Here's my first real draft of a cover for Baby Briana. Comments & crits welcome. :)
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You are amazing! <3 <3 <3
I still need to figure out one more book title, and I need to pick images for Melody and Briana for book 3. I have book 2's images already purchased from shutterstock.
Let me get that figured out and I'll email you the images to your patreon account email, if that works for you.
This is such a huge help, you have no idea. :)
2022-05-16 22:47:56 +0000 UTC
Sure, I would be happy to make all 3 covers - this is my fave series, so Iβd be honored π I got the block alphabet via adobe stock photos, but I changed the color scheme from the original set.
Iβll double check on the adobe stock licensing - I believe it should be fine for epub. Might need a different license for print though if you want to do that. Iβll look up the specific license in the file I used.
The background image (really just the furniture at the top of the image) was from shutterstock via their standard license, which does cover epublishing:
https://support.shutterstock.com/s/article/Standard-License-vs-Enhanced-License?language=en_US
Iβll get the licenses together and send them with the PSD and PNG. Iβll also snag something off legal zoom to give you explicit and unrestricted rights to the covers I create.
If you send me the photo of the person(s) you want on the other two covers (along with the copy-text), I can do them all together. Itβll be easier to enforce consistency if I can adjust all of them at once to keep them in line (and itβll be faster for me to just knock them out vs coming back and having to remember what I did, lol).
I just used free trials for both stock photo libraries, so doing them all now means I can grab all the images while I still have that free trial ;-) The trial includes 10 standard licensed images.
2022-05-16 22:42:38 +0000 UTC
This is fantastic! I would like to use it, and can provide you with the original stock image that I used for Briana.
A couple of questions: What's the copyright status of the image(s) in the background?
Would you be at all interested in making 3 covers with slight changes to them? I want to have all 3 books have very similar covers.
If not, which is totally reasonable, could you provide me with the raw psd file so that I could use it to create additional covers?
Thanks for doing this. Your "slapped together" and "crude" image is better than my hours of work. :)
2022-05-16 22:24:41 +0000 UTC
What about something like this?
https://salem-graphics.s3.amazonaws.com/BBCoverPastel-Salem.png
I just slapped it together, so it's a little crude, but I can clean it up or make adjustments if you're interested (and if you can provide the original image of Briana).
And an alternative layout with ardenthill and your name swapped:
https://salem-graphics.s3.amazonaws.com/BBCoverPastel-Salem-Alt.png