Rear cover info-graphics

On the rear of any game there is usually a section at the bottom that tells the user some technical information about the game this can be things like Amount of players, Screen resolutions supported, save game space required, age rating  & wether there is downloadable content available to extend the life of the game. 


Pictured below is such a section from an existing game 

At first I thought it would be possible to cut these bits from an existing cover but after a couple of attempts I decided to create my own in a new .PSD file and then copy and paste them in to the final game cover.


The way I went about this was to create a white slightly transparent box so the images would have a constant backing to sit on I then created a large white empty PSD and then drew a rectangle with rounded edges using the draw tools.

After this I then drew a rectangle with the tool in grey then marked it out with rulers so I could accurately draw the inner white rounded rectangle inside. This then gave me the right shape to enter the text in to so I could make my info boxes look just like the original ones used by Microsoft game developers.

The next stage was to add the text to each box and then paste them in to the main game cover. Just like the original images I used a bright green #00FF00 for technical information referring to game play and bright orange #ff6000 for information referring to the games online capabilities.  

After each of these was created I selected both the box and text layers and copied the merged image to the main game cover I set up some guides in the main drawing to get the spacing even just as it would be on a real game cover.  As I transferred each image I reduced the size of them all by 80% so they would be an appropriate size for my image.  I was aware that this would probably have to be done because of the size of the PSD I had created to make the images in.

The next stage was to cut and paste the age rating information which I was able to cut from an existing game. I was able to cut the one for the rear giving it a fine black outer boarder and the one for the front with a nice fine white outer boarder because it was going on to a mostly black background.