The Custom Covers Thread

[DangerMotif 904]

Any chance someone can do a cover for House Of The Dragon with this as the cover image?

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[Steffromuk 285]

6 hours ago, heidl said:

Do you mind recommending me a good upscale tool for Photoshop? Or did you mean the built-in resizer? I regularly use letsenhance.ai, but you never know beforehand what you're gonna get. A good Photoshop plugin would certainly be more helpful.

I'm only using the Photoshop upscale tool. No extra plugin.

But I found a trick online:
You know how "Camera Raw" in Photoshop allows you to open Raw files? it's a reduced version of Lightroom.

In the menu, there's a function that doubles the resolution of your picture using an interpolation system. It's called "Super Resolution" You can trick Photoshop into opening any other picture format as a raw image.

 

Sorry for getting a little technical here;
When you're in photoshop, open files, then tick the jpg picture or tiff or whatever format you want to open. Then, before clicking on "open" unfold the format list and pick "Camera Raw", then "open". Once in Camera Raw, click on the "..." on the right side of the window to open the extra menu. Then click on "Enhance..."
you need an image of pretty good quality (meaning not too compressed) for it to it to be really efficient.

I also use letsenhance.ai But only the older version in "photo 1.0" and I choose PNG as the render format because their JPG render sucks.

[Mr. Who 798]

1 hour ago, Gibster said:

Any chance someone can do a cover for House Of The Dragon with this as the cover image?

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Here you go:

 

Do you have this screenshot from the episode in higher resolution by any chance?

[DangerMotif 904]

37 minutes ago, Mr. Who said:

Here you go:

 

Do you have this screenshot from the episode in higher resolution by any chance?

thank you, I haven't been able to find a higher res

[Steffromuk 285]

two covers for UNDER FIRE

 

 

and two for CABOBLANCO

 

[Steffromuk 285]

The 90s Batman era.
with the yet to be released expanded Batman and Robin

 

[Andy 3,226]

These are next level outstanding. @Steffromuk

[Anthony 563]

The Goldsmith ones especially are outstanding!

[JTWfan77 1,562]

Has anyone done any covers for The Neverending Story and The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter?

[Steffromuk 285]

7 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

Has anyone done any covers for The Neverending Story and The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter?

 

I did The Neverending Story a while back. I started on the second movie but I have yet to finish it. I may take some time as I have some other everyday life priorities at the moment.

 

[Frank Vincent 215]

I've made these:

 

 

 

[JTWfan77 1,562]

Thanks @FrankV  and @Steffromuk for those, they look amazing! 

 

Hope you'll consider doing a cover using this art too: 

 

[JTWfan77 1,562]

I bought the three Rambo scores on Google Play Music before they shuttered the store a while back. 

 

I'm also weirdly a fan of those fat multi-CD jewel cases so I made three covers and back inlays using the Renato Casaro film art (before Quartet released their vinyl set using these same covers). Because RIII only had one disc worth of music I decided to add the Scotti Bros. release as a disc 2 considering that it has shorter edits of a couple of cues and the songs (not Goldsmith composed I know but then neither was the song on R:FB pII if I recall correctly).

 

I also changed the back layouts, particularly FB, using screencaps from the films, and redid some of the text. I chose different movie quotes that I preferred from what Intrada previously used:

 

"In town you're the law, out here it's me. Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe."

 

"To survive a war, you gotta become war."

 

"You started this damn war, now you'll have to deal with it."

 

If I get really crazy I might create myself a custom slipcase box in which to house these three titles when I get around to printing them out.

 

 

 

I also created fat case front inserts for Cutthroat Island and Cliffhanger (LLL/StudioCanal digital releases that I picked up when they were still available):

 

 

[Steffromuk 285]

cool RAMBO covers.
Talkin about that, for those who want square covers, I did these a couple years ago.

 

 

 

[Steffromuk 285]

two covers for The Dark Crystal expanded edition. One for the complete score, the other for the original soundtrack album.
I hope we don't have to wait for Sir Trevor Jones to pass before we get a proper complete edition of his masterpiece...
 

 

[Steffromuk 285]

To go along with the announcement of the Quartet Records 2LP album of Young Sherlock Holmes, here are two variations on the cover

 

 

[Steffromuk 285]

Happy belated Halloween!

Two bloody titles
 

 

[heidl 338]

The Lord of the Rings Symphony (Howard Shore)

 

Expansion of my existing LotR/Hobbit collection.

 

 

CD versions:

 

 

 

 

Vinyl version:

 

[JTWfan77 1,562]

@heidl gorgeous work

 

It's a pity Shore never assembled a symphony for The Hobbit

[Mr. Who 798]

5 hours ago, heidl said:

The Lord of the Rings Symphony (Howard Shore)

 

Expansion of my existing LotR/Hobbit collection.

 

 

CD versions:

 

 

 

 

Vinyl version:

 

Very nice work! Will you do a set for the Hobbit Symphony?

[Steffromuk 285]

a couple "true Story" covers

 

 

[Mr. Who 798]

Avatar: The Way of Water:

[heidl 338]

On 04/11/2022 at 1:34 PM, Mr. Who said:

Very nice work! Will you do a set for the Hobbit Symphony?

Well I can, but what for? There's no Hobbit Symphony out there, or is it?

[Jay 33,712]

There is no Hobbit Symphony, there's only The Hobbit: Four Movements for Symphony Orchestra

 

https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/26357-the-hobbit-four-movements-for-symphony-orchestra

[JTWfan77 1,562]

Not perfect, but I gave it my all and will have to suffice until a more talented artist blows this one out of the water:

 

[Steffromuk 285]

The X-files TV series in 4 volumes by LLL

 

[Steffromuk 285]

The Back to the Future trilogy

 

[Steffromuk 285]

Some animation covers

 

[JTWfan77 1,562]

Love that Prince of Eqypt cover @Steffromuk!

 

Have you done anything for the Disney Legacy Collection releases?

[Tallguy 2,174]

Yeah. And the Secret of NIMH is gorgeous as well!

 

 

[Steffromuk 285]

On 09/11/2022 at 11:58 AM, JTWfan77 said:

Love that Prince of Eqypt cover @Steffromuk!

 

Have you done anything for the Disney Legacy Collection releases?

Nope! I don't know if I'll ever tackle this collection to be honest. I love some of these scores but not the whole bunch and not enough to commit to a Disney series.
I'm sorry

 

 

A couple Maurice Jarre covers

 

[JTWfan77 1,562]

12 hours ago, Steffromuk said:

Nope! I don't know if I'll ever tackle this collection to be honest. I love some of these scores but not the whole bunch and not enough to commit to a Disney series.
I'm sorry

 

 

A couple Maurice Jarre covers

 

 

Very nice cover! Have you done one for the Milan release of Maurice Jarre at Abbey Road? Or the Notre Dame album from Tadlow?

 

I've been meaning to try my hand at some of the Disney Legacy titles from the Renaissance era (Mermaid, Beauty, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback and hopefully Hercules) using the teaser poster art for each film as they are gorgeous.

[SonicAdventure 10]

On 09/11/2022 at 6:10 PM, Steffromuk said:

Some animation covers

 

 

 

Oh wow, that is stunning! Why did I never think of this? Now that I see yours, it's so obvious to combine the "seal" with the diary. 

[Steffromuk 285]

Since Intrada announced the long awaited release of Conan the Destroyer, and I had the honor to have my work used for their B side cover, I guess it's a good time to post all my Conan related covers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the variations for the Tadlow Re-Recording series

 

 

 

 

 

[tintacle 314]

God of War and God of War: Ragnarök

Bear McCreary

 

    

*updated the previous cover I posted in 2019, with minor improvements

[Steffromuk 285]

Ronald Stein series

 

[Steffromuk 285]

Gremlins 1 & 2

 

 

[heidl 338]

On 12/11/2022 at 5:00 PM, Steffromuk said:

Since Intrada announced the long awaited release of Conan the Destroyer, and I had the honor to have my work used for their B side cover, I guess it's a good time to post all my Conan related covers.

 

 

Wow, congrats on the gig! Have you been contacted by Intrada out of the blue or how did this come about?

You seem like the perfect match for Intrada's classical releases anyway to me and I'm surprised you're not their regular go-to-guy yet

[Obi 396]

[Steffromuk 285]

8 hours ago, heidl said:

 

Wow, congrats on the gig! Have you been contacted by Intrada out of the blue or how did this come about?

You seem like the perfect match for Intrada's classical releases anyway to me and I'm surprised you're not their regular go-to-guy yet

It was actually an accident. They found my cover art online and didn't know I was the designer. It seemed that it was credited to Casaro (which in a way makes sense) and since all Casaro's Conan art is the property of Universal, they genuinely thought this was part of the material they could use.
After contacting them, they offered to credit me and we resolved the issue. I hope it opens the way to future collaborations 

[Jay 33,712]

If they are crediting you does that mean they hadn't even sent out for booklets to be printed yet when they announced it?

[Steffromuk 285]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

If they are crediting you does that mean they hadn't even sent out for booklets to be printed yet when they announced it?

I guess not.

[heidl 338]

On 18/11/2022 at 5:20 PM, Steffromuk said:

It was actually an accident. They found my cover art online and didn't know I was the designer. It seemed that it was credited to Casaro (which in a way makes sense) and since all Casaro's Conan art is the property of Universal, they genuinely thought this was part of the material they could use.
After contacting them, they offered to credit me and we resolved the issue. I hope it opens the way to future collaborations 

 

Good to know that labels are out there googling for source material just like we do.

[Andy 3,226]

Is there anything that can be done or has been done for Stepmom?

[Frank Vincent 215]

2 hours ago, Andy said:

Is there anything that can be done or has been done for Stepmom?

 

There's not much available as far as I know, except the art already used on the soundtrack album. But I've made this one with less text:

 

[WampaRat 1,101]

I was recently introduced to this masterpiece by Elmer Bernstein. Didn’t want to include any actual imagery from the awful film. So I opted to use one of the book covers:

[JNHFan2000 2,046]

Is there anyone who could make a alternate cover for Schifrin's The Dead Pool?

Maybe from this poster.

 

I would really appreciate it!

[Mr. Who 798]

A cover for Willow and a minimalist set for the Snyder DCU Trilogy scores:

[WampaRat 1,101]

Another rejected Bernstein score. I adapted the exquisite artwork by 

Krzysztof Domaradzki 

 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/82252421/Gangs-of-New-York

[Cameron007 34]

On 18/11/2022 at 10:20 AM, Steffromuk said:

It was actually an accident. They found my cover art online and didn't know I was the designer. It seemed that it was credited to Casaro (which in a way makes sense) and since all Casaro's Conan art is the property of Universal, they genuinely thought this was part of the material they could use.
After contacting them, they offered to credit me and we resolved the issue. I hope it opens the way to future collaborations 

 

I hope they commission you in the future. You make gorgeous covers.