Reddit reviews 10 Empty Deluxe Blu-ray Replacement Cases for Blue-ray Disc Movies 11mm Thickness with Silver Embossed Logo

Thanks. These are the ones I buy. The actual ps4 cases are slightly smaller and cost about twice as much so I just get those ones.

Hey! Sorry I didn't get back to you last night. Let me walk you through my process step-by-step:

Finding the right art for the cover is the hardest part for me. Usually I go to Google Images, put in the title of the movie I'm doing, then set it to look for large images, and choose a good poster or something. Of these four, Le Boucher and Les Bonnes Femmes are posters I found on Google Images, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is an awesome image I found on deviantArt.

When doing that, choosing what to put on the back cover is the hardest part. Usually I cut out something from the poster or an image from the film (as you can see in the bottom two; Les Bonnes Femmes is a cut-out from this well-known poster, and for Le Boucher I cut off the bottom quarter of this poster and put it on the back; the rest of the back cover for Les Bonnes Femmes was the same solid color as on the poster, but it was harder for Le Boucher, since a solid red looked weird. To get around that, I copied a small area from the poster and put it on the back, then pasted it again, flipped it, and put it in, and continued taking other chunks and rearranging them until they covered the whole back. I did the same thing for the empty space I had on the spine). For the first custom cover I did, for Breathless before I knew it was in the Criterion Collection, I cut out an image of the main characters together, put it on the bottom of the cover and let the rest be white, and put a quote from the film in the middle. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia has the image wrap around the case; the only changes I made were to switch the title and the director's credit so the title is on the front, and to put the name on the spine by copying the title and moving the words to be side-by-side, then sticking that where the spine goes.

Now, that only applies to films that don't have wide releases; for Kill Bill, for example, a quick search for "kill bill vol 1 cover" brings me all this. Sometimes even for films like that, I hate the covers given, and decide to make my own anyways. I normally would have done something different for A Better Tomorrow, but I got lucky and found a high-res cover, and, like I said, got kinda lazy with it.

Anyways, actually making the cover in Photoshop is pretty easy. It all just comes down to measurements. Note: These measurements are specific for these empty cases, which are the ones I use, which have a thickness of 11mm. Other size cases, including normal cases you get here in the west, will require other measurements. You'll just have to fiddle around until you get something that works for you, I'm afraid. Even if you're not planning on using the 11mms, I can at least give you my measurements as a starting point:

When I go into Photoshop, I make a single document which is 3168 pixels wide by 1823 pixels tall. The front and back cover, then, get resized in a new tab to 1527 x 1823 and put on each end of the document. I make the spine in a new document at 1823 pixels wide, 114 pixels tall, then flip it once I'm done, so it's 114 pixels wide, 1923 tall, and put it in the middle of the original document. I then save that for web and documents and load it into Microsoft Word, where Word makes it really small. In Word, I resize it to be 10.67 inches wide by 5.87 inches tall, and flip it so it fits on the page. If there's any white on the edges of the cover, I put a border around the whole thing so I know where to cut. Then I print it, cut it out and put it in the case, and it fits just about perfectly.

To be honest, I have no idea if the pixel count even really matters all that much, since I resize it in Word anyways, but doing this process works for me, so I don't change anything.

Sorry, there's probably a lot of unnecessary info here. If you have any questions or need any clarification, feel free to ask.