Cover Images

Before submitting new scans of cover art, make sure your new covers are of significantly higher quality than the existing online images, and meet the following criteria:

Released DVDs

• The covers must match the profile exactly, including the UPC and locality.
• Image size must be at least as large as the existing online covers. If you don't have a premium registration, you will be unable to verify this. Therefore, submit only images you have personally scanned at 100 DPI or higher.
• If you scan images for your personal database at a quality that are higher than 100 DPI, you may still submit them. If accepted, they will automatically be downsized for inclusion in the main database.
• Image quality must be at least on par with the existing online covers. Covers that are larger than existing images but are of inferior clarity will not be accepted.
• Images must not contain extra watermarks, autographs, or site links.
• Images must be of the front and back only. Do not include the spine in either the front or back image.
• Make sure neither front nor back is of lesser quality than the existing scans.
• Before scanning: Remove shrink wrap from the box; Remove Keep Case art from the case; Remove Snapper art from the Snapper case; Remove all stickers.
• If a DVD is packaged in a keep case, within a slipcase of some kind,as a case within a Slip Cover, scan the Cover Images from the outer sSlipcase Cover. If, however, the sSlipcaseCover is reflective, and the inner cover art is identical, use the Keep Case art to scan,scan the inner cover art, as it will give a better quality image.
• In those instances where multiple outer Slip Covers are available with a single inner cover art version, submit the inner cover art for the master database.
• If a title is re-released with the same UPC, but different cover images, do not contribute the new images. This includes cases where a DVD was initially released in a slipcase, which was later removed. As explained in the introduction, you may use your personal images in your local database, but they will not show online.
• Do not contribute generic "Coming Soon" images. If the back image is not yet available (as in a pre-release), use the front images in both places.

Pre-releases

• Use pre-release images issued by distributors or other non-copyrighted sources.
• Images must not contain extra watermarks, autographs, or site links.
• Do not contribute generic "Coming Soon" images.
• If the back image is not yet available, use the front images in both places.