Sorry, been really busy to get back here. Thanks for the replies, here's some ideas of what i'm doing/done and the *basic* uses of photoshop i need:
1st cover is before, 2nd is after i'm done with it. 3rd cover is an obstacle because the pictures are tilted to the side. That's an issue cause i usually just crop/resize and whatnot with infranview & mspaint. basic, i know, but it got me this far. Anyway, you can find some of my works
here in this thread. The photoshop would help me make some of the fancy covers look even more convincing. Tilded pictures with borders and circle shaped pictures are impossible for me right now.
So basically, what i'm doing is taking cedars uploads and the covers he is able to privide and i improve them so they appear at least half decent when printed out for a dvd case. usually a cover scan found on the net of about 100kb ends up with a back cover looking like ass.