Alternate DVD covers?

[Gozer]

Lookin for a new cover for The Killer and found one at www.dvdcoverart.com, question is, whats the quality like on these? Before I empty an oil drum of ink printing one out!?!?!

:cool: :nuts: :D :eek: :(

[APPRIA40WR]

If you set your printer up correctly and use glossy paper the results are excellent in my experience.

[carryonline]

Definitely - I've replaced my Dr Who DVD covers with some far superior fan-produced efforts and Zinema's Bond DVD covers are a thing of beauty.

Dr Who - http://www.chameleon-circuit.org.uk/dvd.htm
Bond - http://www.thedigitalbits.com/clips/easteregg/index.html

[Gozer]

Soooooooo, I've downloaded The Killer cover, which is far better than the Fox Lorber monstrosity. What dimensions will I need to use for a amaray case? If I print on photo quality paper at the highest resolution my Epson Stylus 680 printer can manage will it look good or dump?

[Bapapapa]

http://www.bapapapa.btinternet.co.uk/dimension.gif

Don't change the image size, just the Print Size.

DPI should be set to ~300.

[Gozer]

So if the dimensions of the image are H 184.2mm and W 274.3mm I can just print out at actual size without messin around with stuff. Looking at my printer properties box I can't find any settings box to change the dpi. The only dpi options I get are
Photo 720dpi
Photo 1440dpi
Fine and normal 360dpi
Sorry for being a pedantic dickhead but I don't wanna empty my mums ink cartridge and balls it up! :D

[Bapapapa]

You set the DPI & print size in the graphics software. eg. Photoshop or PSP.

[Gozer]

The size and dpi (300 I think) are already set so I'll just print it out on photo paper at the best resolution/dpi my printer can handle and hope for the best :cool:

[Bapapapa]

Yep.

[Idle Child]

Are there any other alternative DVD cover art sites? the films in question i'm looking for (at www.dvdcoverart.com ) don't have particularly good covers at all.




EDIT: this thread is almost 2 years old! Woot!!

[Highlander]

Why don't you do a quick black & white draft copy to check the size?

[Idle Child]

Who are you talking to? :confused:

[Herbal]

There are loads of sites

www.cdcovers.cc
www.coverkingdom.com

And i use a software called (i think and post back, sure it's on the cdcovers site)

[Paul490]

I have an cool idea for the cover art.

How about a before and after shot from the scene where Ah-Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) shoots the terrifically evil and hilarious Wong Hoi (Shing Fui-On) in the arm, which then falls off? Then show Wong Hoi with his arm back on screaming at his inept gang members to kill Ah-Jong?

Just a thought.

[Highlander]

Originally posted by Idle Child
Who are you talking to? :confused:

:lol: Original poster!!
Didn't realise this was nearly 2 years old :eek:

[The Karate Kid]

daft sod:nuts:

[Gozer]

Woah! Back from the dead :|

[Mr Flibble]

but handy - I'm after some new covers myself :thumbs:

[Joe91]

Originally posted by Herbal
There are loads of sites
www.coverkingdom.com
Thanks for that - pop-up hell and a domain name for sale :mad:

[Mr Flibble]

Opera is your friend - goodbye nasty pop-ups ;)

[Idle Child]

Originally posted by Gozer
Woah! Back from the dead :|

Yes, true resurrection - thanks to Our Lord, The Search Button. :)

[James45]

I'll be printing off alternative covers for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Identity soon, two films with excellent poster art that have been treated to some of the most bland 'floating heads' cover art for release on DVD that I have ever seen.

[Mr Flibble]

So is anyone else having problems with DVDCoverArt.com?

I just can't get replacement ones for The Crow to download at all :(


--edit--

Forget that - it's working fine now :)