[Game Box-art, Logos, Discs and Packs]

9 hours ago, Jonny Severn said:

So you want to a find the highest quality image and use Photoshop.

 

 

Thank you! These are very helpful!

So there's no other way to get nice and smooth outlines than mastering the path tools. And here I was trying to avoid doing just that. Guess it's time for me to suck it up and do it the right way.

Thank you again!

[Game Box-art, Logos, Discs and Packs]

Wow, these are some professional works right there! Kudos! I especially likes the clear logos, clean and smooth!

I've also been trying to make clear logos myself with GIMP lately, but the outlines always end up jagged or crooked. I've been able to cover up the flaws somewhat with a simple glow effect and scaling up then scaling down the logo liberally. But deep down I can't shake the feeling that it's a cheap trick and there ought to be better ways to do it, right?

So eh... what I'm trying to say is, are there some pointers for making better clear logos? Or recommended reads?

Thank you very much!

[Please do not destroy original, authentic box images with photoshop edits, upload them separately]

On 5/20/2021 at 1:46 PM, Freestate said:

@kurzih Maintaining non cleaned or corrected images as main ones ends having the main sources as a pile of heavily damaged and sometimes cringeworthy resources. I´m agree to not clasify as legit and main ones heavily changed reconstructions with some failures or missing parts. But for many years, as you can see in the tons of work and contributions, launchbox community is working to provide eye candy art and keeping a good balance between acuracy and quality. I made myself some really acurate reconstructions with only little and near non visible changes to the real ones, and wanting to be fair i uploaded that creations as reconstructions. The point is, i'm not gonna upload HQ cleanings with hours of work to see them overlaped by low resolution images with sunfade, missing parts, tons of dust or damaged areas to acomplish some minor preference for preservation. There's other databases around the net with that policy of NO CLEAN, NO WORK, CREEPYNESS IS THE REAL EXPERIENCE.

Moderation preferences of the community had favored clean art vs unaltered art. Reconstruction tag remains as some place for the less acurate reconstructions or cleanings (that ones with missing parts, heavy cuts, misplaced logos,etc) that could work as a workaround but aren't fair enough to confuse them with the real top notch HQ legit scans.

We are talking about ages ago media, it´s imposible to find scans of everything, and many covers need a heavy work of reconstruction using poor sources from second hand marketplaces like ebay or yahoo japan. 

If somebody prefers this 

over this

I think that person is missing the reason to manage a collection of games with a launcher. Every retrogame launcher promotes HQ and cleaned art, and compared to other communitys, launchbox bunch doesn't accept mixing creepy fudges like false european or usa covers for japaneses games in their main category. I'm satisfied with the global criteria in moderations and i'm not gonna support giving preference to damaged material. Is possible to have respect for original sources without being obsessed with impossible tasks of ortodox preservation.

They are not mutually exclusive. The "Reconstructed" tag is there for a reason. And you can set "reconstructed" version as your preferred source by changing media priorities in "Tools->Options" if you like "eyecandy" or whatever. There's no need to get rid of the authentic medias.