More fic covers

[lolmac]

My latest obsession . . . fortunately, it can only continue till I run out of stories.  Not being jackwabbit, this won't actually take too long.

I took my first shot at Aftershocks last night.  The result is waaay too cluttered to use on ff.net, and probably too busy to use period.  But I really like the frenetic energy I ended up with . . . it actually suits

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[lothithil]

I really like what you've done for 'Aftershocks'. Really alot!!

and 'Boyscout' & 'Walking on Air' are simply beautiful.

[lolmac]

*G* Thank you! I have a couple of ideas for "Rainmakers" already, too. Do you have any particular preference as to which of yours I start with? And any thoughts of the kind of images you'll want?

(Why, yes, I'm making an assumption here, that you'll want covers and be okay with me doing them.) ;-)

[lothithil]

I am delighted that you are willing to, and that you are having so much fun. I'll toss around some ideas with you next time we chat.

Rainmakers - I love the screencap you use for 'I can has Chocolate' maybe we can use? :D

[lolmac]

We can use! Although I'd actually thought of using one from the same scene as yoru current icon -- in the metallurgy lab. He looks so nicely soggy and rain-bedraggled by then.

[justice_turtle]

Actually I really like the Aftershocks cover at that size, though I can see that making it any smaller might be a problem. It's busy enough to look like... a book cover as opposed to a CD cover, if that makes any sense... and clear enough to be "legible".

ETA: the CD cover reference being because "Walking on Air" really, really looks like one. Not that that's a bad thing; I love it. *always prejudiced in favor of blue skies* ;-)

[lolmac]

You're right about the 'CD cover' look -- I hadn't thought of that!

On ff.net itself, the images get shrunk waaay down. I found out with the first one just how much detail disappears. But it's so much more fun doing the larger-scale images . . . I'll probably continue to do a large image base, and then simplify it down from there, at least for the major items. The CD cover look makes sense for the ficlets and such.

[thothmes]

Well, clearly you have been having too much fun and too little sleep! ;)

I really like the Aftershocks cover, although I definitely understand how that would be just so much visual confusion in the smaller size. People wouldn't "get the joke".

[lolmac]

But . . . but . . . I got to bed at a more or less reasonable time last night! Really!!

The part of my brain that's mostly running this show is obviously working from the aesthetics of the typical paperback novel. I'll probably continue to do "paperback cover art" and then use those as the basis for simpler, cleaner, scaled-down images.

[thothmes]

Actually, I figured that you probably didn't take too long over the simpler designs, although they are clean and nice, and very suited to their purpose. They look nice, but they also don't look like they were incredible timesinks to produce. I just couldn't resist the teasing. :)

[idlewild_]

These are awesome!

I have not yet decided whether I'll be doing any cover art. I'm sort of drifting right now since my fan writing is all over the place in terms of fandoms, and I'm not sure that it's somewhere I can put the energy.

[damigella_314]

I'm curious what program(s) you used to make those covers, the Aftershocks one looks like a real book.

[lolmac]

looks like a real book -- well, that's the idea! *g* The only thing I'm not doing (yet) is cramming my name in there
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I use Photoshop, the same program that I use for the LOLMacs. It's an older version (v.6), but it works fine for me.