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Clients usually start out describing all their characters, a pivotal scene, a hundred details, the expressions on everybody’s faces and the way their bodies are posed. That won’t [...]

If you’re like me, you use Photoshop for graphic design. It’s better for blending layers and images. However there is some limitation with text – one common and frustrating [...]

Several months ago I was helping an author try to make a book cover. They had something very ugly, and I made something much better. I was working mostly for free (something I’m trying to [...]

I enjoyed this video about book cover design, as I’m starting to make my own videos. She mentions: 1. Contrasting colors 2. One color scheme 3. Matching sets (for series) And some other [...]

You can do a lot of fun stuff with Photoshop. I wanted to show how genre distinctions in book cover design is mostly about fonts and color, and maybe some text overlays. So I took a couple pretty [...]

Today I deleted some images out of my portfolio. I had over 300 cover samples, which make my site run slowly, so I wanted to get it down to around 200. Choosing which images not to display was [...]

I get stressed and busy sometimes, but some nights (like tonight) my job rocks. I’m working on one cover, the author wants a sketch of pre-1757 London in black and white, with a color photo [...]

When I started designing book covers a couple years ago, I remember looking at designers who were charging over $700 for a print cover and thinking they were charging way too much money. How [...]

I’ve been working on Brian Smith’s thriller “Purified” for a couple of months. Like most challenging projects, we reached a few dead-ends before pushing through and [...]

A problem I often face with authors is paralysis of having too many options. 3 options to choose from is good. But I usually make at least 10 samples, in each round. So we are always selecting [...]