Friday, March 22, 2013

2012 Banners Made from Book Covers

Comicbook banners aren't the only kind of banners I've been making. I also make banners for the Classic Science Fiction Message Board and I use the same ones on Facebook. These banners are usually pretty simple. When I first started making them I'd take four of my own books off the shelf and snap a picture of them. That's why on a lot of these you can see a tan border. That's the wall to wall carpet in my apartment! But eventually I grew out of using my own books and started to arrange images I'd find online.

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These are the first theme banners I did rather than author banners. as I run out of authors I'll probably start doing more and more of these theme banners.

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Just the other dad my dad gave me a bunch of Heinlein paperbacks with this style art. I've got to figure out if I have all of these covers now. Thanks Dad! 

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I've still have even more banners to share. When I get a chance I'll post all of the comedic banners I've made in the last year.

4 comments:

  1. Nice, John! Where do you usually find those covers? Or do you just do a general image search?

    I use this site when I'm writing a book review, but that's just modern covers of books sold at Amazon.com. It works well for my purposes, since I can just link to a single site for any illustrations I need. But that wouldn't work for you, I know.

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  2. Yeah, I just use Google image search and I filter my results to get the largest pictures I can.

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  3. I like seeing these banners bigger here than at the classic site.

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  4. It's too bad there are space limits on our site, but now that I have a special folder for them in Photobucket I could put the new banners in photbucket each week and link to them on the message board.

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