Thanks for the praise!
I didn't expect to fool anybody, but thought that April 1 was the perfect time to show it off. It's been finished for a couple of days.
The main aim of the project was to replicate all the text elements of the Episode II cover. I got all the right fonts and messed around with all the sizes and colours and everything, until I had a bunch of text layers that recreated the text on that Episode II cover (which was as a layer underneath for me to work on).
After that I decided to make a "mock" Episode III cover. I knew it would never look anything close to the real thing. One of the main problems was that I didn't have any hi-res stills, I had tons of stills for Episode III, just none that were high enough resolution. This meant that the front montage and the back still would look pretty crap (they're all images that were upsized 300%). The other problem was the lens flare, I used a ton of them, but couldn't get any that looked close, so I had to leave it out.
Anyway, I'll keep this cover and update it with the true features in November, I'll also snoop around for higher quality pictures. This isn't a cover that I'd be releasing for download - It's just a nice challenge to try and recreate something as accurately as possible.
So, aside from issues relating to the stills, can anyone see any other areas where I could fix things up? Please let me know in this thread. Be brutal, I don't mind. Ironically, this is the closest I've ever come to showing you guys my custom covers. I guess that's because all my other ones are incomplete. :b