The high resolution album art request thread

[Ronan Postulart 0]

6 hours ago, andrewz said:

 

I noticed more backlogs than just missing letter, but if you prefer just fixing this issue, here you go.

 

Good job finding better quality versions! As you wish, I will omit Herman Brood cover.

 

If you could make some more source material for Little Richard cover, that would be great.

 

 

 

 

[Ronan Postulart 0]

Last 2 requests, other albums I wanted to add to my music collection for a long time:

1: (https://ia802609.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-2386b550-dbff-488e-a07f-bd56ea594ffc/mbid-2386b550-dbff-488e-a07f-bd56ea594ffc-11924494320.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/tkyRVI_GQ5MHjwvbCQ1bZfopZaU=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4830890-1376852063-4001.jpeg.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1VqKcO4p0L._AC_SL1500_.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Fa4AAOSwKjRfC24M/s-l1600.jpg)

2: (https://ia800107.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-e4d7af5f-32d9-4e53-bfc1-60a59d113d8e/mbid-e4d7af5f-32d9-4e53-bfc1-60a59d113d8e-18851996422.jpg

http://is5.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music123/v4/7a/9c/f5/7a9cf57d-3392-16c6-37ce-fe3a8e65fc68/source/100000x100000-999.jpg)

 

Let me know if I submitted too much requests, and if youre willing to do them, if you like some kind of payment.

So the ones I'm looking most forward to are the Herman Brood - Buhnensucht, Jerry Lee Lewis - The Golden Rock Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard - Live in Europe 1993, Jerry Lee Lewis - Odd Man In, Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Staning Live, Jerry Lee Lewis - Golden Rock & Roll albums!

 

Greetings, Ronan

[andrewz 12]

12 hours ago, Ronan Postulart said:

Last 2 requests, other albums I wanted to add to my music collection for a long time:

1: (https://ia802609.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-2386b550-dbff-488e-a07f-bd56ea594ffc/mbid-2386b550-dbff-488e-a07f-bd56ea594ffc-11924494320.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/tkyRVI_GQ5MHjwvbCQ1bZfopZaU=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4830890-1376852063-4001.jpeg.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1VqKcO4p0L._AC_SL1500_.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Fa4AAOSwKjRfC24M/s-l1600.jpg)

2: (https://ia800107.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-e4d7af5f-32d9-4e53-bfc1-60a59d113d8e/mbid-e4d7af5f-32d9-4e53-bfc1-60a59d113d8e-18851996422.jpg

http://is5.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music123/v4/7a/9c/f5/7a9cf57d-3392-16c6-37ce-fe3a8e65fc68/source/100000x100000-999.jpg)

 

Let me know if I submitted too much requests, and if youre willing to do them, if you like some kind of payment.

So the ones I'm looking most forward to are the Herman Brood - Buhnensucht, Jerry Lee Lewis - The Golden Rock Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard - Live in Europe 1993, Jerry Lee Lewis - Odd Man In, Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Staning Live, Jerry Lee Lewis - Golden Rock & Roll albums!

 

Greetings, Ronan

 

There were few misunderstandings between us. I'm not restoring covers for profit, but for love of music. Thanks for your financial offer, but I will either do the best to fix the scan/photo, or reject the request. I previously thought that you already found a perfect cover for Buhnensucht. Now I see it is not the case (you meant that you found source materials in good quality enough), so I will try to give some love to the scans/photos you already sent.

 

I always try to capture the core of each cover, since it slightly varies from release to release and label from label. Having seen this version of Odd Man In, I assumed that those labels are related solely to the release and not the original cover. When working with typography, I always try to establish some order like giving individual glyphs the same look + making spaces between words and even letters (have a look at "IREN E") and lines the same size + put glyphs in the same level (look at bottom line of "ODD M_A_N IN"), since lots of this is affected on photos and sometimes on scans. That's why I personally prefer entirely reconstructed version. In my previous post, I also linked a version that contains no edits except the missing letter. If you prefer fusion of both versions (retouched background photo and original labels with the missing letter fixed and most other imperfections intact), I recently uploaded this version here.

 

Regarding Little Richard cover, could you please use the entire frame of a photo to capture just the label positioned horizontally/vertically as much as possible? (Your camera may offer you to display a grid when making a photo. Except 90 degrees, rotating an image in computer always leads to artifacts and loss of detail.) One photo should ideally capture the top label and second photo should capture the bottom label. This will give you as much detail as possible with the same gear.

 

Right now, I'm working on Last Man Standing Live. I will have a look at the rest of covers later. Meanwhile, you can try to find better versions of covers you requested recently, since these are pretty low quality (although better than the first Little Richard).

[Ronan Postulart 0]

I will scan in the Little Richard cover again! The last version you send of the Odd Man Inn cover is exactly how I wanted the cover, excellent work, looks just like the original!

 

[andrewz 12]

13 minutes ago, Ronan Postulart said:

I will scan in the Little Richard cover again! The last version you send of the Odd Man Inn cover is exactly how I wanted the cover, excellent work, looks just like the original!

 

 

I prefer photos. Yes, scanners have no perspective distortion, but as I said, mainstream cameras deliver better overall quality than mainstream scanners (and samples you provided before clearly prove this).

 

 

[Ronan Postulart 0]

1 minute ago, andrewz said:

 

I prefer photos. Yes, scanners have no perspective distortion, but as I said, mainstream cameras deliver better overall quality than mainstream scanners (and samples you provided before clearly prove this).

 

 

Photo's it is haha

10 minutes ago, Ronan Postulart said:

Photo's it is haha

 

12 minutes ago, andrewz said:

 

I prefer photos. Yes, scanners have no perspective distortion, but as I said, mainstream cameras deliver better overall quality than mainstream scanners (and samples you provided before clearly prove this).

 

 

What kind of lighting do you prefer, inside, outside, with a lamp?

[andrewz 12]

12 minutes ago, Ronan Postulart said:

Photo's it is haha

 

What kind of lighting do you prefer, inside, outside, with a lamp?

 

Homogeneity and adequacy is the key (same amount of light in every part of the cover, but not too much). I can do any manipulation with it in a computer, but I cannot create details that does not exist (like burned out highlights) and I cannot easily redistribute the light if not homogeneous. Photos above are quite good regarding light, but you could pick more details with the same gear if you framed it properly (=pick just the labels). The best way is to put the cover on the ground in the open and avoid (own) shadows.

[Ronan Postulart 0]

4 hours ago, andrewz said:

 

Homogeneity and adequacy is the key (same amount of light in every part of the cover, but not too much). I can do any manipulation with it in a computer, but I cannot create details that does not exist (like burned out highlights) and I cannot easily redistribute the light if not homogeneous. Photos above are quite good regarding light, but you could pick more details with the same gear if you framed it properly (=pick just the labels). The best way is to put the cover on the ground in the open and avoid (own) shadows.

Will be done! By the way, do you have the last version of the Odd Man In cover

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMuOPC_st1IJuhz2rmHR9DZNOGVWWbcEB7toqG_IqsEjApWdmjFVbzhOKQy7qIhLA?key=eHJ3ZDRPdk9mU1dwdFI4aWUyaWdwaG12OG1ZMHhR

in a smaller format, my media player disorts the image because it is 3000x3000, I think between a range of 1500x1500 / 600x600 will do.

[andrewz 12]

On 7/18/2020 at 2:36 PM, Ronan Postulart said:

Will be done! By the way, do you have the last version of the Odd Man In cover

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMuOPC_st1IJuhz2rmHR9DZNOGVWWbcEB7toqG_IqsEjApWdmjFVbzhOKQy7qIhLA?key=eHJ3ZDRPdk9mU1dwdFI4aWUyaWdwaG12OG1ZMHhR

in a smaller format, my media player disorts the image because it is 3000x3000, I think between a range of 1500x1500 / 600x600 will do.

 

Last Man Standing is up. I will upload 1200x1200px versions here just for you :-)

[Ronan Postulart 0]

4 hours ago, andrewz said:

 

Last Man Standing is up. I will upload 1200x1200px versions here just for you :-)

Wonderful! You really are doing me a big favor and I really want to thank you for that!

The only comment I have is that the Last Man Standing Live cover needs a bit of cropping, so it looks like this:

https://img.discogs.com/WnR_pb0dGB1ZP_oChoRLIMZ0GjE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7864155-1455271613-9616.jpeg.jpg

 

(btw, you should upload these covers to the Album Art Exchange site, that's the site where I look for my covers. You would be doing people a big favor, I could also upload them if you don't mind)

[andrewz 12]

10 hours ago, Ronan Postulart said:

Wonderful! You really are doing me a big favor and I really want to thank you for that!

 

The only comment I have is that the Last Man Standing Live cover needs a bit of cropping, so it looks like this:

https://img.discogs.com/WnR_pb0dGB1ZP_oChoRLIMZ0GjE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7864155-1455271613-9616.jpeg.jpg

 

(btw, you should upload these covers to the Album Art Exchange site, that's the site where I look for my covers. You would be doing people a big favor, I could also upload them if you don't mind)

 

Cropped version is up. I was happy to do it for you. Cropping and downsizing is the easiest part. That's why I upload the largest and less cropped versions so that anybody gets flexibility to edit it the way he or she prefers. In case you have so specific needs, I recommend to learn how to do it yourself. It is not a rocket science. IrfanView can do it for you in a few steps and the tool is free. It will come in handy for you in the future.

 

I used to upload my edits to AAX, but it turned out that it's owner Scott Rob is toxic elitist and narcissistic usurper. He is not repelled by collecting lots of covers from his users, then blocking their access to the site via security software called BlockScript and banning them for life in case they ask why he is so unfair. This disgusting practice (which I personally experienced) is very common and well documented online (let me make clear that I'm not defending edjgraphix either). The guy says to have a deal with record labels, but is unable to acquire digital quality covers from them (that's why I doubt the deal) and claims ownership of covers he uploaded, ignoring a fact that somebody else designed (or photographed) it and holds copyright for it. Compared to his ill attitude, I don't profit from my work financially and I'm not telling anybody what he or she is entitled do to with pictures I upload. If you'd like to upload my edits to AAX, I have nothing against it. After all, people are already doing that. In a digital world, it is impossible to have any control over it. It is sad that Scott Rob is refusing to accept it. I'm not able to imagine that record companies would protest against somebody promoting their records, which is exactly what is going on here. There is nothing wrong in buying MP3s online or ripping your original CD and attaching nice cover to it in order to make the listening experience as comfortable as possible. On the other hand, it's very sad that in 2020, you have to deal with this crap on online music markets. If this was not the case, AAX would not have to exist and I could spend my time doing something else.

[Ronan Postulart 0]

11 hours ago, andrewz said:

 

Cropped version is up. I was happy to do it for you. Cropping and downsizing is the easiest part. That's why I upload the largest and less cropped versions so that anybody gets flexibility to edit it the way he or she prefers. In case you have so specific needs, I recommend to learn how to do it yourself. It is not a rocket science. IrfanView can do it for you in a few steps and the tool is free. It will come in handy for you in the future.

 

I used to upload my edits to AAX, but it turned out that it's owner Scott Rob is toxic elitist and narcissistic usurper. He is not repelled by collecting lots of covers from his users, then blocking their access to the site via security software called BlockScript and banning them for life in case they ask why he is so unfair. This disgusting practice (which I personally experienced) is very common and well documented online (let me make clear that I'm not defending edjgraphix either). The guy says to have a deal with record labels, but is unable to acquire digital quality covers from them (that's why I doubt the deal) and claims ownership of covers he uploaded, ignoring a fact that somebody else designed (or photographed) it and holds copyright for it. Compared to his ill attitude, I don't profit from my work financially and I'm not telling anybody what he or she is entitled do to with pictures I upload. If you'd like to upload my edits to AAX, I have nothing against it. After all, people are already doing that. In a digital world, it is impossible to have any control over it. It is sad that Scott Rob is refusing to accept it. I'm not able to imagine that record companies would protest against somebody promoting their records, which is exactly what is going on here. There is nothing wrong in buying MP3s online or ripping your original CD and attaching nice cover to it in order to make the listening experience as comfortable as possible. On the other hand, it's very sad that in 2020, you have to deal with this crap on online music markets. If this was not the case, AAX would not have to exist and I could spend my time doing something else.

Wow, never heard that story before, I will just keep them for myself then. Thanks again, my library is looking great so far!

I will scan the Little Richard cover again today, and I will make good photographs. By the way, a small question, home come that the Odd Man In cover in 1200x1200 pixels is over 4MB size? Just curious, because the Last Man Standing Live cover in the same resolution is only 584kB, maybe because it's an PNG? And don't the covers look better in 1500x1500 or 1000x1000 than in 1200x1200? Thanks! (the Odd Man In cover isn't downloadable anymore)

[Ronan Postulart 0]

On 7/18/2020 at 11:21 AM, andrewz said:

 

There were few misunderstandings between us. I'm not restoring covers for profit, but for love of music. Thanks for your financial offer, but I will either do the best to fix the scan/photo, or reject the request. I previously thought that you already found a perfect cover for Buhnensucht. Now I see it is not the case (you meant that you found source materials in good quality enough), so I will try to give some love to the scans/photos you already sent.

 

I always try to capture the core of each cover, since it slightly varies from release to release and label from label. Having seen this version of Odd Man In, I assumed that those labels are related solely to the release and not the original cover. When working with typography, I always try to establish some order like giving individual glyphs the same look + making spaces between words and even letters (have a look at "IREN E") and lines the same size + put glyphs in the same level (look at bottom line of "ODD M_A_N IN"), since lots of this is affected on photos and sometimes on scans. That's why I personally prefer entirely reconstructed version. In my previous post, I also linked a version that contains no edits except the missing letter. If you prefer fusion of both versions (retouched background photo and original labels with the missing letter fixed and most other imperfections intact), I recently uploaded this version here.

 

Regarding Little Richard cover, could you please use the entire frame of a photo to capture just the label positioned horizontally/vertically as much as possible? (Your camera may offer you to display a grid when making a photo. Except 90 degrees, rotating an image in computer always leads to artifacts and loss of detail.) One photo should ideally capture the top label and second photo should capture the bottom label. This will give you as much detail as possible with the same gear.

 

Right now, I'm working on Last Man Standing Live. I will have a look at the rest of covers later. Meanwhile, you can try to find better versions of covers you requested recently, since these are pretty low quality (although better than the first Little Richard).

Here the Little Richard cover! I think the scan turned out the best, better than the picture I took:

 

[andrewz 12]

14 hours ago, Ronan Postulart said:

Here the Little Richard cover! I think the scan turned out the best, better than the picture I took:

 

Herman Brood - Bühnensucht cover is up. The difference might seem subtle at first, but I improved detail by using artificial intelligence, reduced compression artifacts, undone crop and cleaned labels among others. In case you have some ideas, send me personal message. Posting directly to this thread is better for discussion of more people, not peer-to-peer conversation. Others might feel like being spammed, since they might receive notifications on new posts.

 

Odd Man In in PNG in your folder was a mistake from my side (and yes, the file format was the reason behind the excessive size). When it makes sense, I upload covers in PNG to my gallery in order to avoid compression artifacts (anticipating that people will crop it, resize and reformat the picture on their own). JPG is better format for music libraries, since it has wider support by music players.

 

Scans and photos you made are already good sources to create good Little Richard cover, but making two separate photos like below could give us even more detail. I could put these photos together in computer.

[Jurassic Shark 12,076]

3 minutes ago, andrewz said:

reduced compression artifacts, undone crop and cleaned labels among others.

 

Interesting. Which software did you use for this?

[andrewz 12]

27 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Interesting. Which software did you use for this?

 

I guess you are interested in improving detail with AI. They say the best is https://imglarger.com (but there are many similar tools). It works pretty well, if it works at all. It use to be overloaded very often. But the key is to obtain highest quality source material and use the tool at the right time of the retouching pipeline.

 

In case you are interested in bitmap/raster editor software, there are many well known options from freeware https://www.gimp.org to commercial Corel Photo-Paint, Affinity Photo or Adobe Photoshop. All of them do pretty much the same thing. it's up to your preference.

[Jurassic Shark 12,076]

55 minutes ago, andrewz said:

 

I guess you are interested in improving detail with AI. They say the best is https://imglarger.com (but there are many similar tools). It works pretty well, if it works at all. It use to be overloaded very often. But the key is to obtain highest quality source material and use the tool at the right time of the retouching pipeline.

 

In case you are interested in bitmap/raster editor software, there are many well known options from freeware https://www.gimp.org to commercial Corel Photo-Paint, Affinity Photo or Adobe Photoshop. All of them do pretty much the same thing. it's up to your preference.

 

I'm actually looking for software especially suited for fixing damaged old photos. Could you recommend something for that?

[andrewz 12]

13 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

I'm actually looking for software especially suited for fixing damaged old photos. Could you recommend something for that?

 

I'm sorry, I don't have a general knowledge in this specific area. Affinity Photo is said to provide best ratio in terms of features/price, so if you can invest some money, this could be the right choice. But you can start with GIMP. You have to get used to the UI, but it is free and pretty competent. The best from all of the named tools is probably Photoshop, but it ain't cheap (subscription only) and you will very likely not need all of it's features. Have a look at some tutorials on YouTube and choose what best fits your needs.

[1977 1,743]

@Tydirium here is the thread to request covers.

[Tydirium 1,167]

Does anyone happen to have a higher quality (like at least 600x600) cover for Horner’s “Write Your Soul”? It was available on iTunes for a time, but the only picture of that cover that I can find is this much smaller version from Southall’s review:

 

 

It was also physically released with a DVD, so if anyone has a high quality scan of the DVD cover, that would be much appreciated too!

[andrewz 12]

On 07/11/2023 at 10:17 PM, Tydirium said:

Does anyone happen to have a higher quality (like at least 600x600) cover for Horner’s “Write Your Soul”? It was available on iTunes for a time, but the only picture of that cover that I can find is this much smaller version from Southall’s review:

 

 

It was also physically released with a DVD, so if anyone has a high quality scan of the DVD cover, that would be much appreciated too!

 

Hi. You can find 800×800 px version in my gallery.

 

 

[Tydirium 1,167]

Does anybody have a good-quality image of the Reivers CD cover, specifically? (Not the LP cover; AAE has a great version of the LP one, but the CD one is so-so.)

[raferjanders 237]

No, but I did make these some time ago.

 

 

 

 

[andrewz 12]

On 01/01/2024 at 11:41 PM, Tydirium said:

Does anybody have a good-quality image of the Reivers CD cover, specifically? (Not the LP cover; AAE has a great version of the LP one, but the CD one is so-so.)

 

Do you mean this? http://johnwilliams.free.fr/img/covers/reivers80_front.jpg

 

[Tydirium 1,167]

On 8/1/2024 at 12:04 PM, andrewz said:

 

Do you mean this? http://johnwilliams.free.fr/img/covers/reivers80_front.jpg

 

 

I mean this one:

 

https://www.discogs.com/release/4508411-John-Williams-The-Reivers

 

On another note, does anyone happen to have a 600x600 or higher image of the cover for the 1990 CD release of Marvin Hamlisch’s Ice Castles?

[raferjanders 237]

Ice Castles - check the Custom Cover thread

[Trope 527]

Does anybody have Williams' Star Wars sequel FYC album covers in high quality?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

I've those

 

 

 

[andrewz 12]

On 18/01/2024 at 7:31 PM, Tydirium said:

 

I mean this one:

 

https://www.discogs.com/release/4508411-John-Williams-The-Reivers

 

On another note, does anyone happen to have a 600x600 or higher image of the cover for the 1990 CD release of Marvin Hamlisch’s Ice Castles?

 

Marvin Hamlisch's Ice Castles can be found in my gallery here.

 

 

Regarding John Williams' The Reivers, could you please send me the vinyl album art from Album Art Exchange (the original and least compressed file – I got banned) and pinpoint the differences from CD album art?