Book cover advice

At Life the Universe and Everything symposium, there was a panel on book covers. Any inaccuracies or confusion, it is the fault of the note taker.

A book cover can misread your audience to pick up and read the title and the byline.
Remember that when someone sees your book cover online it’s usually about the size of a postage stamp.
Each John wrote has its own type of book cover as designated by the genre.
You cover will predetermine the evidence of the quality of your book.
An author’s name is not important. An accurate description of the plot an illustration of a great scene is important
The genre is conveyed by color scheme and fonts. Look at the role of books in the store of your genre and see how they are similar.
The following are reasons to reject the cover.
Be aware of art that should be on your refrigerator such as a poorly done art photo.
Stock photos often don’t meet the theme of the book.
Watch for bad font choice. It needs to be readable and match the theme of the book. X line boring covers three force of book is nothing but will state.
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Be careful of bulletin type layouts with his multiple pictures on the book like a grid.
Be careful of the central image and then a bunch of other images. You need something that the eye can attach to.
Don’t put copyright notice or artist credits on the cover.
Beware of cut-and-paste
Fonts lagging can misread and irritate the reader.
Be careful of things of in Photoshop.
Don’t use a copyright image. One book had the watermark on the cover
Don’t use a bad photograph
Beware of layering one image on top of the other some of which may mismatch
Be aware of layouts images that are not compatible with people. For example, don’t ever put text on the face.
Be careful of bad digital art.
Pixilation, a small image doesn’t expand well as influenced by number of pixels.
Avoid pseudo-humans. Like those that show up on a game
Check readability of title such as having curving titles
Avoid typos on the cover as was missing punctuation. Spacing and other obvious grammatical issues
Don’t try to create art of the words of your book