Is there any rule regarding scanning Steelbook covers?

I don't like scans where the rounded corners are on display - I don't think that it looks very good for example:



So when I scan in my Steelbooks, I use the clone stamp tool etc in photoshop to square off the corners and also ensure that the image is tightly cropped to the edge of the Steelbook for example:



The question is, should I be doing this for contributed images!

If the scan is good i have no problems with rounded corners.

I have no problem with fixing corners, I do it about the half the time myself (kinda a scan by scan basis of how it looks with rounded corners, if nasty, then stamp away).

For steelbooks I'd lean towards not doing it though. Those corners let someone like me (with a trained eye) know it is a steelbook in just a glance, and it's how the corners would look in a store. Covers may have different cuts, so one might see one copy rounded and one square on the rack together. You could even cut your actual covers to have square edges if they bug you that much! Steelbooks will always have rounded edges, can't cut them.

That being said I won't vote no one as long as everything else about the scan is good. I'd just prefer they weren't fixed.

"Fixing" the corners, especially when there is some kind of pattern on the case, is inventing non-existent data. That's how I feel about the question. I wouldn't do it.

Quoting TheMovieman:

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I tend to square the corners especially Blu-rays because those have auto banners and look odd with round corners...

Very true!

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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A steelbook won't have auto-banners. You need to set the case to custom instead of HD Slim.

Movieman never said Steelbook. I think he is, just as I am, talking about a plain Blu-ray cover without a slipcover.