This pack was missing from my collection, so I decided to reproduce the sleeve to complete a 1040 STE pack.
I got help from only one person on the Atari Forum, so special thanks to Catmando for helping me with high-res images.
The artwork is printed on strong vinyl coated paper, easy to bend and resist dust and tear.
I found 3 different versions of this sleeve.
I have the Discovery Xtra box for the software and this graphics is on it. So after scanning I removed the Discovery Xtra text, the background and also made other improvements.
All the texts are re-drawn in Illustrator in vector format. I used reference photos to find the correct fonts.
Downloaded the game's box scan and modelled the logo.
Luckily this screenshot from the game is right at the beginning so I downloaded the emulator file and fired up Hatari.
Took couple of the screenshots and then PhotoShopped them together to set the names and power indicators in the correct positions.
I own the game so scanned the owners manual, where the text is black and then did the trace in Illustrator.
Changed it to yellow and the logo was ready. I found that the screenshot is from the San Francisco scenario..so in Hatari again, I went there and found the place for the screenshot.
I took a couple and used parts of them to get the screenshot closest to original.
Re-drawn the logo completely in Illustrator.
Downloaded a longplay video from YouTube and grabbed frames from it. Used different frames to match the lives left at the bottom. Added the PAWS at the end in Illustrator.
Image: unedited frame grab
The logo is fully redrawn and 3-4 screenshots used to match up scores/bombs/other indicators.
Image: unedited Emulator frame grab
The interesting thing here is the STE computer image which I wanted to Photosop first but then I remembered something and looked at my shelf
Oh yes, the Turbo pack has this image all over. Ok so lets scan. Saved myself some time here.
I used Catmando's images as reference to get most of the fonts recognized. So typing the text in wasn't really a challenge but the Productivity packs...
The Productivity pack covers are another story. I bought some of them and scanned them, so I had a good base but then realized I cant get them all and also different scans looked differently, scans are grainy, etc. So decided to uniform them. Using my best scan I removed all the icons (feather, chart, etc) in Photoshop to get the pure background. Also tidied up the text . Then in Illustrator I recreated all logos for the individual elements. Used folders in Photoshop for each pack, so I just had to switch them on and off when did the final export. The bottom text is also different on some of them, there are 3 kind in total.
Barcode is a standard code so I just punched the numbers in then saved and used the generated image.