Hello,

I keep seeing very low res crappy dvd-r covers what ppl are throwing about,

I want to know how to make proper good ones like the one shown, click it for its reel size.

http://www.robins2001.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\blade2.jpg

I mean this is amazing quality,

Most cover sites have 1000's of covers, they therefor have a size cap on cover uploads. Your cover weighing in at 1.4mbs would be way over.

Whenever I scan a cover I scan at aleast 300dpi and save it using a lossless format such as TIF. The problem is who is going to pay for a server to host 1000's of 300dpi TIF images??

yes i understand that, thats why i want to make my own,

just to get all the high quality images?

and also the dvd logos, dd symbols, production company logos etc etc

cheers

I did my own Blade2 cover, so I know that most of the images used in that cover were/are?? available at the blade2 site.

All the logos, etc. can be found around the place, also you can always convert them to vectors if they are not high res enough.

its true look around copy&paste youd be surpprised what you can do!

if you have the time its ok if not cc covers is exellent

I use the old paint shop pro shareware version and I find that great you can cut and past different covers togther then delteinf and adding what you want but obvioulsy you need a scanner or you need to find high quality source images to start with as you can't make them better.