DVD printing... where to get images

[fleeps]

Hey I saw awhile ago that you go to amazon.com and they got hi res images for any DVD but I notice its only the cover...

I am using printables and am wondering if anyone out there does the same thing and if they have a resource for the original images?

[louthewiz]

All I do is scan the originals and instant image....

[bartman]

check out www.dvdcoverart.com for really hi-res images (most are 2-4Mb jpeg's) or www.cdcovers.cc for medium to low quality covers (but has a bigger selection than dvdcoverart and is free to all)

[fleeps]

wow that one site is super nice hi-res but once again its only the covers which kinda defeats the purpose for me. I can make a nice image from the cover if I can't find anything else but it would be nice to find images of the actual DVD itself...

anyone else out there doing this that just doesn't scan them?

consider this a bump

[lordsmurf]

My Photoshop guide shows what I do. Find it at www.lordsmurf.com

It shows several places to find sources.

I'm graphically inclined, and feel most official DVD's lack creativity, so I'd rather make my own from scratch anyway. Most of mine are fairly complex (much more than the one I made in the guide).

All it takes is a strong art eye and ability with graphics software.

[JMO]

Go look at the site again

[Bob W]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0784011338/qid=1036580746/sr=1-5/ref=sr_...52736?v=glance
OR
http://www.dvdempire.com/index.asp?olduserid=00000100764971&nu=1&loginCheck=6711847122...764971&redir=1

What I do is search for the movie title and click on the picture to bring up a larger picture of the movie then I right click on that picture and "save as" whatever name I want to use. Now I open my saved picture with my photo editing software and crop it enough to make it fit neatly onto a DVD or CD label. I then add text (small 8 pt) with the following information, backup program used, media used, Genre, rating, year, time, aspect ratio, and finally the audio format.

[kazman]

Hi there.

Here it is:

http://www.dvdcoverart.com/dvdcoverart/

Best option is to Pay $10.00 US. You will get 100 credits, each cover is 1 credit. You do the math. The quality of the covers its just great.

PS. You can use search to find any cover you want.

If you need sample let me know and I will send you one.

Creating dvd covers is more complicated than some of us think.
If you want the quality.

[fleeps]

lol. guys those are definitely some useful sites and lord smurf... your site will be extremely useful as well... Alas I think what I am looking for simply isn't out there.

Mostly I think you guys just misunderstood me I convereted my Epson 740 to print directly onto the dvd's using the tray thing and it works rather nicely.. props to whoever it was made that guide again.

I bought me 100 white inkjet printable DVD+r's (had to be 4x DVD+r and optodisc is the only one that made them that I could find) and I bought 100 CD-r Taiyo Yuden (spelling?) white inkjetprintable cd-r's.

You see I don't really care about the cases as I am not going to put my dvd's in normal DVD cases rather storing them in a notebook situation in the traper keeper sleeve kinda thing. For space as I plan to make a LOT of them lol

What I am trying to find is the images of the actual DVD itself not the covers. The actual image printed on the DVD media itself. But I don't think its out there everyone just has pictures of the covers.

Which will be fine. I will just use a hi-res image of a cover and mess with it in paintshop pro(used to use adobe but switched) and make a nice cd image out of it that I can print directly onto my DVD's and CD's with...

If anyone has ideas where I can get the actual pictures though that would be helpful, just don't think most people are interested in these images as very few people print directly on their DVD's... though you think a lot of you do the sticker thing and would want them for that?

hmmm... goes back to google searching!

[bartman]

www.cdcovers.cc has some dvd disc scans but there isn't a huge amount of quality control so have a dvd scan for a particular movie is hit and miss, and www.dvdcoverart.com is just that....cover art.

I don't think there is a site that has a lot of DVD scans mostly because the only reliable way of printing to the disc is with the equipment you have....press on labels have a bad name and not everyone has direct-to-disc printers so there isn't much demand for disc images.

Your best bet is to download or scan in the cover art and make your own disc label (mind you, if you have a scanner why not scan in the disc yourself why you are at it).

[Ejoc]

Almost every movie I've looked up at www.cdcovers.cc has had disc scans, either you are real unlucky, or not doing something right.

[fleeps]

thx guys that was the ticket all right... but after looking at those images I understand why they aren't that popular... I think I will just create print on's direct from the coverart as it will look nicer I belive...

thanks a lot guys!