Best Place to Get Images of CD Covers to post here at GMG?

[George]

I often get them right from Google Image, but when that comes up with nothing, I wonder if there is a more reliable source for (particularly medium-large sized) images of CD Covers to post here on GMG?

[71 dB]

Images of what? 

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[George]

Images of what? 

CD covers.

[Hector]

MDT.

Amazon.

jpc.de.

[Mark]

I think there's a gap in the market for a site offering high-quality, high-res album art imagery.

This said, I tend to keep mine small (155 x 155 pixels - the default size used by eMusic), not least to keep down the overall file size when embedding imagery into the ID3 tags on MP3s. Also, because I have a TINY MP3 player, what's the point of adding album art that's 500 x 500 pixels or larger? Can't be displayed at full resolution, and simply wastes storage space. As for viewing it on Windows Media Player, that defaults to 200 x 200 anyhow, so I ain't missing much.

[George]

I think there's a gap in the market for a site offering high-quality, high-res album art imagery.

This said, I tend to keep mine small (155 x 155 pixels - the default size used by eMusic), not least to keep down the overall file size when embedding imagery into the ID3 tags on MP3s. Also, because I have a TINY MP3 player, what's the point of adding album art that's 500 x 500 pixels or larger? Can't be displayed at full resolution, and simply wastes storage space. As for viewing it on Windows Media Player, that defaults to 200 x 200 anyhow, so I ain't missing much.

Thanks Mark.

I meant to post here on GMG. Like 300 or 400 pixels square. 

[Mark]

Oh, I see.

Yeah, any of the online stores: Presto, CD Universe, HMV, Amazon, JPC, Castle Classics, MDT, Classical CD Exchange, Crochet, etc ...

Also, try the sites of places like Hyperion, Chandos, Naxos, etc, where they sometimes have larger-sized album artwork for download aside from the display image used on the web pages themselves.

[71 dB]

I get the pics from Amazon or just Googling the CD name.

[BachQ]

Google
Amazon
Yahoo
Farmanimals

[Sergeant Rock]

I often get them right from Google Image, but when that comes up with nothing, I wonder if there is a more reliable source for (particularly medium-large sized) images of CD Covers to post here on GMG?

Since I'm old and blind I prefer large images (400 to 500 pixels wide) and those are hard to find online. So I make them myself. I scan the covers, downsize and severely compress the jpegs in Photoshop (so that images average 25 KB), and then upload them to my ImageEvent account. Besides the size, I don't have to worry about the image disappearing.

Sarge

[Mark]

I'd scan in my CD covers if:

a) I had a scanner that wasn't crappy

and

b) I could be bothered.

[George]

I'd scan in my CD covers if:

a) I had a scanner that wasn't crappy

and

b) I could be bothered.

or

c) I knew how.

(I agree with b, BTW. I often don't even like searching for photos online.) 

[Mark]

George, I really can't believe you're not tech savvy ... or at least, a little bit more so than you profess. You must have been curious to find out about technologies on offer, no? If so, give 'em a try. Getting OT here, but when I first began working in a job that involved a computer, I didn't even know how to operate Word! I had to learn fast, and inside six months I was buggering about (safely) in the PC's registry.

[Florestan]

http://www.classicalcdexchange.co.uk/index.php

Amazon

Arkiv Music

[George]

George, I really can't believe you're not tech savvy ... or at least, a little bit more so than you profess. You must have been curious to find out about technologies on offer, no? If so, give 'em a try. Getting OT here, but when I first began working in a job that involved a computer, I didn't even know how to operate Word! I had to learn fast, and inside six months I was buggering about (safely) in the PC's registry.

No, I am not interested in learning more about technology. I no longer have a job in an office, so there's no professional need for me to learn more at this point.

I'd be much happier to have monthly GMG meetings in some central location (NYC  ) in the world than ever touch a computer again.

I only started this thread 'cause I sometimes have trouble finding decent images to post and thought that maybe there was a site of two I hadn't heard about that y'all could direct me to.   

[Daverz]

I hot link from Amazon all the time.  It's poor netiquette, but I do it anyway.

[Mark]

I hot link from Amazon all the time.  It's poor netiquette, but I do it anyway.

Ditto.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'd scan in my CD covers if:
b) I could be bothered.

Mark, you know I have no life outside this forum. If I didn't spend my time scanning, I don't know what I'd do with myself 

Seriously, I have a superb, fast scanner and I'm quite adept at Photoshop. It takes 30 seconds to scan a cover into Photoshop, another 30 seconds to downsize and save. If I'm already logged into ImageEvent, the upload takes a few seconds. I can read a comment here and have a reply posted with a pic in less than three minutes. So, for me it isn't a bother. I love graphics, and I like to see things big online (so I can read the fine print without trouble). It actually gives me pleasure to post good pictures.

LP covers are more difficult. I don't post them very often. Because an LP cover is larger than the scanner bed, it takes two to four separate scans that have to be assembled in Photoshop. That is time-consuming. I'll do it occasionally with a rare LP or one with a great cover.

Sarge

[orbital]

Sarge, but you know you can directly scan the cover to the exact size and dpi depth you want, and in this way bypass the Photoshop step altogether -unless you are using it for other purposes as well (adjusting colors, etc)

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge, but you know you can directly scan the cover to the exact size and dpi depth you want, and in this way bypass the Photoshop step altogether -unless you are using it for other purposes as well (adjusting colors, etc)

I usually make a few quick adjustments (levels, unsharp mask) but you're right. It would be quicker to scan at the exact size I wanted. I might start doing that.

Sarge