Covers - The Incomparable Decorum

I've been making comic covers for my main, Decorum (Victory server; Science Inv/EM Tanker; Legion of Valor member).

Critique away!

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#4

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#7

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Looking good, though I really recommend that you have someone else take the screenshots for you. All your shots look like you rotated the camera around on you. Which isn't bad, but you can really get some dynamic shots if you have someone else snapping for you.

LMAO He looks WAY too happy to be in those sewers! XD

Really cute covers though.

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Looking good, though I really recommend that you have someone else take the screenshots for you. All your shots look like you rotated the camera around on you. Which isn't bad, but you can really get some dynamic shots if you have someone else snapping for you.

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I certainly agree in principal. However, every time I've ever had anyone else take pictures in RL, I'm somewhat disappointed by their "artistic eye" (or lack thereof). I fear the same might go here. I am, however, learning as I go using demorecord/dump, so I'm getting a better choice of shots than before.

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LMAO He looks WAY too happy to be in those sewers! XD

Really cute covers though.

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Ha! Thanks, and yeah, I agree. I never really did get the effect I was looking for. They were supposed to look like they were sneaking up on him. But, yeah, that grin face is great for a "portrait", but there's some things it really doesn't work for. For an upcoming cover, I actually went to test and changed his face to a more suitable "expression" for such occasions.

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All righty then. I really liked all of them, but especially #7 RAVE.
BTW what program are you using for the cover format. In other words how can I do this too?

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All righty then. I really liked all of them, but especially #7 RAVE.

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Thankee! I kinda think that one has some good POP myself.

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BTW what program are you using for the cover format. In other words how can I do this too?

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Somewhat hand-made. I use Paint Shop Pro for my graphics, although most use Adobe Photoshop (never cared for it...counterintuitive controls, at least the old version I tested out). The logo I made from scratch. Most of the trade dress I got from downloading an old Marvel cover, deleting everything but the trade dress and blanking some of the parts out (basically just used them for placement) and then rebuilt "by hand".

Did that with #4 for the whole thing, as that cover is an homage to Avengers Vol. 1, #16.

Avengers #16, for comparison

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Then I am even more impressed.