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Post by markcbrown on Mar 16, 2021 17:37:53 GMT
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Post by BlueAndGold on Mar 16, 2021 19:02:31 GMT
I think they are gorgeous blown up, however I find the smaller words "the white tree" and "Mark C. Brown" to be a bit of a strain to read.
I think the problem is that my little walnut brain has a hard time converting the fuzzy highlighting of the letters into letters. For that reason, I would either make the highlighting a solid white (no fuzz), or, preferably, the letters themselves a solid white with no highlighting.
IMHO, FWIW.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Mar 16, 2021 19:04:05 GMT
By the way, I love the way you incorporate the images into the title. (Oval, sword, stone.) Very artistic.
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Post by markcbrown on Mar 17, 2021 2:31:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 6:06:19 GMT
I've never had this before. I got this when I clicked on your covers markcbrown. "Uhhh... We're really sorry about this, but due to an angry bear server issues we could not load this forum. Our technicians are aware of this problem and hope to have the Err Bear under control this situation sorted shortly!"
Well eventually they got the bear under control and I was able to view the larger images.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 7:51:52 GMT
I think they're fantastic.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Mar 17, 2021 11:57:06 GMT
On my tablet the words are now totally illegible. I recommend you make them plain white.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 15:09:10 GMT
markcbrown This is a good tip from one of our members---- ronmiller . (who is a professional designer of book covers) He advises changing the image of the cover to greyscale or black and white and it will show whether everything looks good and if the title and author can be clearly seen. By the way did you mean to spell Chronicles ------Chronicals?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 17, 2021 15:11:12 GMT
Part of the issue B&G is having might be due to contrast.
I think Ron Miller posted something about color values and contrast.
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Post by markcbrown on Mar 17, 2021 15:38:23 GMT
markcbrown This is a good tip from one of our members---- ronmiller . (who is a professional designer of book covers) He advises changing the image of the cover to greyscale or black and white and it will show whether everything looks good and if the title and author can be clearly seen. By the way did you mean to spell Chronicles ------Chronicals? chronical. having long duration, as of a disease: a chronical condition. Not to be confused with: chronicle – chronological record of events; recount, relate, report.
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Post by markcbrown on Mar 17, 2021 15:52:39 GMT
Here's the text in white. One with all white txt. One the vol. number black text.
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Post by markcbrown on Mar 17, 2021 15:54:05 GMT
I think they're fantastic. Thank you.
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Post by ronmiller on Mar 17, 2021 18:47:05 GMT
The text is nearly impossible to read at thumbnail size---which is important since that is the size at which most people will first see the books. Contrast is the least of the problems with the title. It is also unnecessarily overcomplicated. You have a Celtic style type face to which you have added a number of special effects. These are really gratuitous and add nothing to the overall effectiveness of the cover. Instead, they make an already ornate typeface more ornate...and harder to read. And you have substituted the O in Oval with an ornate necklace of some sort. This is another visual overcomplication that borders on cleverness for its own sake. This problem is repeated in the other two covers, with a sword replacing the T in Smith and a jewel the O in Stones. In short, the covers---especially the typography---need to be simplified.
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Post by ronmiller on Mar 17, 2021 18:57:52 GMT
I have already commented on volume 1. Volume 2 shares the same problem of overcomplication and cleverness for its own sake. But probably the thing going most against it is the figure. A back view of a figure in a black cloak is essentially just a dark hole in the middle of your cover. Since it conveys nothing about the character at all, it adds nothing to the cover. The sword replacing the T in Smith is not quite so distracting as the jewelry in Volume 1, but neither does it really add anything significant or meaningful. Volume 3 shares all the same problems as the others. In thumbnail size, the figure is a black silhouette without character or emotion. It is just a dark, uninformative shape. The title type tends to merge with the background. Of the three covers, the decorative substitutes for letters in the titles is least onerous in Volumes 2 and 3, but the Celtic typeface is still over-decorated with special effects. Perhaps you could simply and better place the necklace in Oval. All three covers are certainly competently done and the artwork is very nice...but they all need to be scaled back a little in all the fancy typographic flourishes . Architect Mies ven der Rohe's dictum, "Less is More" applies to book covers as well.
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Post by thunderguy on Mar 17, 2021 19:09:51 GMT
Love the way you incorporated iconic representation in the title! I hope you can make the author's name a bit clearer. Seems important!
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