Dreamstime

Photographer as Designer

posted on 26th of april, 2012

>Besides photography I am a writer so with the advent of self publishing through Amazon I decided to put out some novels and short stories. The process is very much "do it yourself" from typing, to layout, to cover design. So I have taken on the role of designer for the books and it has been fun to look at photographs for cover illustration from a different point of view. The first book I did was fairly easy since I knew where I wanted the cover photo to be from and I kew it when I saw it. Short stories are a little harder bacause the cover art could go a lot of different directions. The there is the problem of finding a photo that has the elements in the right place for a title, isn't too busy, has the color I want for the fonts etc.
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Comments (8)

	Posted by Karenfoleyphotography on April 28, 2012 Would love to hear more about the creative process you go through in picking out a photo for your work .... any tips you can give us as to the "eye" we should be keeping would be most helpful! Thanks for sharing and good luck with your written (and visual) projects! K-
	Posted by Sobek85 on April 28, 2012 great
	Posted by Mlhead on April 27, 2012 I learned something else yesterday--carefully look at the DPI and size before you download something. Downloaded the wrong size twice!