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Post by deborahinwi on Aug 11, 2020 15:13:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 15:41:18 GMT
Deborahhinwi I checked out your very interesting book. Just 2 points. Ron Miller pointed out to me when I posted my book that I'd accidentally left off the apostrophe from my title. I think you have left it off " Oscar's Trees".Also I can hardly see your name and your title doesn't show too clearly either. Maybe another colour would show up better. However congratulations in posting your book. I hope your poetry book is coming along.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 12, 2020 0:21:03 GMT
What a shame there are no Previews any more. Although when it arrives at Amazon they will create one. I do wonder in what way you have made it suitable for the over twos. And yes, you need an apostrophe and white on yellow does not work at all, and it helps even less that the text is so small and your name is a long way from the title when you have all that space. It's also a shame the top of the trees is chopped off.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 12, 2020 0:23:10 GMT
Regardless of how me and Ron argue about how important covers are nowadays, it still has to be readable, and 'tidy'.
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Post by deborahinwi on Aug 12, 2020 7:04:16 GMT
ok I played around a bit with the cover, what do you think of this? Maybe the black doesn't match?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 10:23:26 GMT
deborahinwi I really like the fact that you can see the top of the trees and your name and the title are now visible if rather small. I think what I would have done was make the trees a bit smaller and I'd put the title at the top (larger size) and your name (slightly smaller) under it. I'd use the same brown as the tree trunk for the title and author PS You have misspelled awful.
I agree with Kevin and I hope Ron comments as well because he makes some superb covers.
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Post by deborahinwi on Aug 12, 2020 17:57:58 GMT
LOL, ok. Guess i'm going for a total re-do. How is my spelling so aweful?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 12, 2020 18:04:54 GMT
"ok I played around a bit with the cover, what do you think of this? Maybe the black doesn't match"
There's no reason the title cannot go right across the leaves, as long as it's in a colour contrasting to green and yellow, but black would do. BTW. Why is the sky yellow? Your name could go across the grey (what does that represent? Should it not be yellow as in sand?)
And all the text much larger!
What program are you using to create the art? Or to at least add the text?
When designing covers I do art specifically for that particular cover, so always allowing space for the text. The art may be eye-catching, but the text is perhaps more important.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 12, 2020 18:10:06 GMT
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Post by deborahinwi on Aug 12, 2020 22:10:44 GMT
ok, played around for awhile. Deleted a couple i hated. This is what i came up with.
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Post by benziger on Aug 12, 2020 23:01:31 GMT
I am not a graphic artist and the pictures below are 3 minutes drafts. But sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. - I have taken over from the previous speakers: writing in the colour of the tree trunks (left). But brown on grey looks ugly to me. So I took the green of the leaves. There's not enough contrast (middle). So I moved the title over the palm trees (right). Three attempts, not solutions.
- I have also thought about it:
- What's about? Oscar's Trees. So the trees have to be in the centre and I've enlarged them accordingly.
- What's the title for? It calls out the name of the book and the author to the buyer. So, write as big as you can cry.
The three pictures as drafts in which direction it could go. If you'll be patient until ronmiller gets back, he's our cover specialist. He has given us many tips and examples in the past months. For example here lulu.boards.net/post/492/thread you can see one of his designs and the final result. Between this two covers: many attempts, possibilities, steps, considerations (which we can only assume). Play with the colours. Play with the sizes. Put the designs next to each other. Recombine them. Maybe it's easier with paper: put individual pieces on top of each other, move them, exchange them?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 12, 2020 23:55:44 GMT
Well, no offence, but it seems to be forgotten that I also design covers.
Anyway, colour choice ignored for now, the very large text is a great improvement.
A cover should do its best to try to be a mini description of the story in picture form, and of course the title helps also, although usually I try to pick something specific from the story to depict, but that's easy for me because I have also written the story. I don't have to rely on a short description from some other writer, often forcing the creation of a partial generic cover.
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Post by deborahinwi on Aug 13, 2020 3:50:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 8:36:10 GMT
Well done deborahinwa, that is so much better. I see the tops of the trees and can read the title and your name clearly and I like your colours. GOOD LUCK
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 8:46:59 GMT
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