Elusive: An International Thriller Book Cover Design

Tonight I’m working on an update/makeover for Sara Rosett’s International Thriller “Elusive”.

Here is the original cover.

Some things I don’t like about it: the original background image (street) has no styling, same with the gun/money. I would have run a filtered action once I put them both together to make the colors more cohesive and a little more dark and mysterious. Doesn’t look like a thriller book cover to me.

Not loving the Red text ( a little hard to read). The title is transparent, and has a white stroke and a black stroke/drop shadow… there’s too much going on.

Here are some of my samples:

 

Romanov Stone: An International Thriller Book Cover

Another recent book cover I’ve been working on is “The Romanov Stone”. We needed a color-changing glowing alexandrite gem with a Romanov Seal on it; plus  Cyrillic text. These are a few of the options I came up with:

 

But simplicity may work better, so I also suggested something more like this:

 

Whichever design ends up on the book’s cover, be sure to check it out, sounds like an intriguing thriller.