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| Registered: July 22, 2007 |  Posts: 21 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quick question.
I just bought the Miami Vice boxset and the profile has a 3D publicity boxshot for the front cover. The rear is a scan of the rear of the box.
Should these be used for covers, or should it be a scan of the front of the box.
for the record, I'm undecided, for the sake of consistency, I think 2D scans are best, but the 3D picture of the box in this case looks good.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Always the front. As the rules says... Quote:
Images must be of the front and back only. Do not include the spine in either the front or back image. Where the 3D art contains the spine it is not allowed per Rules. But yes... there is a lot in the database that is wrong... needing to be replaced. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: November 24, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,261 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
Always the front. As the rules says...
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Images must be of the front and back only. Do not include the spine in either the front or back image.
Where the 3D art contains the spine it is not allowed per Rules. But yes... there is a lot in the database that is wrong... needing to be replaced. Does this apply to Box Sets such as the complete A-Team or Knight Rider, where a scan of the 'front' is just not practical? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | I see no exceptions at all to that rule in the rules... so I have to say yes... it includes them. I know what some people do and have good luck with is take pictures with a digital camera. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: July 22, 2007 | | Posts: 21 |
| | Posted: | | | | So in other words, it is safe to contrinute my scans of the front and rear of the Miami Vice box..
I was wondering about Knight Rider, because you would need an A3 (or maybe A2) scanner to scan it lol.
Maybe thats a job for a camera/tripod etc |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | yeah... there is always going to be oddball cases out there. Stuff that don't fit on a normal scanner... stuff such as the Ape Head for the Planet of the Apes and so on. But as far as the rules are written you can't have anything but the Front and Back images only. And no spine on either front or back. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: April 3, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,998 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting xocbc: Quote:
I was wondering about Knight Rider, because you would need an A3 (or maybe A2) scanner to scan it lol.
Maybe thats a job for a camera/tripod etc or if you have something that is to big you could scan it twice and the use a photo editing programme to "stitch" the two half's together    |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've used a digital camera for some of the large box sets that won't fit in a scanner. They were always approved (shot straight on, not from an angle). | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | I photographed and contributed the images of the US Stargate SG-1 and the UK Xena: Warrior Princess box since where impossible to scan. Both got accepted.    It's not perfect but better than before. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
I photographed and contributed the images of the US Stargate SG-1 and the UK Xena: Warrior Princess box since where impossible to scan. Both got accepted.
I did the same with the UK release of SG-1 (same box but we have a rating sticker on it) and a few other larger sets. To date there's never been an issue of doing this. |
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