SpiffyTheDog Posted October 20, 2003 Posted October 20, 2003 alright well i'm looking for some ridiculously large scans of the front and back covers of any of the following games: -secret of monkey island (just the back - i've got the front) -monkey island 2 -cmi -emi -full throttle -the dig -while i'm at it, any of the king's quest games (by ridiculously large i mean at least 2170 pixels high. No, really.) if you have some/know where i could find any you'd just be the most awesome person ever. Thanks etc.
Drigo Zoxx Posted October 21, 2003 Posted October 21, 2003 The fair solution would be to actually buy the games whose covers you are looking for. No one on this forum would ever do such large scans like the one you're asking for, considering that these could be used for illegal reasons (like reprinting fake game retail boxes or whatever).
SpiffyTheDog Posted October 21, 2003 Author Posted October 21, 2003 i'm not asking people to scan them, i'm asking if they know where i'd be able to find scans of them. I don't have a scanner and those games in the actual boxes and not just cd cases are kind of hard to find.
elTee Posted October 21, 2003 Posted October 21, 2003 Being as that you got the only other one you have from me anyway, I'll do the rest when I go home, and send them to you when I come back to uni. (That'll be a few weeks, but before christmas)
SpiffyTheDog Posted October 22, 2003 Author Posted October 22, 2003 jesus, tones, you're just awesome. I'm totally giving you 75%-credit on these dvdcovers (yeah, it's as if all your dreams have come true.) (by the way, yes, i said dvdcovers. I'm making dvdcovers of classic games. Commence the makefunnery.)
QueZTone Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 how big are his scans? 2000+ pixels reso make good A3 or even A2 posters
HenryJonesJr. Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 yo tones could you send them my way too? thanks
CaliMonk Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Could you just stick it on some website? I'd love to get them aswell, if its great quality i'd print it so i can frame it and hang it on my wall
elTee Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 When I scanned the art originally posters were my intention as well. And the image resolution is sufficiently high enough to fit on A1, or even A0 I think. However, its a touchy subject - I myself can get them printed on A0 or A1 for a paltry £10, but there is a copyright issue. If anyone did make posters, they would have to get them printed themselves, and not make any profit from them. My conscience is clean, anyway - if LucasArts made official box-art posters I'd buy them (like the FOA one) - but they don't. I would stick them on a website, but each image is around 15Mb. This is because the plain image looks... well, not so great - not bad, but could be better. So I apply a few imaging effects and voila: Actual Size sample of original image Actual Size sample of edited final image You already told me about the DVD covers and it sounds pretty cool
JBRAA Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 Originally posted by LucasTones When I scanned the art originally posters were my intention as well. And the image resolution is sufficiently high enough to fit on A1, or even A0 I think. However, its a touchy subject - I myself can get them printed on A0 or A1 for a paltry £10, but there is a copyright issue. If anyone did make posters, they would have to get them printed themselves, and not make any profit from them. My conscience is clean, anyway - if LucasArts made official box-art posters I'd buy them (like the FOA one) - but they don't. I would stick them on a website, but each image is around 15Mb. This is because the plain image looks... well, not so great - not bad, but could be better. So I apply a few imaging effects and voila: Actual Size sample of original image Actual Size sample of edited final image You already told me about the DVD covers and it sounds pretty cool What filter did you use when you edited the image? Or what techniques? You cleared the spots right outta there without smearing it. Looks great.
elTee Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 Yeah, it does look good considering the resolution. You can still kinda see the spots on his cheek, but its way better than the original. As for filters - I used a program I have made by Micrografx. Its like Paint-Shop Pro or Photoshop but a lot less advanced and a hell of a lot cheaper. Anyway, it has a wide variety of image effects, and I fiddled around with various filters in order to remove the spots. I think I used a smoother and some artistic filters.
CaliMonk Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 I totally get the legal issue, i'd personally just use it to hang in my own house. I've been waiting years for a possibility to have such posters but LucasArts just never makes them unfortunatly. Fortunatly with Pirates of the Carribean movie there was an official poster which i bought Anyway i'd love to get these, so i can finally have a way of making myself a great poster. LucasArts is free ot make them theirselves though i'd be all for it
CaliMonk Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 Besides that i'd really love to see liek Dansky or Paco make big pictures of their art, i'd love to hang that on the wall as well (Like the header for the Scummbar Forum, that would be great!)
SpiffyTheDog Posted October 28, 2003 Author Posted October 28, 2003 i'm just making dvd covers cuz i want to have these games in a more collectible/less fragile form. That and i'm a huge dvd collector so having them as a part of my collection would make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Laserschwert Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 Well, the ideas in here are GREAT. I too would love to have some hi-res scans of several covers (Especially Monkey Island 1-3, since I only have them as the German "Monkey Island Collection", which doesn't have the original covers). Making DVD-Covers for them is a good idea, since the revised versions of some games (as available in the US and UK... not Germany ) do come in amaray-cases, which would make them nice to look at AND - as said - less fragile. Scans of those amaray-covers would be great too. And last but not least, I (as the founder of the Soundtrack CD Covers of Monkey Island site, am planning to make more soundtracks as well as covers for all of them. There are a few problems though: - I don't have all the games (or I don't have them with their original covers, since some of them came in some sort of collection) - most of my German covers look slightly different (at least the German titles), and I would prefer the original English covers - several sites on the web contain scans of covers (some on fan sites, some on site ESPECIALLY MADE for downloading covers), but they all have scans in terrible quality (or they are too low-res) That's why I need perfect scans of english covers (meaning 300dpi and not too highly compressed)... especially from these games: Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max Hit the Road Outlaws Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb Dark Forces X-Wing and (not "vs."!!!) Tie Fighter (if possible the original covers, since I already have the "CD-ROM Editions") I would be really happy if you would participate in this and help me out. Oh yeah, since I would love to make some posters, I would really like scans of Monkey Island 1-4 as well...
Jake Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 For the record, I think LucasArts did actually make an official poster of the Monkey Island 1 box art, but I don't think they made very many of them. I would like one if anyone has two
hibernatus Posted November 1, 2003 Posted November 1, 2003 I used to have one. I think i got it in a French magazine. I would also like to get those scans. I like Steve Purcell's art. Zak, MI1 & MI2 have nice boxes.
elTee Posted November 4, 2003 Posted November 4, 2003 In one of my LucasArts Adventurers there's an advert for posters of box art for Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Secret of Monkey Island. I once asked LucasArts if these posters were still available and they said no.
CaliMonk Posted November 4, 2003 Posted November 4, 2003 So LucasTones and idea when and/or if your going to share your big resolution pictures with us?
elTee Posted November 6, 2003 Posted November 6, 2003 Well, I don't have the images yet. I still need to scan all the boxes and edit the art - this I can do in an afternoon, but my scanner is in Preston and I am in Manchester. I'll be home before christmas, I'll do it then. As for sharing.. I'm undecided. Maybe you should ask Spiffy if he could give you them after I send them to him
CaliMonk Posted November 6, 2003 Posted November 6, 2003 Cool, so Spiffy would you be nice enough to send me them after you receive them? You'd make me a really nice Christmas gift with that
SpiffyTheDog Posted November 10, 2003 Author Posted November 10, 2003 my totally awesome agenda!: 1. Receive scans. 2. Make dvd covers. 3. Post dvd covers online and milk them for all they're worth. 4. Start a grand uprising of computer game dvd covers. Be in history books. Etc. 5. Sleep perhaps after i make my first million i'll consider posting them all online in their raw form. yes, this entire post was a joke after step 3. except for that last part. and that part. and that. and that. and that. and that. and that. and that.
SpiffyTheDog Posted November 10, 2003 Author Posted November 10, 2003 also back on the subject of posters and such i just found a poster of the box art of indiana jones and the fate of atlantis on ebay and bought it. Should arrive shortly. Yay.
CaliMonk Posted November 10, 2003 Posted November 10, 2003 So you wont give anyone the raw images but just make DVD Covers which we could download? That would be a shame because my whole point is having the Covers for the game series hanging on my Wall. Monkey Island to be exact...
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