks like in this one, sorry Dragonwarrior.