Post by ⸗April⸗ on Dec 7, 2015 21:25:25 GMT -5
So I'm new to this area of design and wanted to experiment with the concept of creating a book cover.
This is what I would imagine the book cover would look like for my book, if it ever got published (been working on it for the past 10+ years, off and on). The text is all authentic, nothing made up for the purpose of an example. I just wanted to see if I could get some opinions from you guys because I have never designed a book cover before and I'm not gonna lie, there were several previous [failed] attempts:
Here's what I did... I took a photo that I'd taken out at Lake Erie in Pennsylvania around 2½ years ago on a trip to visit my dad, and the figure in the photo is actually my boyfriend's daughter, tweaked to look like a silhouette. Then I added the text.
What do you all think? Does it look "professional" or is it still a bit amateur-ish? If you saw this in a bookstore, would it be enough to make you want to pick it up and read it? (Be honest, it won't hurt my feelings)
This is what I would imagine the book cover would look like for my book, if it ever got published (been working on it for the past 10+ years, off and on). The text is all authentic, nothing made up for the purpose of an example. I just wanted to see if I could get some opinions from you guys because I have never designed a book cover before and I'm not gonna lie, there were several previous [failed] attempts:
Here's what I did... I took a photo that I'd taken out at Lake Erie in Pennsylvania around 2½ years ago on a trip to visit my dad, and the figure in the photo is actually my boyfriend's daughter, tweaked to look like a silhouette. Then I added the text.
What do you all think? Does it look "professional" or is it still a bit amateur-ish? If you saw this in a bookstore, would it be enough to make you want to pick it up and read it? (Be honest, it won't hurt my feelings)
I should have done that for the Halloween contest story, now that I think of it! 
it's a biography about my adventures through renal failure, from diagnosis, through treatment, to transplant.
