So, here's an interesting one. Much like the custom cover I did for Doom, this is a box that already had a border, and would be very easy for me to add color onto the sides of it and get it into a square, 1:1 format. However, if you remember, the original box has a yellow stripe in the bottom left corner advertising $10 off other Capcom games.
If you don't remember, check out one of the source images I used for this project:
http://media.psnstores.com/images/ducktales/boxart/2.jpgNow, that source image was high resolution, and was a pretty nice scan. It only required minimal cleanup, and spot removal here & there... but, seeing as how that stripe would ruin things, I decided to try and clone stamp it out. However, with an island and different waves being part of the image, I found this to be somewhat difficult. That is, until I found an image from the re-mastered version of the game, which was a re-creation of the original box art.
Now, the colors for this new image were darker and since this new version is actually a re-creation of the original box art, instead of an actual scan, things didn't line up exactly. Of course, they lined up well enough for me to paste just the bottom corner in there, line it up and erase some bits so it lined up slightly better, do some color & levels adjustments, and re-create the border in that area.
That left me with this image, which I'm sharing with you all now, in-case you'd like a nice high-quality version
of the original box art.
Below, I have just one version of the soundtrack cover. I cropped it a little tighter on the top and bottom, and added an extra amount of border on the left and right sides. I also didn't bother adding the "Original Soundtrack" text anywhere, as I'm starting to feel that approach to these custom covers are somewhat tacky. Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the final result, and find it useful for your music library.
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