The scan for Night is mine, but I grabbed ulookingatme's scan for Lady. Both spines were a PITA - I shrank Night and extended the golden section just below the monkey, and took the rightmost 80px of Lady, removed the title/logos, clonebrushed the background strands as best I could, then added resized titles/logos back.

The execution may still be a bit newbish, but I'm fairly pleased with the concepts here. Suggestions, as always, appreciated.

Danno

(Scans removed and uploaded to the gallery)

Danno, I am pleased to say...your skills have improved!

Yep both look very good. I will comment on Night as you have put much work into that...

First off let me say that its very high quality...well done:thumbup: The first thing I do when looking over a scan is jump to the back and make sure that the credits and text are clear and legible. The legibility of the credits and text in your night cover are great and so will look very good on print.

You have done a good job on the spine - looks flat to me. You have cleaned up any dust spots nicely, I have spotted a few minor ones, nothing major but I see too much sometimes:lol:.

Just one thing that I would recommend you trying...Try adjusting the black levels at the top/front of the cover. I'm referring to the black area where it says 'widescreen'. There are some anomaly white specs around the lettering. I would suggest carefully selecting (with the selection tool) that entire black strip and raising the black levels (with the levels tool) to make it look better/cleaner. I have done a quick edit of the cover and attached to show what I mean.

Great work on this one Danno:goodpost:

Now Danno, don't let your head get too big!!! :biglaugh: :lol:

I'll cheerfully confess - hanging out here has greatly increased the amount of time I've put into each cover. (Once upon a time, I had a goal of 10 covers per day - and met that goal. Won't upload any of those here, though.... :eek: )

Thanks for the kind words, SW - if you like, I can upload the scans for Night (after I give it one more going-over for dust and fixing that black section you mentioned).

My head too big, gravital?? Too late - I already wear an XXL hat (true!), and am remarkably immodest about many of my skills - I'm just not as impressed with my abilities with a scanner as once I was. For a guy who started by making a multi-pass bed for a Logitech Scanman (handheld), that wasn't easy to swallow - but it's nice to know I'm gettin' there.

Next to upload - an easy one, but nobody's uploaded 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' yet, and the contrast is naturally high enough to make it an easy one.

Thanks!

Danno the grinnin' grump.

Yep upload away...that quality on that one was great:)

Hhehehehehhe.................i used to produce that many custom covers in a day................now i am lucky if i do 10 a year:thumbup: ...............well done buddy;)

Oh, kylumi - for the luxury of only needing 10 covers a year..... but thanks for the comment!

Here's another I just cranked out, for a minor SF flick that has its charms, and is high on the alphabetical list of "make from VHS 'cause there's no DVD art to be had":

Thinpak, of course.

Um - Moderators - Gimme a 'go' to upload the thinpaks that meet quality standards, and I'll get the art the heck out of the forums - or, if it's easier, just move 'em over whenever you like - I'm not at all finicky about moderators removing/moving my artwork, and I know it can take up loads of disc space.

SW - did I mistake your meaning? Should I upload the thinpak for Night at the Museum, as well as the scan? I've uploaded the scan, didn't even think of uploading the thinpak. Was the thinpak for Lady up to standards, even if I used someone else's scan for it?

Anywho - here's a thinpak custom for 12:01 -

Danno
Who wants the patience/time to do 10 of these a day... hah! :eek:

Yep upload the thinpak for LIW and NATM.

Good start on the 20:01 cover. The front is however cursed with dust:lol: Did you scan that or find on the web? If you scan it you may be able to repair it yet. Also I strongly recommend typing out the synopsis at the back - it will look better.

Yep, the chaos of dust.
Hey danno!!!
I did notice some other things that you may want to correct as well.

The title 12:01- the flares on the NE and SW corners need to be touched up. It is mainly the SW corner that makes you look. It has that rough edge cut and past look to it.

The right edge on the front cover- It looks like you have a bevel of some sort going on. Not sure if that is the case or just a wear in the cover. It is really noticeable on the botom right portion.

Image opacity- the gentelman on in the lower right... the opacity on his hair gives it an odd look. Yo may just want to delet it all together.

Dust- most of the dust that I see is rather large. dust and scratch removal will not work well on this. My reco is that you clone brush the dust away.

Other than that I like te look. Something that you may wantt to try is playing with the title on the reverse. I like what you have now, don't get me wrong. I guess it's just one of those "hey what would it look like if you did this." things. Try and drop the title over the pics, semi transparent black and use the layer effect prefs to screen or multiply. It may look neat and give you some more space in the back to work with.

Yup - the cover art is, largely, hosed. It's my scan, but that's not dust - it's wear. (The VHS box has no protective cover, and this has been on and off the shelf for years.) Clone brush would work - but as I've said elsewhere, I'm largely shooting for 'good enough', not 'spent 2 days on it'. I'd probably feel differently about it if it were in high demand...

Gravital - I'm not at all surprised you noted the clumsiness around that flare. On the original, that flare overlaps the 3 actor's names, just above where I trimmed the art - you could probably do that cleaner, but I was pleased with just making the name go away. I'm getting better - but I'm not an ace quite yet. I'm still having a heck of a time getting the 'magic wand' select tool do what I want it to. Pulling the names out from the flare was easier - sharp edges, I can do.

SW - Um.... You're right, I got lazy. I retyped the 'Presented by' text in light blue (stain and serious scuffs) - but the synopsis looked good to me until I looked really closely. (sigh) Retyping that will, indeed improve it - I found some dust speckles there I'd overlooked, too.

That right edge, gravital? Maybe I should have gone to a bevel around the front - what you're seeing there is lots and lots of corner wear, and I could only trim so far, and clonebrushing the edge is wierd, with the angle variations - but yeah, I should give that a shot. I'm not sure what you mean about the opacity on Martin Landau's hair (overlaid/underlaid on Silverman's backlit shoulder), but that's something I didn't mess with at all - the original just looks like that.

The 12:01 over the pics on the back was original, too - moving that or playing with it much (or removing it) are a bit beyond my skills yet. If I can get opacity/layers to do what I want, I've got that Mummy project that's waiting for that skill... OTOH, the outline/overlay title was a slick idea - I'll be sticking that into my idea kit for other covers.

I'll upload those thinpaks that came from clean scans, and probably horrify everyone with what I come up with for the Rocky Horror/Shock Treatment gangpak - the Shock Treatment case makes the 12:01 case look pristine, and the cover appearance suggest anything but a gangpak - but it is a sequel - never mind the totally different storyline and actors. <sigh> Maybe someday I'll give up obscure movies? Naawwww......

Yup - I need more patience, and I need it right away!

Danno the overworked....:multi:

I figured that most of the probs were due to wear and tear. It's good to see that some of these ideas may carry over to other covers.

I thought it might be a vhs scan. The clone as you said may help remove the damage..;)