Graphic design assets for Nostlan, the nostalgia launcher.
Many of the game box images were created by me (quinton-ashley) and are public domain under the CC0 license.
Other images were sourced from various online archives and communities, see Nostlan's Credits page.
Nostlan's open box menu aims to recreate the nostalgic experience of opening a game box, admiring its contents, and popping out the game to play.
For example, here's the open box menu for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door:
I used the Adobe Lightroom app on my iPhone 6S Plus and shot in Pro mode using the raw .DNG filetype. Photos taken with the default iPhone camera app are compressed in size, reducing image quality and resolution, they don't capture what the sensor is capable of. For lighting I used a desktop light with a white bulb and daylight from a nearby window, not any yellow/orange light sources. I shot from the center of the item, laying it out as flat as possible, trying to avoid reflections. I'm not a professional graphic designer by any means but I think the results are quite good!
I added a transparency layer and erased the backgrounds.
To create an orthographic view of the open game box, I used photoshop's perspective warp tool. I placed rectangles over each section of the box, then warped those points to be perfectly straight with the edges of the image.
I cut out clips and slots that appear in front of game media and manuals.
