What If...Agnetha DVDs

How did you read my mind? 


I'll be blunt for a while: All jokes aside: yes, it does look rather amateurish with that rather big DVD emblem, but not worse: around 3.5/5, that it's acceptable by bootleggers to use one of these DVD covers – I've seen something worse than this, if it makes you feel better: but I'm not going to type it every darn minute pointing out what's wrong and doing nothing: A thought lead me to this: "if you criticize, you'll have to do it yourself to prove your statement" 

Given that you've stated the tracklist of your fanmade Agnetha DVDs and it's in a square format, it is highly unorthodox for a typical ABBA-related DVD, or a typical movie/music video/TV special DVD for that; to remedy it, I suggest that it can be put on the back of every fan-made DVD cover. You don't want to spoil everything in the DVD, because the front cover is where the viewer will catch its attention with it – just an image of something flattering to Agnetha (a funny photo of Agnetha won't do unless it's the 'Best of Agnetha's Funny Moments'), a unique text & font, complementary colors (where the color does not hurt the eyes to you or to the viewers), and some touch-up like a bunch of stage lighting and the glam and flares that will appeal to the people who love and obsess over her (optional, but you can make its own look from being minimalist to being straightup flashy and well art-directed.)

They don't want to catch an attention with something full of tracklist unless you're Marcel Duchamp or any of the abstract artists) I don't see Universal's "Frida – The DVD" or ABBA's "The Definite Collection" having a tracklist on the front cover, do I?   Without that DVD emblem, it looks like some well made LP bootleg from the Warsaw Pact.

    

I've done two fanmade covers (which one attracts your attention by terms of text placement?) of the Blu-ray of 'The Heat is On' TV special (Recommended for viewing the Blu-ray cover at large resolution.), but there's a lot of flaws since I made this circa midnight.

Alex, I didn't want you to think that you were better off with making record covers – I was only trying to give you a feedback on the DVD covers you made and was trying to give you an insight of what an ideal DVD cover may look like. My message probably was misinterpreted because there was a bit of humour inappropriately – but let this be known that I was trying to set up an example of it and encourage you to create more fanmade Agnetha DVD covers but in a better format as I described:




I apologise if I come across as being vague, but a lot of research of DVD templates can be done easily nowadays and it's the key path to accomplishing something you've always thought of.

There's no way to think that you're better off with just doing record covers: it's almost impossible to stay in just only one tier of photoshopping. I'm planning to take an Adobe class next year but I'm closely tied to my faithful Macintosh equivalent of Paint.NET [Pixelmator] – So I think ABBAinter.net surpassed me as a photoshopper by a mile: that doesn't discourage me from it – you can learn from anyone who shows a nice example of how it should be done and then expand your knowledge on photoshopping, from replicating it and restoring to making it borderline original. I'm no Hipgnosis, but I can learn from the graphic designers who did it, but I haven't got much time due to my other commitments (e. g. my drawings, assignments, all of that).

I've been photoshopping for 6 years and I still have yet to improve (reason: evolution) – At some time, you can get out of your comfort zone in the photoshopping skill (I have, at some point), and explore more ideas such as Agnetha playing the bassoon or Benny with a saxophone. :-) Don't let one thing discourage you from it: if you think someone's is better, then you can spend any day or weekend trying to think of how you can be as good as someone else – but the most important thing: effectulate the idea into what is desired. I barely make plans about ideas because most of the photoshops I made, are improvised. They may seem planned but it's definitely an improv.

It's not a competition, and some things aren't immediate like anyone's first photoshop – their 37th photoshopping could be more successful than anyone's very first. The key: perseverance. We all make mistakes, but we succeed when a few practices is made. Hang in there, Alex. If graphics designing is your passion, then go for it and don't be just stuck in only one tier!