Doctor Who Book Binding Layer
Aug. 24th, 2019 01:29 amSo as mentioned in the earlier post, I have been making fic covers. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
