In talking to my older daughter yesterday she mentioned that perhaps I’m an author with several notable worstsellers because my self designed book covers are not that good. She has a point. A part of me wanted professional help with it and then the artistic side of me kicked in at the time and said “Hey I can do this myself!” Looking back, the covers I did design were all over the board. I knew I wanted to use my personal photographs on anything in the autobiographical series. Beyond that though I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing.
So I went digging on my facebook treasure trove of photos to see what else I could use for the book series. I found a few oldie but still funny memes and some trips down memory lane. In the meantime I also pulled a few pictures off of my phone from recent times.
For those who don’t know, substack now has an AI image generator.
I decided to play with this feature. It seemed to me in the photo setting either the woman or her dog always looked a little off
Like, what is going on here?
Anyways I was able to come up with a decent first try on a new book cover for Travels With Nemo on Adobe Express. I’m going to stick to my personal photos and artwork for now thanks!
This one I don’t think is too bad for a first blush on an as of yet not published entirely book in the series:
So on to the memes and more. Ahh in the time of Gemini:
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