Triumvirate Cover, Second Try

[jeriendhal]

I like this much better. I just need to figure out if I want to leave my name down where it is or move it up underneath the title.

Many thanks to ankewehner for pointing me in the directions of the stock desert photo and the triskelion image, and thanks to aldersprig for suggesting I give GIMP a try.

Comments

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I like it, and the name works where it is.

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I really like that.

[drakemagi.livejournal.com]

Ok, I do like this one better. :)

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Better. :)

I think the author name is good where it is - if you put it below the title on the sky, the top would be too crowded and you'd have too much empty space at the bottom, if you put it at the top on the sand you'd have to move the triskele down too much...

To consider: The title is not readable at thumbnail size (I test with an image height of 100 pixels; IIRC Smashwords resizes to a width of 72 or height of 110, whatever is smaller.) So I'd try a taller font that doesn't get so extremely thin in places.
Same goes for the author name.

I'd also try to use white font with a thin black outline.

Unrelated, the triskele seems a bit too heavy... I'd experiment a bit: see what it looks like at different transparencies, or as outlines (IIRC GIMP has a "stroke selection" function which should work there together with the magic wand, if nothing else), or combine black outlines with a transparent white triskele, or something.

I did like the other triskele better. If you switched because of the colour... Changing the saturation to 0 should give you a dark grey, for instance. Or it should be possible to lock the transparet pixels of the layer and use bucket fill and/or brush to colour it as you want.

uh. yeah, rambling. ^^°