DuckTales NES Original Soundtrack Custom Album Cover Art

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.jpg

Now, 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.

Gunstar Heroes Original Soundtrack Custom Album Cover Art

Here's another one I did for Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Genesis.

I couldn't find a clean source image without text, so instead I just found the biggest, nicest quality scan I could find:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/game-box-art-covers/Sega/Megadrive-Genesis/G/Gunstar%20Heroes%20(4).jpg

I took that image cropped it down to a 1:1 square, and used the clone stamp in Photoshop to get rid of the red border on the left, and a little bit of the logo on the top. Then I cleaned up the levels, making the colors a bit more vibrant, filtered out a lot of the noise from the scan, making everything a bit smoother, but without losing too much quality. I think the final result came out pretty nice.

Anyway, after that I found a transparent version of the Gunstar Heroes logo at this website: http://archive.kontek.net/gunstarheroes.classicgaming.gamespy.com/art.html

I took that pdf, converted it into a high-resolution transparent png, brought that png into photoshop, and positioned it on top of the freshly cleaned up cover. I then added some "Original Soundtrack" text, like I have with other covers.

So, I've got three versions here:

Standard Version

Alternate Version (No "Original Soundtrack" text)

Clean Version