Clients usually start out describing all their characters, a pivotal scene, a hundred details, the expressions on everybody’s faces and the way…
Read post →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…
Read post →Several months ago I was helping an author try to make a book cover. They had something very ugly, and I made…
Read post →I enjoyed this video about book cover design, as I’m starting to make my own videos. She mentions: 1. Contrasting colors 2.…
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You can do a lot of fun stuff with Photoshop. I wanted to show how genre distinctions in book cover design is…
Read post →Today I deleted some images out of my portfolio. I had over 300 cover samples, which make my site run slowly, so…
Read post →I get stressed and busy sometimes, but some nights (like tonight) my job rocks. I’m working on one cover, the author wants…
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When I started designing book covers a couple years ago, I remember looking at designers who were charging over $700 for a…
Read post →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…
Read post →A problem I often face with authors is paralysis of having too many options. 3 options to choose from is good. But…
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One cover can change everything. The next bestseller in your genre is going to have a great one — it might as well be yours.