SPN: Cover for In the Company of Demons, by stele3

[phantomas]

First of all, let me say, THANK YOU for your support. I need to keep up my dad, you all keep me up.
Thank you.
Thank you.

It's now 4.33 am and I let out my anxiety by fooling around with Photoshop Elements.
Colors and shapes, words won't come by.

This cover/image/wallpaper, however you want to call it,  it's for the story In the Company of Demons, by stele3 - which is a dark DARK DARK story, and worth each moment you spend reading it. Because sex and violence, just like life and death, go together.

Very tiny version, to give you a tiny idea of what's behind the cut.
I could play with this sort of final version some more - there are several effect you could go for, but I limited myself, just tried variations on the text.




Faded text




Complex text




Heavy text

Comments

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Text is such a pivotal part of a cover, in so many ways - and again, there are so many possible and still working variations. I always make a few, it's rare that I find the one that makes me say 'yes, that's it'.

The third is quite dark in itself; I wanted a layer between the dark red/black decoration and the almost-white behind, and the dark blue (with the added shadow) gave me that, in therms of color and shape. It is dark, but anything lighter didn't seem to work (at least for me) unless, like in the second example, it wasn't something clearly graphic in style.

thank you :)