Doctor Who Book Binding Layer

[prixmium]

So as mentioned in the earlier post, I have been making fic covers. oldtoadwoman supplied me with a good layer to use for a certain old paperback book effect, but in looking at the Doctor Who novels of the S2 era, I realized that they didn't have a border and in fact the cover image sort of draped over a binding that ran a bit into it. I remember finding this very odd when I used to own some, actually. But to that end, here's the .png to what I ended up making to come up with the final image for my second-ever fic cover.



And here's the fic cover, though it's on the post immediately below this one, too. Because I need attention. (And we could say for example.)



Note: I've been using GIMP on this new computer, and the layer mode that I settled on for the added layer was "Grain Merge". If your image editor doesn't have that, Soft Light is always a favored stand-by that's available on most. This layer is already tweaked to transparency somewhat.

Comments

fic cover art

[oldtoadwoman]

Awesome!

And it's a totally addictive process, so I wouldn't be surprised if you can't stop making them now. :-)

Re: fic cover art

[prixmium]

It's great! But for some fandoms it is so hard to find images. Besides that fact that I'm slightly embarrassed by what teenage me considered tantalizing ship content, I'm skipping my Artemis Fowl stuff for that reason at least for now. The midst recent one I'm trying is SG1 and yikes is it hard.

Re: fic cover art

[oldtoadwoman]

Yeah, older shows are hard. I even had difficulty finding good images for Sherlock because that fandom hit peak popularity right when gifs were super trendy.

For a couple of my Dead Zone stories, I just used generic imagery.

Re: fic cover art

[prixmium]

Sometimes I have some luck looking specifically for the screencap galleries or typing in "promo pic" in google image search in addition to the rest of my search terms.