Stories with no End. Front Cover & Process

 In this post, I am going to pick image for my book's front cover. However, firstly, I want to search for few pictures which are related to my book genre. As my book is written in horror genre I looked at picture with terrifying atmosphere. In addition, I was thinking about composition of my cover. I was using Unsplash and Pixabay

I really like this photo below. Probably, I am going to use it. As I have one story connected to mirrors this picture is going to work. Also, I already have an idea how to place the text with this photo. I want to use black backgroung which I will pich in Photoshop. So, this picture will perfectly match with the plot and topic of my book. 



The second image has occult atmosphere. I wrote some dark story linked with occultism. However, I do not like this photo for horizontal orientation. I could place it below and write the text abobe, but it is not the thing I want as my final result. 


I quite like this photo as it shows some way without the end. It matches with the name of my book which is ''Stories with no End''. It shows some frightening uknown. This image immerse me in horror feelings with its dark colors and only one small lamp. However, I do not have any idea how and where place my text with this image. 



I decided to choose first photo for my front cover. So, now, I am going to edit this in Photoshop. First of all, I opened Photoshop- New File-Print. Then I choose A4 format in black color and vertical orientation which will be my background. 




My second step was to click File-Open. There I chose photo which I picked before. To put this photo on my background I clicked on Move tool, Select-All and Image-Copy. When I copied my picture I put it on my background by clicking on Image-Paste. 




The last thing I did was putting the headings. As I already decided to have central composition I place the name of my book ''Stories with no end'' and sub-heading ''Are you sure you want to read this?'' I chose Ink Free font as it seems as handwritten. It does not even look like a written text, it seems as scratched. I used contrast between white and red. White looks like purity and red as blood. 




Please, look at my final front cover. 






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