SMURF! Grab your smurfstick, smurf like a siren, and Smurf the Road with Sam & Max, Freesmurf Police, as they attempt to smurf their smurfiest case. Sam (a smurfus canine) and Max (a hypersmurfetic rabbity smurf) are smurf on the trail of a runaway carnival bigsmurf across Smurferica's smurfy underbelly in this smurfy animated smurfventure!
Smurfy our smurfening, smurfy smurffoots smurf the fugitive smurf! Smurf it now!
SMURF! Grab your smurfstick, smurf like a siren, and Smurf the Road with Sam & Max, Freesmurf Police, as they attempt to smurf their smurfiest case. Sam (a smurfus canine) and Max (a hypersmurfetic rabbity smurf) are smurf on the trail of a runaway carnival bigsmurf across Smurferica's smurfy underbelly in this smurfy animated smurfventure!
Smurfy our smurfening, smurfy smurffoots smurf the fugitive smurf! Smurf it now!
LOL
Seriously though...These cover designs are great...Jake, I saw your Max Payne and Serious Sam ones ages ago...I thought they were awesome then and I still do...the Monkey Island one looks cool too...
The only thing is, now I have to debate which HTR one I like best...luckily I havent gotten around to printing it off yet...XD
Also, Laserschwert, if you were really keen on this stuff you could maybe even do requests...
I wouldn't call myself keen... and since these things really take a lot of time to create, I would never take requests, since the minimal amount of free-time I have can't be spent on things I don't have a use for. It's as easy as that
Do the colors match the S1-cover? They do on my printer, and I was really surprised by that. Obviously a simple monitor/printer-calibration by eye helped a big deal here.
I wouldn't call myself keen... and since these things really take a lot of time to create, I would never take requests, since the minimal amount of free-time I have can't be spent on things I don't have a use for. It's as easy as that
Yeah I can understand that...but hey, doesnt hurt to ask eh?
Well, I kinda mind, since cdcovers.cc is just a bad-quality scan sites for your pirated copy-needs... nothing I want to be involved in. But maybe I'm just being too idealistic here.
Yeah, but there are other sites that deal with custom covers in a much more appealing way, like RixGrafix.com.
And since cdcovers.cc is offering CD-labels as well, it's pretty obvious it's made for people who prefer not to buy DVDs or games, but get them some other way.
What software do you guys use to make the covers the right size?
Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc, but the software is irrelevant in regards to getting the right size. Just create a new image with the following settings: 3240 x 2175 pixels, 300 dpi. When you print that out at 100%, it will be exactly the size you need.
Regardless of the program? I know that the whole image fits onto a normal size of paper but do most printers print that close to the edge?
The size at which an image is to be printed is stored in the file itself (as the dpi - dots per inch - value).
And DVD-covers aren't that big... I guess there's no printer that has a problem with printing at that size, since after all there's about half an inch space towards the edges of the paper on each side.
The font for episode titles, etc in Season One was "Square Meal." The font for "Sam & Max" is based on "Motel King," but for the official Sam & Max game logo itself, Steve Purcell did some tweaks to the lettering by hand to make it a bit more stylish.
Huh, well I'm having problems printing out the covers. When I right click and print and the photo printing wizard comes up the two best options are Full Page Fax print or Full Page Photo print. One rotates and centers it while the other crops and rotates. Neither of those look right. When I go into Photoshop and try to print I get an error saying the image is two big for the paper and there will be some clipping. When I click on print preview the area it wants to print is a blown up blurry portion of the cover spine.
Drat it all! Even with UnderCoverXP stuff is getting cut off. I guess I'm going to have to go look for some bigger sized paper.
8.5x11 thou hast failed me.....time for you to die. *holds up lighter and flicks it on*
One thing I've been doing is, I brighten the image by about 20% then print it with the paper set type the borderless 8.5x11, I brighten it because most printers will think that setting is photo paper and it will use more ink making the image darker. Just set the papers borders to all 0s, and I've been getting the best results printing at 99% size instead of 100.
Kinkos will let you sign into a computer and print off a color 11"x17" page and leave without making eye contact with an employee I every morning at PAX in the Kinkos next to the convention center, printing off a zillion signs, and only bugged a guy the first day.
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How about setting up something on Flicker? Should be enough to identify yourself as the creator, but good sharing tech to distribute the work.
That way I can subscribe to your RSS feed and get notified when you do new covers.
SMURF! Grab your smurfstick, smurf like a siren, and Smurf the Road with Sam & Max, Freesmurf Police, as they attempt to smurf their smurfiest case. Sam (a smurfus canine) and Max (a hypersmurfetic rabbity smurf) are smurf on the trail of a runaway carnival bigsmurf across Smurferica's smurfy underbelly in this smurfy animated smurfventure!
Smurfy our smurfening, smurfy smurffoots smurf the fugitive smurf! Smurf it now!
LOL
Seriously though...These cover designs are great...Jake, I saw your Max Payne and Serious Sam ones ages ago...I thought they were awesome then and I still do...the Monkey Island one looks cool too...
The only thing is, now I have to debate which HTR one I like best...luckily I havent gotten around to printing it off yet...XD
Also, Laserschwert, if you were really keen on this stuff you could maybe even do requests...
>_>
Great! Nice layout of the backside and the colours look good on the print.
Do the colors match the S1-cover? They do on my printer, and I was really surprised by that. Obviously a simple monitor/printer-calibration by eye helped a big deal here.
Yeah I can understand that...but hey, doesnt hurt to ask eh?
And since cdcovers.cc is offering CD-labels as well, it's pretty obvious it's made for people who prefer not to buy DVDs or games, but get them some other way.
Looks good here, so thumb rules rule?! ;O)
Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc, but the software is irrelevant in regards to getting the right size. Just create a new image with the following settings: 3240 x 2175 pixels, 300 dpi. When you print that out at 100%, it will be exactly the size you need.
Regardless of the program? I know that the whole image fits onto a normal size of paper but do most printers print that close to the edge?
Mine doesn't, but the Cannon at my design school does. Hell, it can print magazines on industry-grade glossy paper too!:D
The size at which an image is to be printed is stored in the file itself (as the dpi - dots per inch - value).
And DVD-covers aren't that big... I guess there's no printer that has a problem with printing at that size, since after all there's about half an inch space towards the edges of the paper on each side.
I think it was an existing font that was edited to Steve's requirements.
It's called Square Meal.
Jake posted the link to the site you could buy it somewhere.
The font for episode titles, etc in Season One was "Square Meal." The font for "Sam & Max" is based on "Motel King," but for the official Sam & Max game logo itself, Steve Purcell did some tweaks to the lettering by hand to make it a bit more stylish.
So uh.....any tips?
8.5x11 thou hast failed me.....time for you to die. *holds up lighter and flicks it on*
One thing I've been doing is, I brighten the image by about 20% then print it with the paper set type the borderless 8.5x11, I brighten it because most printers will think that setting is photo paper and it will use more ink making the image darker. Just set the papers borders to all 0s, and I've been getting the best results printing at 99% size instead of 100.