Tip 11: Creating a Collage of Cover Images
Sometimes you may to produce images which contain more than
one cover image as part of the same images. For example, you
might be creating an illustration to represent a collection
of eBooks.
In this case, what you need to do is use CoverFactory to
to create each of the individual covers separately. Then use
your
painting program
to copy and paste them together to make the final collage.
Here are some tips for best results:
- Plan out your work ahead of time. It helps to have a little
sketch (it can be crude) of what you're eventually working towards.
- It's usually easier to make different covers look like they are
meant to go together, if you avoid shadows and reflections, and
keep the covers in roughly similar orientations.
(If you're a Michaelangelo of the computer graphics world, please
feel free to ignore this tip!)
- When creating each of the covers, use a plain solid color
background. This way, you won't have to worry about creating
seams between the different images in the collage.
- Provided you have access to good quality
painting program
with anti-aliased scaling, it's a good idea to create each of the individual
covers quite large, the overall collage quite large, and then scale the
whole collage down
only after the final collage is assembled.
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