Catproof
Here's Puff Man posing with the proof copy of The Starving Years paperback that just came in the mail. I'm unhappy with the way the red color-shifted between RGB and CMYK colorspaces so I'll need to play with that. There is no red ink in 4-color process printing, it's made up of magenta and yellow. So that shift is to be expected.
Here I thought my big issue would be with the blacks. You need to be careful with oversaturating your cover with ink, so I broke up big fields of black by ghosting in another image that wraps around the back.
I love that one-eye-open thing Puffy does :D
Also, this is a honking big book.
Here I thought my big issue would be with the blacks. You need to be careful with oversaturating your cover with ink, so I broke up big fields of black by ghosting in another image that wraps around the back.
I love that one-eye-open thing Puffy does :D
Also, this is a honking big book.
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Surprising, the book was there first and Puffy plonked down next to it. He always needs to be involved in whatever I'm doing.On my computer, I found another shot of Nelson I'd forgotten about for the back. It was an original cover concept that I'd begun and abandoned so that all three POV characters could share the front cover.
I'm usually not too partial to orange, but it looks kind of fiery here. Makes me think of mayhem and ruin, almost apocalyptic.
The orange is a color of red that's "out of gamut" - in other words, it exists in the RGB colorspace like you'd see on a monitor but not the CMYK colorspace like you'd see in print. I needed to select an in-gamut red for the solid lettering then do some fancy adjustments to make the gore-letters match them. Hopefully it'll work.
You're right, it is a big honkin' book! but I do so like the cover. What is on the back that you wrapped around?