Amazon has an alright picture of what the jewel case insert, but since I am such a fan of the original album design,
I submitted a higher-res image of what the album really looked like with a blind-embossed title and original serial number treatment.
Check it out here (it should be the first one - “B. Serum”). and if you think it’s good, feed my ego and click “Yes” to the “Did you find this image helpful” question.
Shameless? Yes. But talented too, no?
So that’s what the original release looked like? Cool.
I’m listening to the White Album this week for the first time in years, and I’m really blown away by the great quality of the non-throwaway songs.
Posted my vote. Man, that looked good.
Many thanks! 
Definitely an improvement; you got the embossed title right.
Is it just my monitor, or does everyone see faint concentric circles in pastel colors? Cuz the original was just white. Like the title says.
Must be your monitor; I don’t see that on mine.
What puzzles me is why Amazon’s own CD image appears to be yellowed at the edges.
I was only going to vote if you got the slant right… and you did! Good man!
Clarification: The title of the listing - not the album itself
I think prior to record companies supplying Amazon with digital art to display at 500 x 500, they manually had to scan in every cover they got. Given that that’s a pretty huge job by itself, I have to guess they didn’t spend too much (or any) time to color-correct individual scans. That yellowing on the edge of Amazon’s image is just the bowing of the staple-side of the booklet (all saddle-stitch books have this bow). Their scanner must have been slightly out-of-calibration and it drifted to the warm side of the spectrum.
It’s actually a grayscale image. On my system, it’s a faint graduation of light-grays to white. I chose to do this instead of leaving it start white to reproduce real-life viewing conditions (light sources, bow of the sleeve, etc) and to make the blind-emboss Beatles title a bit more visible.
I’m wondering if your monitor can only display 256 colors and/or is dramatically un-calibrated.
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Years ago around Christmastime, I was standing out in a parking lot behind my car chattering with an artist friend. Idly, because I was somewhat restless, I dragged my fingers up and around and down on the dirt of my rear view window (I rarely washed my car). He eyed this for a moment as we chatted before reaching out and drawing the round specs and the nose and mouth.
It ended up looking not unlike this.
I know it’s nothing to do with the conversation at hand but I suddenly remembered it and wanted it to be someone else’s memory too
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Many, many thanks to everyone who liked my cover!
