I make LGBTQ historical romance book covers. Yet, I often see the implication that creating F/F or M/M historical covers is impossible unless you’re getting a custom photo shoot, due to lack of stock photos. While I acknowledge it’s a challenge (especially
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I’m a book cover designer who works largely with self published fantasy novels. These days, most of my covers use a combination of stock photos and 3D models posed in DAZ Studios. For the example piece, I’m going to be using “Legend
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As a book cover designer, I see some common mistakes both from authors’ DIYing and designers new to book covers. And even for authors who aren’t DIYing, it’s important that they have some basic information so they can evaluate potential covers and
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I’m going to go over all of the pre-Photoshop work that goes into designing a book cover! I’m currently offering a discounted custom cover package called “I’ve already done the legwork” where the the client does all of the pre-Photoshop work themself.
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One of the greatest challenges of photo manipulated covers is that they rely on stock photography. Rather infamously, stock photography has a serious diversity problem, and it can be challenging or sometimes impossible to find a model that matches your protagonist. Adding
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