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Originally Posted by MiniMouse
Try and let me know if it worked, if it is easy enough and what you think.
And one last question, you like the textures with a book margin like the covers in this post or without? Let me know.
I presume you mean the stripe on the left edge - I think I would prefer no stripe.
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Hi
MiniMouse - OK. I had no trouble at all following your instructions to bake a few less boring covers.
For the first cover, in the Layer 1 step I happened to choose a picture that was 1100px wide x 1630 px high. the result was that I had reasonable size borders - bit bigger than I would of preferred but...
However, for the second cover, in the Layer 1 step I happened to choose a picture whose size was 2592x3888, now I had no borders. But I was able to resize the picture by dragging the blue dots with the shift key so that it was contained within the background, then I could drag that small image to the centre and resize it again, this resulted in excessive loss of image quality, jagged edges, blur etc.
I could resize the foreground images first, I have Faststone's right click gadget, but it would be 'nicer' if I could resize the foreground image by a percentage and not have to save it before repositioning it.
I saw 'something' that said I could do this layering with MS Paint - I might have a go at that tomorrow, using your backgrounds - to add a bit of spice I'll grab the kaleidoscope series.
Meantime I have to figure what to do with the three components that go into baking a cover onto which Generate can scribble the title and author - the background image, the foreground image and the composite image. I'm thinking I might put them in a RAR with a filler and drop them onto the book. Then I'll know where they are if I want to change or reuse something - or maybe I will make a library of them
I'll let you know how I get along with Paint - PIXLR was very sluggish, probably because the servers are a long way from where I am
BR