This is my first real attempt at a cover...any suggestions? im new to cover creating so any help would be appreciated.

Also im lacking a decent image for the top left of the back cover...anyone have any ideas for that?

I must say, for your first cover, well done.... But I do notice that theres alot of noise going on around your plot summary, and also all the text and what not at the bottom... Not sure if the chips are a low res or not, but I am still really impressed for this being your first ever custom created cover...

I must say, for your first cover, well done.... But I do notice that theres alot of noise going on around your plot summary, and also all the text and what not at the bottom... Not sure if the chips are a low res or not, but I am still really impressed for this being your first ever custom created cover...



Im not quite sure what you mean by noise around the plot summary?could you put in it plain english for me.ha.

chips il change,they are low res,but all i could find,could you point me in the direction of some hires ones maybe?

Nice first cover m8.

You can find some higher res chips at this site (its free): www.sxc.hu

The last screencap is also slightly lower res that the others. You can find some nice shot here: http://www.kinopoisk.ru/level/13/film/195847/

You will also find a nice selection of images there to place next to the synopsis.

theres alot of ummm, lower rez elements around all the writing, like slt sprinkles... If you are using a CRT monitor, prop won't see it...

This is a great first cover m8 - mine was absolute pants.
The synopsis is a tad large for me (font size).
In the credits where it says "BASED UPON THE BOOK "BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE" BY BEN MEZRICH that should IMHO be split in two with a gap between HOUSE and BY with the title the same size as the author.

A little update guys....

Any more advice?

Update looks much better, good work mate :thumbup:

One little thing i noticed was the girls head on the backm the top seems a little bit cut off with the black :)

update is way better.. One thing I do see is the girl on the top left corner of the back cover, the top of her head is cut off....

Also, the screenshots extend below the bottom white line....

Those are the only 2 things I can see...

I'd suggest that you work on 3 things:
a) The cut-off head as mentioned before. If your orginal image doesn't go further, try to move the blue chips down until they cover up that missing bit of her head.
b) The unclean hard cuts in the girl and the skyline, especially around her shoulder and the top of the tall building on the left it looks rather odd. Good cuts are difficult and can take a lot of time, but you can mask little mistakes by using outer and/or inner glows and feathering edges.
c) I would remove the tagline from the spine logo. It's too small anyway. Just the movie title '21' is enough.

Nice work. The things I caught... There are some artifacts left over from the skyline cutout that could be cleaned up. See pictures below. Also the creditblock is all the same size now. I posted a credit block for this movie in the tools (http://www.dvdcoversfuzion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3876) section, however it is really layer intensive. I also posted a title treatment (http://www.dvdcoversfuzion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3877) that can be edited fairly easy as well.

But over all it looks really good and I'm being really picky :P