Steely Dan – Two Against Nature
Released: 2000
Label: Giant Records/Rhino Entertainment/Warner Music Group
Notes:
Front cover: This a Record Store 2021 purchase. I ordered it so I wouldn’t be going in (not safe). It arrived in dead perfect condition. See? LPs can travel well when shipped properly. Did nothing but scan this.
Sheet-front: Perfect sleeve. Very easily scanned.
Sheet-back: Same on this side. Nothing to do when they’re perfect. As is the case with all sleeves, this will open up far bigger if you use the right-click trick so you can read it all clearly. These sleeves are scanned at 1200 dpi so they look perfect when opened up to true size.
Back cover: The struggle to get the color right on this side was difficult. The scanner kept wanting a truer blue and that’s not accurate to the back of the LP. It took several tries to really nail but I got there.
Labels: The labels also refused to scan at the correct color. I had to fight with these as well – eventually “paint bucket”-ing the labels with the true orange as appears on the label as the scanner continually scanned the color as weaker than it is. There was no choice. As I applied the “paint bucket” as the largest size, the font wasn’t affected at all. Also, dig the etching on side 4. I wasn’t even aware it was there until I took the LP out for scanning. How cool!