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capmonte	Homemade DVD covers	Lead	[-]
Jan 20 10 10:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm curious if anyone around here makes DVD covers for their DVDRs. There is a huge group on the Doctor Who boards I belong to who spend a lot of time making/sharing covers for Who stories not officially on DVD yet, and some that are to replace official covers. Anyone enter this particular area of fandom and, if so, want to show us what you've done? Part of me wonders if I should put this in the art folder. If it belongs there, sorry. "The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
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Rakshasa		#1	[-]
Jan 20 10 10:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great topic, Cap! I don't make my own covers, but I've seen many MST3K fan-made DVD-r covers that look just as pro as the real thing. In fact, I think there's a site where you can print them out for yourself to use. I've seen them by simply Googling images of the movie titles. Pretty neat. Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
Wich2		#2	[-]
Jan 20 10 11:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Cap, I've been rolling my own since the homemade audio & videocassette days. Xeroxes, markers, & glue back then. Easier with the Mad Machine, now; but I'm always WAY behind... -Craig
capmonte		#3	[-]
Jan 20 10 11:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is there an easy to use template out there? I'm not very artistic, but there's several (in the CD/DVD wallet I started another thread about) I wouldn't mind doing a cut and paste job for. "The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
Charles Thaxton		#4	[-]
Jan 20 10 11:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	capmonte wrote: Is there an easy to use template out there? I'm not very artistic, but there's several (in the CD/DVD wallet I started another thread about) I wouldn't mind doing a cut and paste job for. I just scan an existing store bought insert and cut out the artwork in Photoshop to make a proper size template. You have to set up the printing edges/print preview because the DVD inserts can get clipped in normal circumstances. (or print front with spine and back covers separately) but I've made quite a few. Some films I just use a regular CD size jewel case....(my DVD shelf is bulging)
tonyrivers		#5	[-]
Jan 21 10 12:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I used to make my own VHS covers from movies I recorded from cable but I've only made a few DVD-R covers so far. But I plan to make more. I usually prefer foreign poster art to US ones so usually take the foreign poster artwork and cut and paste the American titles in photoshop or take a favorite screen grab and photoshop the title on that.
Siouxsie Sue		#6	[-]
Jan 21 10 1:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I made a few DVD covers for David Bowie bootlegs that I shared around a few years ago... and I guess one or two of them might still be online somewhere. No idea. I might be tempted to take requests sometime to flex my design muscles a bit... anyone want me to try anything? I do have a template somewhere. It'd print out full size (@ 300dpi) on a normal sheet of paper. If I were designing it for print, there'd be a bleed allowance/guides and so on, but for home printing it just has the 'live' area to take a pair of scissors too. Here's one of the Bowie covers, BTW...
Ichigo Kurosaki		#7	[-]
Jan 21 10 4:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've made some of my own for stuff I got as .ISO and burned. I use a laser printer. For a standard, or slimline DVD case, regular paper works fine. The thicker cases need legal-sized paper.
gorgozilla		#8	[-]
Jan 21 10 5:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I make covers for the slimcases holding my DVD-Rs and also any DVD with unsatisfactory packaging (cardboard covers, really bad cover designs, etc. Warners and Classic Media are the ones most often guilty of this). I usually search on Google for the largest image of the movie's original poster art that I can find as the front. Then I collect photos from the film for the back. If the front and back are the same size, I combine them to make 1 full-page picture and print it out. If not, I print them separately as two 5x7 images on the same piece of paper.
Wich2		#9	[-]
Jan 21 10 11:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very slick, Sioux. Here's a very simple recent one I did, that our own Bijou Bob liked: It's not hard, cap - just time consuming. Best, -Craig
MacXoftheMounted		#10	[-]
Jan 21 10 11:58 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I do my own for DVDr's but I can't be bothered doing anything involved after doing that all day at the office. I just grab the original poster from the net and throw that on a template with the title and year on the spine. MacXoftheMounted.....................formerly known as Professor Von X
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Wich2		#11	[-]
Jan 21 10 12:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nothing wrong with simple, Mac. Here's a more intricate CAROL CD I did this Xmas, creating a faux old ad that featured my friend Arthur: -Craig Last Edited By: Wich2 Jan 21 10 12:54 PM. Edited 1 times.
Siouxsie Sue		#12	[-]
Jan 21 10 12:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hm, well, I'm also available for paid work doing cover designs, on the off-chance anyone relevant is reading this. And much as I like that one above, it is six years old and not really indicative of quality of my design work today. But it's near enough. (It was worth a try, right?)
Koukol 5		#13	[-]
Jan 21 10 8:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Siouxsie Sue wrote: Hm, well, I'm also available for paid work doing cover designs, on the off-chance anyone relevant is reading this. And much as I like that one above, it is six years old and not really indicative of quality of my design work today. But it's near enough. (It was worth a try, right?) GREAT work Sue!
Ichigo Kurosaki		#14	[-]
Jan 22 10 6:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is one I made for a set of .iso files I burned to DVD9 and put them in a case that holds six discs.
Siouxsie Sue		#15	[-]
Jan 22 10 6:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thx, K. Ostensibly I am designer & journalist anyway, it's just that no one wants me anymore.
Monstroso Sabroso	Comment	#16	[-]
Jan 22 10 7:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For the OP: I found this online and, upon checking, I find that it matches the measurements of the wrap sleeve insert I slipped out of my X Files DVD. PS - For S.S.: The Bowie cover is stunning.
Siouxsie Sue	Wolf Man Logo	#17	[-]
Jan 22 10 9:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just fiddling last hour or so, to be nominally constructive (bad depression day today, so it's therapy). Here's how to make a Wolf Man logo if you wanted a custom cover... I took a snapshot of the title screen off the DVD, a la first pic. Resize it to 300dpi and approx ten inches wide; paint bucket the background so it's (mostly) black. Started using lasso tool to trace around logo contours on a separate layer, filled those areas for each letter with plain white (pic two, TH and WOLF done!). Doesn't have to adhere to the contours 100%. It's kinda boring and I played fast and loose. The result 'basically' looks the same. Pic three, original background gone, a 'smooth' on selection and a 'stroke' (outline) of 5px added to outside of letters. A clone of that filled in solid black on another layer. Move outline layer in front of that so that it looks like the drop-shadow on the original title screen (more or less) with a bit of extra positioning. Last pic is just some mild filtering and colours applied to the outline layer selections. That's a hi-res, printable logo in original form, probably about seven inches wide (haven't checked). No use for it whatsoever unless I do a full cover design... maybe I will! I was using Photoshop. Last Edited By: Siouxsie Sue Jan 22 10 9:33 AM. Edited 1 times.
Dubious Comforts		#18	[-]
Jan 22 10 9:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	^ If you create a new file 3240 pixels wide by 2175 pixels high at 300 dpi in your favorite graphics editing program, you'll have the standard size DVD template of 10.8" x 7.25". Just set vertical guides at 1535 and 1705 pixels for the spine area. There has been a huge online community of custom DVD cover designers for many years. After several top sites were shut down by the studios due to "infringement" (read: we don't need the fans demonstrating just how much we suck at producing decent cover art), most of the talented artists have migrated to this web site. It's a pay site, but the quality is extremely high and you can preview everything, only paying for the covers you wish to download (usually $ .20 or less per cover). Here is The Shining concept cover I'd put together for a design contest on the aforementioned site linked above (it placed third). When inserted into a dvd case, it resembles the stack of typed pages that Shelly Duvall frantically leafs through in the film. Last Edited By: Dubious Comforts Jan 22 10 9:45 AM. Edited 1 times.
gorgozilla		#19	[-]
Jan 22 10 10:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Homemade covers I threw together for "upcoming releases" to my DVD-R collection: Replacement covers for poorly packaged DVD's (I hate cardboard!): I actually liked the pic on the front of the cardboard box better,but the upper left photo on the back was the biggest example of that particular picture I could find:
capmonte		#20	[-]
Jan 22 10 10:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow really impressive stuff, everyone! Gorgo, I love what you did with the Toho collection. Thanks for the template, Monstroso! "The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
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