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Post by ronmiller on Sept 1, 2020 15:56:40 GMT
Thanks Ron, I tried all my covers with the grey scale test. I do think this is a useful thing to do. Also Ron was kind enough to make a few alterations which he sent to me. ( He made my illustration larger and used a contrasting colour (yellow) for the text). The cover is definitely better. Your painting was so very nice it seemed a shame to not show it off better!
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 3, 2020 0:32:09 GMT
Well I have to be honest, but in B&W the yellow text looks far better white. BTW, greyscale is not the same as B&W do note. I am not sure if it is supposed to be there, but there are a lot of random dark green pixels around the text. To do with the res of the image as shown in this forum maybe? There's also two very faint lines across the cover behind the name. If you want to see something strange view it as a negative.
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Post by See-Ya - NLI on Sept 3, 2020 20:24:38 GMT
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 3, 2020 23:06:54 GMT
B&W is usually exactly that. Shades of grey are usually created by having more white between dots of black. The eye/brain merges them in to a shades of grey illusion. Greyscale uses actual many shades of grey from almost white up to black. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale
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Post by Ron on Sept 4, 2020 10:47:36 GMT
Well I have to be honest, but in B&W the yellow text looks far better white. BTW, greyscale is not the same as B&W do note. I am not sure if it is supposed to be there, but there are a lot of random dark green pixels around the text. To do with the res of the image as shown in this forum maybe? There's also two very faint lines across the cover behind the name. If you want to see something strange view it as a negative. You are right. The pixelation was the result of having only a thumbnail image to work with when cutting and pasting together the sample, which was meant only to be a guide for Larika.
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 4, 2020 14:55:46 GMT
Got my internet back for a little while (it's been out for days, which is why I had to post as a guest---I couldn't remember my password)...
The blog was updated today. The last post was a practice assignment!
Sorry if my interchangeable use of "B&W" and "grayscale" confused anyone. The term "B&W" is certainly not limited to things that are literally only black and white, like zebras. Black and white photography is what, well, black and white photography has always been called and I am pretty sure no one ever attended a screening of "Casablanca" because they wanted to see a classic grayscale movie.
There is a difference between grayscale and desaturation, though, both of which can be applied in Photoshop. The former is what you might see if you were to watch, say, "Gone With the Wind" on an old B&W television. A desaturated image, on the other hand, might resemble a black and white one but in reality all of the color information is still there, just toned down in value. It's more or less like the difference between seeing a color picture by sunlight and seeing it later by moonlight. Placed side by side, an image converted to grayscale will look different from the same image desaturated.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 5, 2020 0:22:28 GMT
Ah, I also have that problem, so I often opt for auto-log in, but that's also the reason I never allow any site to keep my card details. One problem with using auto-log in though, is if suddenly forgets a password, usually so have I!
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 5, 2020 0:34:34 GMT
There's often a major difference between a printed image and one seen in film, be it on a TV, monitor or movie screen. As an example, a colour LED TV creates shades of colour and grey (being a colour!) by varying the degree of light. That's always been the way with such images. My PSP art app boasts there can be millions of colours, but in reality there's still only RGB and the shades are created by saturation variance that monitors are capable of. Thankfully, modern bubblejet and laser printers can print such colours, but by also varying the ink saturation. At one time (and some POD machines still do) an image was created just by 3 to 8 overlays of single colour/s.
Oh, you know those gigantic screens often used at festivals and what not? Get too close and all you will see are tiny little LED bulbs with RGB lights inside them, literally.
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 11, 2020 13:45:11 GMT
The latest posts in the blog have been a mini-history of book cover design. The most recent entry takes us up to the end of the 1930s...
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 14, 2020 17:33:48 GMT
The latest blog posts take us up through the 1940s...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 3:25:59 GMT
Well done Ron. What a lot of hard work you have put into your blog.
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 15, 2020 11:44:45 GMT
Well done Ron. What a lot of hard work you have put into your blog. Thanks! Up to 69 posts as of this morning! The most recent took a break from the history of book cover design to display a few new book covers I've run across that I like. I will get back today or tomorrow to the history posts with a discussion about books and artists of the 60s.
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 17, 2020 15:27:41 GMT
72 posts now in the blog. Pretty much covered the history of book cover design other than a brief look at the 80s-90s which will be coming up.
There have also been two practice assignments if anyone wants to try their hand at working up a book cover for practice.
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Post by ronmiller on Sept 23, 2020 12:56:04 GMT
The latest posts chat a little about branding and a little more about history. And with Hallowe'en only a little over a month away, there are some samples of good horror novel covers.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Sept 23, 2020 13:48:27 GMT
The cover for Don't Scream is wonderful! It grabs me by the hairs of the back of my neck.
BTW, the spread of Gene Szafran covers for some of Heinlein's works brings back memories. I spent a lot of lawn-mowing money on those back in the day.
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