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Is there any way I can get a cover designed when I already have an idea in mind of what I want?
I've looked at various sites and not found a bespoke service yet.
Cost is an issue too, so I may have to compromise in the end, but I'd like to find out.
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Here's a company who do it - I don't know anything about them, just Googled.
http://bespokebookcovers.com
A mood board in a way- you can create one on Pinterest for just you and the cover designer.
It helps that I'm a graphic designer by day and stalled novelist by night!
Wafflicious.
Anyway, this is the mock-up I quickly designed a while back whilst stalled with writing the words that will go in it! One day this, or something akin to it, may sit on a bookshelf inI a bookstore somewhere.
What are those two solid blocks?
The images are simply demo versions of the ones I would purchase and use, the sample pics have "iStock" stamped all over them.
It was easy to block them out on the bottom image but not so on the top one (eyes). Hence, you can still see the copyright on the top one.
When the story is written, I will buy the pics and finish it off. Unless a publisher has snapped it up in the meantime and their art department is on the case!
I'm considering designing my own for the next book -
or at least a mockup to stick on my wall.
I use Adobe InDesign (part of their Creative Suite) for this type of work. Very easy to layer it up and apply text etc onto the background images. I use Illustrator too when required, although my cover mock-up as all InDesign.