Graphic design assets in this repository are used by the Nostlan game launcher.
One of my goals for the Nostlan game launcher project was to create a physical object based UI (aka skeuomorphic UI) for archival and nostalgic purposes. For example, the open box menu for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, a Gamecube game, looks like this:
I used the Adobe Lightroom app on my iPhone 6S Plus and shoot in Pro mode using the raw .DNG filetype. Photos taken with the default iPhone camera app are compressed in size, reducing image quality and resolution, they don't capture what the sensor is capable of. For lighting I used a desktop light with a white bulb and daylight from a nearby window, not any yellow/orange light sources. I shot from the center of the item, laying it out as flat as possible, trying to avoid reflections. I'm no professional graphic designer but I think the results were quite good if I do say so myself!
If the item was highly reflective, I took two pictures on a tripod and moved the disc relative to my light sources so reflections occurred on opposite sides. Then I could combine the photos and edit out the reflections.
I added a transparency layer and erased the backgrounds.
To get the edges of the game box to be artificially straight I used photoshop's perspective warp tool. I placed rectangles over each section of the box, then warped those points to be perfectly straight with the edges of the image.
I cut out clips and slots that should appear in front of game media and manuals.
I aligned the two images so that they matched perfectly then cross-faded between the sides with no reflections. The result looks pretty seamless.
The photos in this repository are public domain. Any photos submitted to me for use in this repository will be public domain. Do not submit photos to this repository if you wish to reserve your copyrights to the photos you submit.
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Nostlan and the Nostlan logo images are Copyright © 2019 Quinton Ashley. The Nostlan logo images are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. The template images found in the nostlan-img repository are public domain images using the Public Domain License CC0. The Nostlan software itself is fully open source and licensed under the copyleft GNU GPLv3 license.
If you're super super interested in my amateur graphic design work and want to see my photoshop files send me an email to request them: qashto@gmail.com