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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
Regarding the more modern covers...
While I generally agree that they are less suitable for use, they are not unsuitable either. They would, for instance, make great personal journal covers. Finding an appropriate title for the design would be the biggest problem.
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Thanks for your long and detailed reply!
Yes, I hope the modern covers find their users too. My idea was, that mybe they would be great for lets say SciFi books or something (or even personal journals like you suggested). But I get it, it probably would be better to add a one colored place where people can put the title and author in.
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The first image, with the blue bubbles, could be used for an undersea adventure.However, it might still be possible to use the modern images as an intermediary layer instead of the finished cover. For instance they might make decent texture patterns for leather and linen covers.
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Okay, I think I didn't make that clear enough (I edit my post allready). The blue bubbles and the black one with the red, yellow and blue bubbles are no covers!!!!
They are only up to show you from where I started to greate the covers. Picture 1 was the base layer for picture 2 (Kaleidoscope Cover 6) and picture 3 the base layer for picture 4 (Kaleidoscope Cover 7)!
Like in my post from
here where the first 4 pictures are only there to show from where I started, the in between stages and only from picture 5 the real covers start.
That's way only for these covers are zip-files up!
So I think I allready got to the texture part
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Linen Cover 9 kind of captures a bit of the color-on-color idea, although the two colors should be much closer in shade.
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I would have liked the yellow cover to have come out more with a golden ornament on it but it seems that I can't do that with PIXLR. So it became more a color-on-color style. Though I have to try that again because I would love it when it would look more the way I intended it to be.
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A monochromatic color scheme tends to make busy or detailed designs fade away. That is why Linen Cover 10, which would normally be considered too complex for a cover, seems to work. The range of brown colors used are relatively close together. Only the background color is substantially different. When paired with an appropriate story -- maybe something in an arctic setting, since the design is something like pine needles -- the cover's use becomes subtly more appropriate.
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Arctic setting is not what I had in mind with this cover, but okay.
I like this cover. I think the brown colors are perfectly melting together. Hope you find a story to use it for and this time I left space for text!
Any wishes, then let me know.
MiniMouse