As you may or may not know, I'm doing redesigns of the DVD covers in the Zzuperstore. To be frank, the ones currently in use are... not that visually pleasing, let's say.
The first cover I'm redesigning is, of course, the Zzap!64 one, simply because there's the most resources for it on the Internet and because this is a Zzap!64 site, it would be MORALLY WRONG of me to not do the Zzap!64 one first.
Note: For the purposes of this thread, the cover I'm doing will be called the 'new' one and the current one (soon to be replaced [hopefully] when I finish it) as the 'old' or 'original' one.
Warning: It is VERY compressed. Generally I prefer PNGs as they don't leave the artifices JPEG's leave, but due to the requirements of the forum, I have turned it into a JPEG and also made the image incredibly tiny.
So, here is my latest WIP, as of 7/2/2014.
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One thing I really liked about the original Zzap!64 DVD cover is that the spine looked old, parchment-like, as though it was an ancient and valuable document (which it is
) so, I've done something similar to that by using a parchment texture I downloaded a long time ago. I added a Zzap!64 logo to it, and some words. I made them semi-transparent so that the unique texture of the parchment could sort of 'leak' through. Obviously, there's still a lot for me to do - such as the full contents of it, the credits, adding Mort's to the cover, and of course adding the name of this glorious website to it. However, for about 45 minutes work, I think I've made a pretty good start.
Your thoughts?
Well still being sent as my "broad" band only uploads at 320Kb/s!
