typography
It's a tricky subject, involving swashes and serifs and display fonts and text fonts and decorative fonts, and of course, fonts that are absolutely perfect for your book cover, but have to be licensed, and have to be readable at 10 feet for a real book, and at 72x112px for a thumbnail and so on and so on . . .
I am awash in details.
At least one thing has fallen into place--I've discovered the Paint.NET forums, and the *brilliant* people who lurk there. Paint.NET is an open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop--I don't know how it compares for serious graphic design work, but pdn gurus have figured out to do fantastic text effects. So I've been using their tips with free display fonts such as Trajan regular and getting some sharp results.
I am awash in details.
At least one thing has fallen into place--I've discovered the Paint.NET forums, and the *brilliant* people who lurk there. Paint.NET is an open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop--I don't know how it compares for serious graphic design work, but pdn gurus have figured out to do fantastic text effects. So I've been using their tips with free display fonts such as Trajan regular and getting some sharp results.