Font help?

[flanl3]

Hello my friends,
As you may have guessed, I live in America (Region 1), where the original DVDs look quite a lot different. As some of you may be, I’m interested in having all my new DVDs match the old ones, unfortunately, nobody’s made replacement/reversible covers for us. As such, I’d like a little help with font identification, if possible. There’s a few fonts I’m unsure on, namely, every single one except the Times New Roman (ew) of the logo/spine. Anything helps. Thanks.

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[GlenTokyo]

I never noticed that the synopsis was justified left, I just assumed it would be central. I think I was focusing on the drop cap and never looked further. I’ll see what it looks like the other way when I do X and BTE.

Someone has already started a thread on the back of this, so I’ll wait until I’ve done the others and make it a massive first post.

Does make a change from the “Would you give Craig Charles a prostate massage” type threads, yeah.

Now I know people are happy with the quality I’ll do the others and try and maintain it.

[flanl3]

I’ll be printing it off next week when I get home. It’s fantastic.

[flanl3]

Say, what did you use for that? InDesign? Photoshop? MS Paint?

[flanl3]

Say, what did you use for that? InDesign? Photoshop? MS Paint?

By the way, this isn’t intended demeaningly, some of the most beautiful photo editing jobs I’ve seen were in Paint, I’m really just curious as I’ve been struggling to design one myself.

[GlenTokyo]

I use Photoshop CS5, self taught so probably not very well haha

[flanl3]

Out of curiosity, spent any time on any others yet?

[GlenTokyo]

Yeah, started last night, just putting a couple of templates together to make my life easier. Should have something to show by the end of the week.

[flanl3]

Cool

[GlenTokyo]

Just putting this here because I know you were planning on print it out, this is the final final mega finito version. It’s as close as I’ll ever get – it’s got the right picture of Lister painting the ship, and I noticed that the US DVD’s have little Red Dwarf panels on the bottom of the back cover, and a bit of a darker fade. So I did that, and I justified the blurb properly.

Anyway, I’m going to get on with the others now – I’ll make a new post for those when I’m done.

[Ben Paddon]

I’m still holding out for Bluray-formatted R2 versions for BTE, X and XI. I’d do it myself but… eeeuuueeeehhh.

[flanl3]

Jesus. The panels are quite a nice reference to the old DVDs. Totally beautiful.

[GlenTokyo]

They’re on my docket assuming I can get the reference images. I also thought about just putting all the bluray logos on a DVD sized cover, then you can just rebox, but I’ll likely do both. It’s good practice.

[Hamish]

Am I the only one concerned that you are distributing these as JPEGs? It would be a hell of thing to put in all of this work and then have quality lost due to lossy compression.

[flanl3]

I mean, for me, I’m only going to print them with so much quality anyways, I want consistency, not my mom charging me a hefty ink bill.

[GlenTokyo]

Is there a hosting site that hosts pngs? I save them as psd files on my laptop, then upload flat pngs but I chose imgur so it changes it to jpg.

My plan was though to save them all in a zip file and host that somewhere when I’d finished.

I just posted this one for flanl to be honest.

[Phobos And Deimos]

Imgur shouldn’t convert to JPG, I’ve uploaded a lot and it’s stayed as PNG, although it might convert to JPG after it reaches a certain file size.

[GlenTokyo]

Well I definitely don’t save as jpg, I don’t think I ever have haha, even in the old days using paint I saved bmp files. Maybe there’s an option I’m not selecting or you need to log in or something.

[GlenTokyo]

I’ve found this site that hosts .png files proper. Hopefully it’s legit and not full of ads – seems ok on mine.

http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=k6hk3p073d5uqy4v0bik.png

[flanl3]

I just posted this one for flanl to be honest.

I’m flattered.

[GlenTokyo]

Direct link: http://dumpt.com/img/files/k6hk3p073d5uqy4v0bik.png

[GlenTokyo]

Oh. Apparently that site is shithouse. The resolution has shrunk it down to a postage stamp. Ignore those. I’ll experiment and come back.

[GlenTokyo]

Set up a deviantart for these, at least I know that’s somewhat reputable.

Here’s a .png

http://orig09.deviantart.net/1566/f/2016/329/d/3/rdxi_reg_1_by_glentokyo-dapjupk.png

[si]

You can add a watermark on DeviantArt if you want, too.

[Hamish]

DeviantArt should work fine for these, based on my experience.

And I am glad that you are indeed working with lossless formats, especially when doing iterative modifications. The amount of people that unwittingly suffer from generation loss is more than I can count, but I apologize for doubting you in this case.

[flanl3]

The resolution has shrunk it down to a postage stamp.

Excuse me, but I was under the impression that that was its purpose.

[GlenTokyo]

Yeah, I would do the watermark for original stuff but I’m not on these for a few reasons, people want to print them off, it’s based off someone else’s work so I’m only partially responsible, and I don’t think there’s anyway to profit off these legally even if anyone did knick them and claim them, which I don’t think they will anyway.

Just doing it for teh community innit, and for practice.

Yeah I’m a 28mb png kind of guy Hamish, always save stuff highest res and quality possible now. Most of the things I draw on Photoshop are over 4k now, as I figure by the time I need an 8k screen I’ll be old and fucked off with technology and never go further, or some kind of apocalypse will have rendered all electronics unusable.

That postage stamp size website seems to be working on an off, it might be a traffic issue. It’s only about 3MB anyway, but the resolution needs to stay the same so we don’t want any compression or filetype issues.

[GlenTokyo]

Oh yeah, I posted the thread I’m going to use. There’s a BtE R1 DVD cover on there too.

GlenTokyo's Alternative Cover Dump

[flanl3]

I was talking to someone recently and tthey were telling me they’d just put a “proper cover” on Back to Earth, and I asked what cover, and they sent me the link to this one. I don’t know that you need more proof of how good it is.

[GlenTokyo]

Nice. I’ll have to go back and finish the others in the new year, maybe redo the DVD covers for a Blu-ray version too. My computer literally died mid way through, catastrophic motherboard failure, saved the HDD though so I’ve still got all the stuff somewhere.

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