Project Blue Rose Cover

[telophase]

Not posted under SOOPER SEEKRIT FRIENDSLOCK because, hey! It's advertising!



ETA: The typo in Rachel's name is fixed in the real file.

Front cover as it should appear on the book:




Back cover as it should appear on the book:





This is the original layout:



This is the trimmed layout with the template on it - the live area where text can be placed is the area that doesn't have colored lines on it. :)



And trimmed, without the template:

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Will you hate me for pointing out the typo in Rachel's name?

*hopes this isn't the file that went to print*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It has not gone to print - I'm doing the layout now. This was posted primarily for Rachel to look at and proofread, and I made it non-filtered for the hell of it. :D

*goes to edit*

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I manage print projects for a living. I've had a lot of post-gone-to-print *headdesk* moments.

It looks lovely, by the way, which I should have mentioned in my first comment!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I printed a doujinshi that had the contributors listed on the back and managed to compeltely leave one off. Oops.

Thanks! I am mastering the rudiments of InDesign - the doujinshi from last year was all image files placed in, and this time I actually have a wee bit of text to design and lay out. Woo! I may get wacky and include a drop cap or something.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And I meant to say thanks for spotting the error. :D

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Wow. That looks really great! I only wish I could do something half that good. But what is Tyler, Texas barbeque?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks! Tyler, Texas barbeque is barbeque from Tyler, Texas. Nothing more. :)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Oh. That was rather self-explanitory then!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. :D We go for the obvious here at Camp Telophase.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Well, in my defense, I was thinking it was some kind of weird green-based barbeque sauce. (Like how there is chili and then green chili in the contests.) But I guess worring about having a vegetarian sauce to slather on a hunk of ribs is kind of pointless.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about that too :) Also yay, it's so pretty!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

*whistles* That's some gorgeous work!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[seajules]

WANT NOW.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's gotta go to the printer's first! :D You have to be a wee bit more patient! :D

[seajules]

Patients are for doctors, as Spouse and I like to say. ;-)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's so pretty!

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

You may have posted this in a previous entry - but when should we expect to see it in our mailboxes? *is getting uber-excited!*

[maiteoida.livejournal.com]

God, looking at the whole thing completed like that must be the best feeling ever, eh? XD

[marith.livejournal.com]

That's freaking gorgeous and I will so buy it.

If it hasn't gone to the printer yet, consider changing "contents contain" to "contents include"?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Good suggestion - I'll let Rachel know. Thanks!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's better.

[croaky.livejournal.com]

Looking awesome :D

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

If Mulder and Scully were both gay men...

That would have made the alien baby plot even weirder. Though I dare say I would have still watched it.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

MPREG!

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Yay! So looking forward to this.

[marumae.livejournal.com]

I WAAAAAAAAAAAANT. I mean...looks good dear. :D

[moonlit-page.livejournal.com]

Looks great. No spine treatment? No branding?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) The spine's too small for the printer to be absolutely sure they won't mess it up - .188", and I had the whole thing painted and planned back in the second half of last year before I realized that - duh - I could slap a PandaBuddha logo on it and get PB off the ground with a project I was already working on. :D

But I really like the title treatment - maybe I'll stick with that sort of thing. :) Or maybe not. I'll give more thought to the idea when I start get back to working on the anthology I'm doing with PB. XD

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I personally like the panda by the price. I wish more books would do that.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. :D I did a perfectly good logo and by God I am going to slap it everywhere I can!

[asteres.livejournal.com]

SOLD!

Let me know when it's ready and I'll buy. Great work, Steph.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

W00t! Looks enticing. I'll be buying a copy-- as others have stated, just let us know when and how and buy it I will. Hot men! Kissing! Each other! XD

[clockwork-hands.livejournal.com]

Bet that took a while...dumb question, but was this coloured in Photoshop?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Painter, actually. :) I did the basic linework in ComicStudio, then took it to Painter for coloring and it was done six months ago and all I can see are the places where I made mistakes AGH.

[clockwork-hands.livejournal.com]

No, no! It looks great! What version of Painter did you use?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. :D Painter IX.

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

i have a character named tyler..


wait!


*USES TYLER'S ICON!!!*


and he says he wants some tyler, texas bbq.




he also says he likes the book, even if he's straight. his says his roomate is a raging hot male who makes out with other raging hot males and he can dig it.

[oyceter]

Pretty!!! Also, I love the back blurb ^_^.

[cchan5000.livejournal.com]

That is ultimate sexiness. Really now. I'm not that much into the hot men making out but I may just have to buy this one! You've been doing a great job on everything I've seen up to this point, and I think the cover did it for me. Guns, x-files and alias reference? I'm there! And yes, for those wondering, the Republic of Texas anti-gov people DO exist. *shudder*

Now if I could only get my lettering job done as quick as you did!~

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

1. Alias should be in italics.

2. You already know about my name, Rachel Manija Brown.

3. You probably don't have time, but Jordan's hair at the back of his neck is different in the rest of the manga... we can just say he changes his cut periodically.

Otherwise, it looks beautiful.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

This is so fantastic!

So, sorry if you've mentioned already, but I've been sporadic on LJ for a month or so - where does one go to buy this lovely piece of smutartwork?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D One either waits until I say "HEY! THE BOOKS ARE HERE!" which will be in approximately a month, or one pre-orders. Either way, $9.99 ($7 + shipping) Paypaled to sfolse @ cepheid . org will get you one; if Paypal isn't looking good, then check/cash/money order/whatever sent to my home address will do much the same (email me at telophase14 @ gmail . com if you need that).

[estara.livejournal.com]

You should make the third picture from the top into a desktop size wallpaper, now that would go up on many screens! Like mine, for example ^^.

I'm happily leaning back, waiting for those two gorgeous guys to wing their way towards Germany :D.