Start to finish: Backlash 2009

Here I'm going to show from the early stages to the finished product of my WWE Backlash 2009 custom cover.

This wasn't the 1st part of the cover of course, I started with my template, but this is the 1st preview, and where I started.



In preview 2 the only part I added was the gray part on the back, now I'm no wizard at photoshop quite yet, but first off the whole red part is suppose to look something like a closeup of the WWE stage used for the event, and the gray part is the round part of the stage, which was a prop.



Then I added the match card/listing



After that to make it look a little more flashy, or at least to mix it up from looking too red I added a text to it..



Once I made it look more "flashy" I added a few pics, with some borders. Of course there's Edge PSD on the front, there was no intention to put anyone on the front besides Orton, he's just there because he was to be used on the back.



After that I add some PSD's to the back above the pics just to fill in some empty spaces. Plus I put a little effects on the pics to make them flow more with the cover.



And here it is the finished product I added a few more PSD's, and touched up everything a little. Its not my best cover, nor is it my worst, but here is my Backlash 2009 custom cover finished.

WIP cover #2

Here we have Cyber Sunday 2008, I don't know for sure if I ever showed this or not, but it was a early WIP cover that I ended up not even going with, maybe I should of because I still think it looked better then what I had when I finished.

Just for show: Royal Rumble 1990

This is one of my early VHS covers I turned into a DVD cover, but it's still a cover you wont find almost anywhere in dvd form, even if it looks a little second rate. In the near future I hope to do up a cover for it.

Looking back vol.1 My first WCF cover preview

The cover here below is the first cover I previewed, or showed off, when I first joined the WCF though since then the site has moved on to its new forum, which is where the link goes to.

So anyway the cover:



A custom cover of Wrestlemania 3, it was finished later on, and will be posted here in the near future, but also it is a cover that I made well before I had any photoshop skills, in fact the cover was made using paintshop 8, a program I used to make all my covers before joining the WCF.

The cover its self is based on the Wrestlemania 6,7 & 8 back style of showing stock photo pics of the wrestlers.

It turned out to be one the covers of mine most people like, I've never really heard anything bad about it.

Unreleased custom cover #4 Wrestlemania 12

Here is a cover I never released, nor previewed. It is WWF Wrestlemania 12, a little of it is based on the official cover, and the magazine ad.

Event Info: via Wikipedia

Coming soon...

By this time next week on about June 16th, I will be showing off an early preview of my WWE "the Bash" custom cover, unlike where I post all of my covers, I will be showing off the cover in a more detailed progress here, then I would there, where as in WCF I might only show off the preview once it gets looking good, or just when its has a front made, I don't really care to show off many in my progress to finishing my cover, but I do always keep many previews.

Future Project: Wrestlemania 1

Maybe not my very next project, but one I'll be working on soon is Wrestlemania 1. Not only will I be making a very high res one of the official VHS, in other words a convert, but also I hope to do a custom one, which no one has done that I know of.

Here is the front I'll be working with (original one is much larger), and props to my friend Crumble at PSDprotolcol & WCF for making the 2 images better.



And here is the back part, its not as clean as the front, but still its alot better then what I started with.

WIP cover #1

Another first of a series of covers that I will show is my WIP (work in progress) covers.

This is a early convert of WWF King of the Ring 1993, as you can see I have a ways to go, I've been working on this a few weeks now, but I've been side tracked by alot of stuff, and mean while trying to finish the Extreme Rules cover.

Unreleased-unfinished custom cover #2

This is a custom of Royal Rumble 1989, it like the topic says is unfinished and has never been seen by anyone, its part of my Royal Rumble project.

Unreleased-unfinished custom cover #1

Some of the covers I will show are one's I've never released or shown anyone, also ones I didn't get finished, or that I would just call a project cover, well this is just a preview of a project I hope to have finished by Royal Rumble 2010. Of course I plan on having this cover its self look alot better then it does. And by then I hope to be alot better with photoshop by then.

Anyway this is of Royal Rumble 1990, it has Demolition on the front, only major unfinished part is the match card part.

WWF WWE Wrestlemania 4 Magazine style

This does have a bit of custom work done on the back for the logo and match card, because on the program there is no match card like this.

This cover is made from the official WWF Wrestlemania 4 Program

Event Info: via Wikipedia
WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 27, 1988 at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The main event was the finals of a 14-man tournament for the WWF Championship where Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. The main matches on the undercard were a 20-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown, Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Brutus Beefcake versus The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Championship and a 14-man tournament for the vacated WWF Championship.

WWF WWE Wrestlemania 7 convert

Another one of my early converts, and one of my favs. This I think was my first Wrestlemania convert, I also have a custom of it I'll be posting later. Also a 2nd version.

Event Info; via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestlemania_7
WrestleMania VII was the seventh annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 24, 1991 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. WrestleMania VII was originally supposed to be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but it was decided to move the event to the adjacent Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The World Wrestling Federation's stated reason for the venue change was that a threat had been issued towards the company in the wake of Sgt. Slaughter's portrayal of an Iraqi sympathizer; others have cited slow ticket sales.

The tagline for the event was "Superstars and Stripes Forever," and is remembered for its theme of American patriotism. American flags were hung all over the arena and the ring apron and banners were colored red, white, and blue, which was the basis for the main event between Hulk Hogan and Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF Championship. WrestleMania VII is remembered for the emotional reunion between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and his manager, Miss Elizabeth, which occurred following "The Ultimate Warrior getting his Ultimate Win" (as Henry Winkler put it on the broadcast) over Savage in a "Retirement Match". The theme song to this event, "Worldwide Spectacle", was written by WWF's internal composer, Jim Johnston.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1987 magazine style

I have many like this, I'll be posting those later. Anyway what this is, is a cover based on the official program and official program match card, there wasn't much work done with this, plus it has a simple spine with it.

The Magazine it came from is the official WWF Survivor Series 1987 Program

Event Info: via Wikipedia
Survivor Series (1987) was the first Survivor Series pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1987 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio.

The main event was a Survivor Series match where André the Giant's team defeated Hulk Hogan's team when André eliminated Hogan's team member Bam Bam Bigelow. The entire undercard featured Survivor Series matches which included Randy Savage's team defeating The Honky Tonk Man's team, The Fabulous Moolah's team defeating Sensational Sherri's team and Strike Force with 4 other tag teams defeating The Hart Foundation and 4 other tag teams.

WWF WWE Summerslam 1988 custom cover

This might be my first custom "convert" I redid the whole thing, the official convert will be posted later. The only thing custom about this is that it features the Ultimate Warrior on it, and has the Ultimate Warrior wrote in on the IC title match with Honky Tonk Man, in the official its suppose to be Beefcake.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
SummerSlam (1988) was the first annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event. It was produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and took place on August 29, 1988 in Madison Square Garden, located in New York, New York. The pay-per-view was created to help the company compete against rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (formally Jim Crockett Promotions). It was one of the first four annual pay-per-view events produced by the WWF, along with WrestleMania, the Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series. Reviews for the event were mixed.

Ten professional wrestling matches, performances with pre-determined outcomes between wrestlers with fictional personalities that are portrayed as real, were featured. The main match of the preliminary bouts was the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between The Ultimate Warrior and the reigning champion The Honky Tonk Man. The Ultimate Warrior won the match in approximately thirty seconds to end the longest Intercontinental Championship reign up to that point. The main event was a match pitting The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) against their long-time rivals, The Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and André the Giant). Hogan and Savage won the match after Miss Elizabeth, Savage's wife and manager, distracted the referee by removing her skirt to reveal her underwear. After SummerSlam, Hogan and Savage were scripted to begin an on-screen feud, culminating at WrestleMania V, where Hogan won the WWF Championship from Savage

WWF WWE Summerslam 1989 convert

This was my first full convert, meaning I redone all the text.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
SummerSlam (1989) was the second annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on August 28, 1989 in the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The main event was a tag team match between The Mega-Maniacs (WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake) and the team of Randy Savage and Zeus. The main matches on the undercard were Ted DiBiase versus Jimmy Snuka, Ultimate Warrior versus Rick Rude for the WWF Intercontinental Championship and Jim Duggan and Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus André the Giant and The Twin Towers (Akeem and Big Boss Man).

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1988 convert

This was done a while ago, I really think it turned out awesome, in the future I want to do it again, maybe even use magazine scans to make it even more detailed.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1990 custom cover

This is a cover many people have liked or wanted, because of it having the Undertaker, even most have just wanted the other I have which still has the question mark, that will be posted later.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1987 convert

Of course this cover has a typo, but until I can find the psd of this it will always have the typo. Or at least until I do this cover again.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
Survivor Series (1987) was the first Survivor Series pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1987 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio.

The main event was a Survivor Series match where André the Giant's team defeated Hulk Hogan's team when André eliminated Hogan's team member Bam Bam Bigelow. The entire undercard featured Survivor Series matches which included Randy Savage's team defeating The Honky Tonk Man's team, The Fabulous Moolah's team defeating Sensational Sherri's team and Strike Force with 4 other tag teams defeating The Hart Foundation and 4 other tag teams.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1989 custom cover

This was one I made a while ago, before I had owned the VHS box, and before I had a good working scanner, so main reason for everything looking as weird as it does is because everything was done from taking photos with my camera of pages of the December 1989 WWF Magazine. Of course I already had the main layout.

In the future I plan on making another Survivor Series 89 custom featuring the match pics from the magazine, like this one, but scanned at 600dpi, making it look alot better.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1991 custom cover

This cover is very much like my other Survivor Series 91 custom, but it has the front staying original, with the back being custom.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
Survivor Series (1991) was the fifth annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Eve, November 27, 1991 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first Survivor Series to feature a singles match (or a title match).

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1991 custom cover

The back of this is done up from the December 1991 WWF Magazine all scanned at 600dpi, and the front at the bottom is from the ad. Rest on the front is official. And this cover in general is a "wrestling mark" type cover, because it features wrestlers who were scheduled to wrestle but didn't due to injury and the card being changed, but this cover is based on the original card.

Here is the poster which the idea on the front came from:




Event Info: via Wikipedia
Survivor Series (1991) was the fifth annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Eve, November 27, 1991 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first Survivor Series to feature a singles match (or a title match).

WWE Wrestlemania 25 custom cover

This was one of the few WM25 covers I finished, it is based on the WWF Wrestlemania 4 VHS cover, so its meant to look old school and basic. The WMXXV logo was made by me, I like how that turned out.

WWF WWE SNME dvd cover

This was a cover someone wanted me to work on and improve, I have no idea the official name of this video, or the date it was released, just that it was released in the UK. But it is a Saturday Nights Main Event cover from around 1988-1989

Here is what it looked like before I worked on it.

WWF WWE Wrestlemania 9 custom cover

Here is my Wrestlemania 9 custom cover, IMO its my best classic cover I've made. The theme is based around the "Welcome to Vegas" sign, along with a little based on the original cover.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
WrestleMania IX was the ninth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. The event took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 4, 1993 and was the first WrestleMania event held outdoors. The buildup to the pay-per-view consisted of feuds scripted by the WWF's writers, and the matches that took place at the event had pre-determined outcomes that had been decided by the promotion.

WrestleMania IX was built around two main storylines. The first was the seemingly unstoppable Yokozuna challenging Bret Hart for the WWF Championship, a right he earned by winning the 1993 Royal Rumble. The other major storyline was the return of Hulk Hogan, who had departed the WWF following WrestleMania VIII but returned to team with Brutus Beefcake against the WWF Tag Team Champions, Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster). Hogan and Beefcake lost the tag team match, but Hogan later faced Yokozuna for the title after Yokozuna defeated Hart to win the championship. In addition, Shawn Michaels retained the WWF Intercontinental Championship, though he lost his match against Tatanka.

Several reviewers have been critical of the event. The most frequent criticism has been related to the match between The Undertaker and Giant Gonzalez, Hulk Hogan's title win, and the Roman togas worn by the WWF's announcers. Both the pay-per-view buyrate and the attendance for the event dropped from the previous year's WrestleMania. The WWF has rated two moments from WrestleMania IX as among the best WrestleMania moments of all time: Hogan winning the WWF title and commentator Bobby Heenan entering the arena on a camel.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1989 custom cover

Heres one of a few customs I made for WWF Survivor Series 1989, this one features the Million Dollar team on the front, as to the original that features Hogans team. Some of the other stuff added to the front are from the WWF Magazine and official program ads, and the top is from the mid 80s WWF videos, that being the top header of Coliseum Video Presents. The back is all still original.

WWE Extreme Rules 2009 custom cover

Just finished this cover yesterday, it took almost a week to finish. It might be my best "custom" cover to date.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on June 7, 2009 at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was the fifth show in the lineage of the One Night Stand event, but the first to be referred to as Extreme Rules. It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. There were eight matches scheduled on the event's card, though nine actually took place.

The main event was a ladder match for the World Heavyweight Championship, which saw the Jeff Hardy defeat the reigning champion Edge to win the title, only to have CM Punk cash in the Money in the Bank contract, which guaranteed him a title match at anytime he pleased, and defeat Hardy for his newly-won title. There were also two other highly-publicized matches; the first was a steel cage match for the WWE Championship between the champion Randy Orton and Batista, as well as a submission match between The Big Show and John Cena. The undercard for the show had five other matches: a Fatal Four-Way match for the WWE United States Championship, a No Holds Barred match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, CM Punk versus Umaga in a Samoan Strap match, a Triple Threat Hardcore match for the ECW Championship, and Santina Marella versus Vickie Guerrero in Hog Pen match for the title of "Miss WrestleMania".