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by **wysmommy** » Jan Fri 18, 2019 9:35 am

For the stills - the pictures with the dark backgrounds are still a little dark. Other than that, update looks nice.

by **nichart** » Jan Fri 18, 2019 10:25 am

Thanks everybody. So, question about the "stills", and I'm at work at the moment, so can't show an example, but do you guys and gals think on the headshots strip it would work better to cut out the people and have them all on one prefabbed background within the windows?

Hopefully that made sense...

by **ctaulbee** » Jan Fri 18, 2019 11:44 am

wysmommy wrote:For the stills - the pictures with the dark backgrounds are still a little dark. Other than that, update looks nice. :D

Agreed I think a lot lighter overall, also and this is a just a point of preference for me.

I think the Phase one text should run top to bottom, we read left to right top to bottom, feels backwards to have it going up, kind of like when spine titles are upside down on European releases lol.

Moved the exposure on the heads just for and example adjusting them separate would yield better results.

by **nichart** » Jan Fri 18, 2019 11:23 pm

Like this? Did I go too far? Oh, and rotated the Phase 01 on the front per Ct's request.

by **wysmommy** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 12:46 am

nichart wrote:do you guys and gals think on the headshots strip it would work better to cut out the people and have them all on one prefabbed background within the windows?

If you mean cut out all the people from their original (assorted) backgrounds, and place them all onto the same background - it would be more work, but I think it would definitely look good.

by **ctaulbee** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 1:57 am

That's much better there, I agree with wys as well

One thing to consider though is if this is to be a repeated template, that would add substantial work to each cover, it's not bad in one off deals but having to cut-out several heads for each one would be a lot of additional time per cover.

Wys can tell you about that, she does a lot of those lol.

by **chouette** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 3:19 am

ctaulbee wrote:Wys can tell you about that, she does a lot of those lol. :D

And the question here is, do you have her patience? lol - Anyway, great updates! :-$

by **ctaulbee** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 5:41 am

chouette wrote:
ctaulbee wrote:Wys can tell you about that, she does a lot of those lol. :D

And the question here is, do you have her patience? lol

Not even close

by **wysmommy** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 4:34 pm

ctaulbee wrote:Wys can tell you about that, she does a lot of those lol. :D

Man, that is the truth!! lol.

Ct is right. If you are going to do a collection, it is a lot of extra work removing all of the backgrounds each time you do a new cover. That is why it takes me so long to do my comic book collection. There are times I actually regret that I chose to remove the backgrounds on the stills. Very time consuming. :-l

by **nichart** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 5:09 pm

wysmommy wrote:There are times I actually regret that I chose to remove the backgrounds on the stills. Very time consuming. :-l

So essentially you're saying "DON'T DO IT!!!" lol

by **wysmommy** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 5:54 pm

Not exactly. lol

I just wanted you to be aware that if you decide to go that route, it will be much more time consuming. It is up to you whether to remove the backgrounds, or not. Either way, your cover will look good!

by **nichart** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 8:16 pm

Well, I think this first one may be done... what do you guys think? Any last minute changes?

by **chouette** » Jan Sat 19, 2019 8:51 pm

It might just be me, but I don't particularly like 2 strips of images like you have in the back. But since I am no expert and if that's what you like, then I guess you're done.