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 Post subject: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:53 pm  (#1) 
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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:52 pm  (#2) 
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Love the first one...it has movement, depth, even has the feel of something evil down there.


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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:04 pm  (#3) 
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thank you 2-ton, its my favorite too
getting the text right was horrible, i tried loads of different stuff: layerfx, perspective tool, text along path, text in the middle, text at the bottom, etc.

i think the middle yellow structure looks a bit like Galactus' head from SilverSurfer ;)

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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:57 am  (#4) 
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I agree, I prefer the first one and I like the last one, good work.

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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:06 pm  (#5) 
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i made some more

here is the original:
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its a track with a kung fu theme, thats why its called the crane (style)
my result may look simple but it was quite difficult to make
the googled picture had the wrong dimensions so i had to fill the gaps somehow
for that i made a pattern of the grass, then used other tricks to mask and blur the, way to symmetrical texture, and finally blended the corners with the smudge tool

finding the right font for the 'S' didnt succeed either, so i chose a different one and applied a G'Mic filter
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im quite happy with this one
i used the xcf file from my recreated buzzsaw logo and pasted the original cover artwork on top of it
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the orange-brown text looks like gold and the outer ring a bit like tortoiseshell
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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:23 pm  (#6) 
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Esper - those have come out lookin' good, I take they a both record labels, makes me want to create a record now.

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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:56 pm  (#7) 
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yes, mostly the inner round label of an actual vinyl record
sometimes the sleeve

its really a nice structure to work with, because you have a very defined format what has to happen in your artwork and what the dimensions are

i must say, often i do not know what to make, because the possibilites are endless
but in this format everything makes sense, even the text effects have a purpose




and here is something i made by mirroring the original picture i found on some futuristic themed blog
added the middle structure
then run a few G'Mic filters on top of it
it looks like Saruman's techno citadel ;)
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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:58 pm  (#8) 
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Couldn't resist having a go at making a record, followed this PS Tutorial, the only extra thing I did was just above the intial black circle created a greyscale noise layer that I motion blurred on the radial settings and then set layer mode to Grain Extract.
Also if you do decided to follow the tut just ignore the step where it tells you to rasterize your layer, I tried it but it didn't look right with dreadlocks and a red, yellow,green and black knitted hat :mrgreen:. Apparently after some google searching this function just converts a vector to a raster graphic which is gimps native format anyways.

Here is the result and Esper I'm sorry I had to punch a hole in your design.

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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:22 am  (#9) 
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well im afraid we have to re-name it to snake style now that you decapicated the poor crane :hehe

luckily Source Direct really made another tune called Snake Style :rofl

apart from that, your result looks really good - almost like the real thing :bigthup

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 Post subject: Re: some new covers i made
PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:30 am  (#10) 
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and finished another mirror grunge thing, just now
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