Textures for book covers using Canva

Описание: Two different book covers ... same image.
Today we're looking at how we can add textures to images so that they make more interesting book covers. I’ve taken one image and made two different covers, which address two different genres. A long time ago, you could just take an image, slap some text over it and upload it to the Kindle store and get sales. Nowadays, your cover has to work a lot harder. It needs to signal to the reader EXACTLY what genre it’s in, so that they know if they’re interested enough to read the blurb. That’s a lot of pressure for a little thumbnail image…

One of the ways you can differentiate genre is by using the cover conventions of that genre. For some genres it’s pretty clear - pink swirly stuff and flowers (cosy romance or women’s fiction), blood splatters (crime), a teapot or something cute with a blood splatter (cosy crime). For other genres, it’s more about the texture and image. Those are the sort of thing we’re looking at today.

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