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Okay, here's one I don't think anyone really asked for, but nonetheless, the characters first appeared in a comic book, so it fits my criteria, and I'm not going to lie, it was kind of fun doing something with girly colors for a change. So here's covers for both the 1970 animated series and 2001 feature film for "Josie and the Pussycats!" The 2001 film isn't as horrible as most might expect, but I've never really watched the 70's show to compare.

The Josie TV series is also the first cover I've done with my brand new 500GB HD, 8GB RAM Macbook Pro running CS5 Master Collection, so I'm pretty excited for the upgrade!

This brings my collection to 245 DVD covers, I think I'll try to squeeze out five more to make it an even 250 before I take a break, but I'm on vacation next week so that might take a bit longer to hit that mark.

Josie and the Pussycats: The Complete Series:
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Josie and the Pussycats:
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Enjoy!

dang man how many covers is that? Do you have all these printed out?

THE GOOD GUY wrote:

QUOTE (THE GOOD GUY @ Aug 6 2010, 03:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

dang man how many covers is that? Do you have all these printed out?

Strangely enough, I haven't printed a single one of them. I just like to make them and hope that others can find a use for them!

Love the Josie covers but they make me a bit sad.

I met Dan DeCarlo shortly before he passed and got the full poop on the Josie movie. Seems Archie didn't want to give him credit as the creator of the characters. It didn't matter that his wife's name is Josie and he used to call his kids the Pussycats. It also didn't matter that he had developed a strip called Josie and the Pussycats, to shop around for syndication with a newspaper before the comic. It also didn't matter that Archie came to him and offered to publish it so he didn't have to deal with the syndicates. As far as they were concerned the characters were all theirs and they weren't going to share. At least that's the story I was told. Dan was one of the nicest people I'd ever met. He ranked right up there with Will Eisner.

Again, great covers Kernie. Excellent title treatment on the animated cover.

Dammit all you! Give the man a break once a while. Haven't Andrew done enuff for all you leeching schmucks????! :ban:











Let's just leave the pussycat alone, and make no such suggestions or hints as 'Green Lantern' (2010)









*born bad*

That's intense, so how was the comparison to CS3 to CS5 in your opinion being an expert on the programs. By the i've being to ask you this how long does it take you to make a cover & a label ? I've just starting out hopefully once I've figured it all out I can make covers as cool as yours. 'm think about actually taking two college course at my local college for photo shop and illustrator.

So roughly how did it take you to learn the programs and master it? just curious because i'm hoping to maybe not master but at least accomplish something to feel proud of. Anyways keep up the good work and enjoy your vacation and by the nice job on the Josie and the pussycats stuff.

Rachael Leigh Cook....mmm.mmmmm.mmmmm....not so much Tara Reid...pluuu Nice covers K82!

RRJR84 wrote:

QUOTE (RRJR84 @ Aug 6 2010, 10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's intense, so how was the comparison to CS3 to CS5 in your opinion being an expert on the programs. By the i've being to ask you this how long does it take you to make a cover & a label ? I've just starting out hopefully once I've figured it all out I can make covers as cool as yours. 'm think about actually taking two college course at my local college for photo shop and illustrator.

So roughly how did it take you to learn the programs and master it? just curious because i'm hoping to maybe not master but at least accomplish something to feel proud of. Anyways keep up the good work and enjoy your vacation and by the nice job on the Josie and the pussycats stuff.

To help out kernie here, I'm gonna answer you.

You cannot just ask 'how long it took' to learn the skills of each and every of the many talented - or even super-talented .... well, and also those beyond-believable-supercool designers here, or at any other site for that matter.
It all depends - in the end of the talent, time and well, addiction to making covers.

Luckily we have a great community of Learning
going here, and you're welcome to join, that you too can learn some of the skills

Please read the FAQ for any other Qs you may have towards this matter. Have nice day.

Ok now I'm curious as to what this film s like!! Nice looking covers by the way, like the TT on the animated cover thanks Andy

RRJR84 if you expect to learn Photoshop overnight and master it, then you must have a very high learning curve or your deluded, I've been using Photoshop for the last 3 years or so, and still learning something new all the time, you can learn the basics in a couple of weeks but to get to the stage where your creating covers to the calibre of some of the guys on here it's going to take you a while.

Good look though

To answer some of RR's questions, the switch to CS5 isn't that jarring if you know CS3. Sure there's some great new features, but if you know how to make a good design, you could do still be doing everything on Photoshop 6.0.

As for the "how long it took" questions. A given cover and label set ranges anywhere from probably an hour to 10 hours using this template. If I have a great selection of artwork available (the main hurdle), a vector title treatment, a buttload of stills to choose from, quick-to-find comic art, and a clear vision of what I want to see without spending a lot of time "experimenting," I could crank one out in about 1-2 hours. Other covers that require vectorizing the TT, designing my own keyart, scouring the net for comic art and stills, and thinking of something to put in that circular logo area on the back cover, could take a day or two or roughly about 10-12 hours of work. Then throw in a hour for the Blu-ray conversion, an hour or two for the labels, and the uploading time. And that's all while working within an established template. The reason I don't do many standalone covers is because I overanalyze it and some covers can take several weeks. Given all the time it takes to make these, I hope that helps some folks better understand why I don't just click my heels and fill their requests. Maybe I make this look too easy...

As for how long did it take to learn Adobe programs and master them, well... I doubt anyone is truly a master. I feel like I know Photoshop like the back of my hand, but I'm constantly finding new parts to the back of my hand that I never knew existed. I've been using Photoshop for 10 years, Illustrator/After Effects/Dreamweaver for 8 or 9, and various others for about that same time. I don't think I really started getting any good at it until about Year 5 or 6. And this is coming from a guy who spent his time earning his degree in Graphic Design actually goofing around in and learning the Adobe programs and not getting p155-a$$ drunk on weekends (well, there was some of that too).

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, he talks about the "10,000 Hour Rule," which is essentially how much time a person must spend practicing something to achieve success (he cites Bill Gates and The Beatles as examples of this phenomenon). Now, I've never counted, but I'm sure I've clocked that in Photoshop. So I recommend getting a stop-watch and start practicing, practicing, practicing. A couple video tutorials won't tell you much other than where your basic tools are.

If you're serious enough to take classes, I'd recommend taking a Two-Dimensional Design class before any Photoshop classes, you probably won't do much on the computer, but you'll learn some fundamental design concepts like layout, color theory, and maybe some typography if you're lucky. Photoshop is a tool, a means to an end, but you have to know design first. A man might be able to use a brush, but he might not know how to paint... if that makes any sense.

I talk too much... :doh: