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Old 02-13-2015, 01:06 PM   #211
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Hello!

I have recently started keeping fanfic library and wanted to generate some nice covers, so I made myself some textures with ordinary GIMP tools and retouched promo (and similar ) content and am mixing them.

Would it be okay to post some of those here? What I mean would someone want them?
Textures are usually without borders/book_edge and I like more 'vivid' colours/contrast- y pictures?

I'm adding some type of textures I made.
Please comment & criticize.

If somebody is interested in the non-generic fanfic covers I made here is few examples.
Of course you can post them here, I'm very happy when people participate

It is good to have other styles out here, so everyone can find something they like!

And I think they are wonderful backgrounds
I especially like 02 and coolbg3 the most. I will probably use them as a background to put another picture in the front.

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Old 02-13-2015, 01:31 PM   #212
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I especially like 02 and coolbg3 the most. I will probably use them as a background to put another picture in the front.

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Use away, I'm glad someone likes them. As I usually try different colorings and filters I have many alternative to basically the same background, so if you want I have another variant of 02.

And now with your permission I will upload another ones later
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Old 02-14-2015, 01:48 AM   #213
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What font's are you using on these covers?
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Old 02-14-2015, 08:09 PM   #214
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It really depends on the image and the feel I have from the cover or a book - for example if it looks scary I will use scary-looking font.

I wasn't satisfied with fonts pre-installed in my system so I downloaded some from dafont.com and 1001freefonts.com.

I like to tinker with my covers so it's not "Check all" -> "Generate Cover" type of work but a moment with adjusting size of font or including newlines so that title doesn't start new line in a odd place (like after "a" or first word in a parenthesis)

Some examples:
  • Marked
  • Croquis
    • FreeSans (pre-installed)
    • Biko
  • Sandrine

But I'm sure it depends on your likings.
I will probably upload some template_settings once I go through what license do the fonts I use have.
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Old 02-15-2015, 04:25 AM   #215
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Some examples:
  • Marked
  • Croquis
    • FreeSans (pre-installed)
    • Biko
  • Sandrine

But I'm sure it depends on your likings.
I will probably upload some template_settings once I go through what license do the fonts I use have.

I like the 1942 report-font on your Sandrin cover. Grabbing now...

And the 'Marked' background is very cool, could you post only the background?

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Old 02-15-2015, 03:30 PM   #216
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I like the 1942 report-font on your Sandrin cover. Grabbing now...

And the 'Marked' background is very cool, could you post only the background?

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Of course I could
Ahh yes, it was the first font I downloaded. I like it very much too.
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Old 04-07-2015, 01:24 AM   #217
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So I promised some covers and never uploaded them ... so this is at least some of them (some of them are even tame!!!

There is one big zip with all displayed covers, because I am lazy to zip every cover seperately - if that's problem for you give me a note.

As always - if you have any commentary, advice, help etc. for covers I'm all ears and if you like then
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Old 05-15-2015, 08:44 PM   #218
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Hi,

I actually like those generic covers that are on public domain books on Amazon, the ones with the yellowish top and a different color on the bottom. Does anyone know where I can download blank versions of those?
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Old 05-16-2015, 04:17 PM   #219
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Just remove the text, select the top or bottom part in an image editor, and play with the Hue/Saturation/Lightness controls

Here you go, I've made you a few to start with (in this posts attachment)
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Hi again ,

I've made some more textures/backgrounds with 1537px x 2048px resolution.
There are a lot of them, so I'm only uploading indexprint - so please contact me if you would like some of them, it's also easy to change colors, brightness etc.

I love fiddling with them, so don't be shy .

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Hi again ,

I've made some more textures/backgrounds with 1537px x 2048px resolution.
There are a lot of them, so I'm only uploading indexprint - so please contact me if you would like some of them, it's also easy to change colors, brightness etc.

I love fiddling with them, so don't be shy .

Hi sam007, thanks for sharing your work
I like 2ad and 2ac the most. I like how the colours melt together

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I like 2ad and 2ac the most. I like how the colours melt together

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Some styalized book covers

I thought I'd share the images that I made using one of the basic leather images. I found free silhouette images over at pixabay and combined them with the leather background. Mystery, SF, Horror and Pulp (like westerns) are all represented by the images.
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