Except when it comes to Blu-ray slip covers which is an issue when you have the slip cover check box checked (it will leave off the Blu-ray banner). The workaround was to add the banner and scan the inner cover.

BTW, what is this in reference to exactly?

LOL, I hadn't noticed that Ken confused Slip Covers and Slip Slip Cases. It is supposed to be Slip Cover, also known as O-Cover.

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Quoting cvermeylen:

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Personally, I started taking pictures with a Digital SLR Camera for reflective covers. I find the results rather satisfactory.

Here are a few examples that got accepted in the database

8717418186432 - Desperate Housewives Season 4
8717418215477 - Confessions of a Shopaholic
8712609674101 - James Bond Collection (all child profiles)

It may take a few tries to get an acceptable shot. You may need to position the camera more to the right or to the left to compensate for natural light reflecting from the cover. But I like to have the reflective cover in stead of the keepcase scan.

Here is how to take pictures with reflective surfaces:
Use a clear plastic tote or bin (approx. 9" x 13" x 8") and lined it with white paper. Place it on a counter in a well lit room and setup your camera (i.e.  Minolta 8 Megapixel with 10x Optical Zoom) and tripod about 5 or 6 feet away. Remove the DVD cover from its sleeve and wrap it around the outside of the keepcase. Apply a few pieces of rolled-up tape under the edges to secure it to the case.  Adjust the height and angle of the camera to get the best image possible (trying to avoid glare and reflection from the foil finish). Once you get the setup and adjust the  Manual Focus ring & try not to shake or jiggle the camera. After trying this process several times until you get a picture you think you could work with, and then move it to the computer for the Post process work.

Using software such as Microsoft's  Digital Image Suite 10  for any photo work that is where you took the cover image. Start by cleaning up any imperfections from the  cover and color correct the image of reflective surface art. Select  just the top and bottom foil banners and manipulated their color and intensity settings to get the look you want. The final steps  is to adjust the sharpness to make the image "pop".

All this will probably take about three hours..,  but I'm  sure you'll be  pleased with the results.   


OR  Just use the inner jacket art  and forget about the outside reflective sleeve  ..   

But most of us can do a creditable job with Slips Rl. You can have Keeps if you want, we won't stop you, you can even Contribute them, but you can expect that they will ultimately be replaced by someone who does know how to scan the Slip. The reason for it RL, is in keeping with the rest of our Rules, we deal with ORIGINAL release data and if the slip is ORIGINAL release so be it.

Heck I know a user who can produce beautiful scans of the Twentieth Century Fox 5 Star titles, they were reflective silver and he could make them look PERFECT,

Luike I said, you can Contributte them if you can't get a decent scan of a reflective cover, but recognize that somebody can and will.

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