https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 17:35:59 +0000 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:56:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9062 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51448&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51448 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9062
Posted: 06 March 2019 at 9:56pm

ptgraphics wrote: Ringmaster_D wrote: Hey PT. Do you post your results on any of the sites mentioned above? Hi. I did post some CD covers at Album Art Exchange - a fantastic site - a long time ago. Those are at only 600 or 800 pxl so I should update those. You have to be logged in as a member to get non watermarked images. Search drop down should say "uploaded by" and put "ptgraphics" in the search field. I uploaded a few CD singles; Bob Seger "Turn The Page" is one. I tried to put stuff on the site they didn't have before or I had a much, much better version. Everything I do I own. I don't take stuff from the web. I keep saying I am going to do a website with all I have done but still haven't done it. I even have a domain parked and ready to build on. So, I still want to do it but I am not a website guy so I keep putting it off. I think my stuff, for the most part, looks pretty good. The early ones from 2010 are not my best work but they are far from bad. One thing I do is not make it look like a photo. It's a printed piece I scanned so I try to make it look like what you would hold in your hand. So if I can help it I try to keep the paper texture etc. but I do fix some wonky printing issues if I can, like color casts, etc. I scanned a Michael Bolton CD Single a few months ago and the dudes skin was almost orange! I looked online and what I found was orange also, so it must have been a bad print run. I fixed it somewhat on my finished version.

I think you would enjoy the cover art project I am working on. Would love to talk to you about it when you have a chance. PM me.]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:56:27 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51448&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51448 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51446&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51446 Author: ptgraphics
Subject: 9062
Posted: 06 March 2019 at 7:04pm

Ringmaster_D wrote: Hey PT. Do you post your results on any of the sites mentioned above?

Hi. I did post some CD covers at Album Art Exchange - a fantastic site - a
long time ago. Those are at only 600 or 800 pxl so I should update those.
You have to be logged in as a member to get non watermarked images.
Search drop down should say "uploaded by" and put "ptgraphics" in the
search field. I uploaded a few CD singles; Bob Seger "Turn The Page" is
one. I tried to put stuff on the site they didn't have before or I had a much,
much better version. Everything I do I own. I don't take stuff from the web.
I keep saying I am going to do a website with all I have done but still haven't
done it. I even have a domain parked and ready to build on. So, I still want to
do it but I am not a website guy so I keep putting it off.
I think my stuff, for the most part, looks pretty good. The early ones from
2010 are not my best work but they are far from bad. One thing I do is not
make it look like a photo. It's a printed piece I scanned so I try to make it
look like what you would hold in your hand. So if I can help it I try to keep
the paper texture etc. but I do fix some wonky printing issues if I can, like
color casts, etc. I scanned a Michael Bolton CD Single a few months ago
and the dudes skin was almost orange! I looked online and what I found was
orange also, so it must have been a bad print run. I fixed it somewhat on my
finished version.
]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:04:17 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51446&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51446 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51444&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51444 Author: Ringmaster_D
Subject: 9062
Posted: 06 March 2019 at 3:28pm

Hey PT. Do you post your results on any of the sites
mentioned above?]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:28:19 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51444&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51444 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51441&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51441 Author: ptgraphics
Subject: 9062
Posted: 05 March 2019 at 9:43pm

prisdeej wrote: ptgraphics wrote: I have been scanning and cleaning up the fronts of 45 or 12” picture sleeves and cd single front covers for about 7 years. I take months or a year off from time to time but I do have about 1200 picture sleeves, just the fronts, cleaned up. Maybe a hundred or so CD single covers also. 45cat and other sites are good for the backs or the image of the media but it’s hard to find clean versions of the front artwork. So I started doing just that. I have many many more to scan and fix. For the 90s and beyond I don’t have too much 45s but that’s mostly because I can’t afford to buy the picture sleeve or I can’t find them in good enough condition to try to make them look good. CD single artwork is what I have been doing lately. I have a few boxes of those to scan. I don’t have to like the music to clean the art up but it helps me to get motivated. If it’s a cool or different front piece of artwork then the normal LP or cd and if I can afford it I will try to scan and clean it up for my never ending project. Welcome to the forum ptgraphics!

Thanks. I have been around for a while but I usually don't chime in but I am
a picture sleeve and CD single freak! ]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2019 21:43:56 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51441&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51441 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51433&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51433 Author: prisdeej
Subject: 9062
Posted: 05 March 2019 at 1:55pm

ptgraphics wrote: I have been scanning and cleaning up the fronts of 45 or 12” picture sleeves and cd single front covers for about 7 years. I take months or a year off from time to time but I do have about 1200 picture sleeves, just the fronts, cleaned up. Maybe a hundred or so CD single covers also. 45cat and other sites are good for the backs or the image of the media but it’s hard to find clean versions of the front artwork. So I started doing just that. I have many many more to scan and fix. For the 90s and beyond I don’t have too much 45s but that’s mostly because I can’t afford to buy the picture sleeve or I can’t find them in good enough condition to try to make them look good. CD single artwork is what I have been doing lately. I have a few boxes of those to scan. I don’t have to like the music to clean the art up but it helps me to get motivated. If it’s a cool or different front piece of artwork then the normal LP or cd and if I can afford it I will try to scan and clean it up for my never ending project.

Welcome to the forum ptgraphics!]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:55:41 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51433&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51433 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51431&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51431 Author: ptgraphics
Subject: 9062
Posted: 05 March 2019 at 11:02am

I have been scanning and cleaning up the fronts of 45 or 12” picture
sleeves and cd single front covers for about 7 years. I take months or a
year off from time to time but I do have about 1200 picture sleeves, just
the fronts, cleaned up. Maybe a hundred or so CD single covers also.
45cat and other sites are good for the backs or the image of the media
but it’s hard to find clean versions of the front artwork. So I started
doing just that. I have many many more to scan and fix. For the 90s
and beyond I don’t have too much 45s but that’s mostly because I can’t
afford to buy the picture sleeve or I can’t find them in good enough
condition to try to make them look good. CD single artwork is what I
have been doing lately. I have a few boxes of those to scan. I don’t
have to like the music to clean the art up but it helps me to get
motivated. If it’s a cool or different front piece of artwork then the
normal LP or cd and if I can afford it I will try to scan and clean it up for
my never ending project. ]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:02:38 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51431&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51431 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51427&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51427 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9062
Posted: 04 March 2019 at 10:34pm

Thanks. Didn't know any of these existed. Album Art Exchange is utterly fantastic Brian W, thanks!]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:34:26 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51427&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51427 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51426&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51426 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 9062
Posted: 04 March 2019 at 6:38pm

https://www.musicbrainz.com

https://www.covermytunes.com/
]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:38:29 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51426&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51426 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51425&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51425 Author: Brian W.
Subject: 9062
Posted: 04 March 2019 at 4:00pm

Album Art Exchange is a good resource.]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:00:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51425&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51425 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51424&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51424 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9062
Posted: 03 March 2019 at 11:48pm

Was wondering after about 1990 45cat is useless and discogs has cd single art, but not as high quality in some instances. I know for the 2007-2019 period wikipedia has cover art but it is very low res, and not as good as 45cat is with their scans. Does anyone here know where to get better cover art, even if one has to pay for it on a site or join somewhere?

I figure just like we all love music, someone somewhere must collect all this cover art in high res....

Edited by PopArchivist]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:48:09 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9062&PID=51424&title=finding-cover-art-beyond-45s#51424