12-16-2014, 07:40 PM
Hi Mike, thanks for the reply and the comments! I'll take your suggestions and develop it a bit more with the authors name and subtitle and focus and stuff. The background is a lens flare effect with various blur / colour burn layers (from an online tutorial) so connecting the figures with lines across the circle is certainly doable, I'll try that out and see how it looks.
I had the same feeling too that the background is kinda dramatic and looks more like a novel cover - the book is about drug / alcohol addiction, it's a true story of the author's life but written in a narrative way (she writes in third person and gives her character a different name, although I haven't actually read it!).
I spent about an hour in Illustrator formatting the text and got it looking really good but then it crashed on save and didn't have a recovery file - so kinda gutted and haven't worked on it since then.
I'll play around with it some more, maybe try and tone down the background a bit, less saturation / contrast, and overall brighter values maybe and will post back here when it's done.
I had the same feeling too that the background is kinda dramatic and looks more like a novel cover - the book is about drug / alcohol addiction, it's a true story of the author's life but written in a narrative way (she writes in third person and gives her character a different name, although I haven't actually read it!).
I spent about an hour in Illustrator formatting the text and got it looking really good but then it crashed on save and didn't have a recovery file - so kinda gutted and haven't worked on it since then.
I'll play around with it some more, maybe try and tone down the background a bit, less saturation / contrast, and overall brighter values maybe and will post back here when it's done.