Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't know whether it would work, but? try something spherical like a Christmas tree ball resting on a mirror and crop the image at top and bottom. Or just photograph the ball, halve the image, duplicate it,reverse one half as a mirror-image and merge the two. Cheers Douglas On 12.04.2018 19:15, John McMaster wrote: > Or just do it all in PS..... > > john > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Don Dory via LUG > Sent: 12 April 2018 18:00 > To: Leica Users Group > Cc: Don Dory > Subject: Re: [Leica] Book cover design or photo > > Have you considered some glass spheres and a lot of photoshop. Photograph > a glass sphere on the background of your choice; do a hard crop so that it > is the hemisphere that you want; copy and flip in PS then using layers > place them as you imagine. Using selection tools select just the spheres > then put those as the first layer with what works for you cover as the > second layer. > > All the best. > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:50 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> > wrote: > >> The only round bottomed things we have in our kitchen are bain-maries >> for chocolate, I cannot think of any other hemisphere based items as >> they are of little use. Maybe something with a hemispherical top >> inverted..... >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of Peter Cheyne via LUG >> Sent: 12 April 2018 10:06 >> To: lug >> Cc: Peter Cheyne >> Subject: [Leica] Book cover design or photo >> >> Dear LUGgers, >> >> I've written a book that wants a cover. I have an idea, but can't find >> the materials to execute it. The book is academic, to be titled >> *Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy*. My cover idea is of an image >> of one hemisphere, inverted, on top of another, i.e. a bowl facing >> upward, atop a bowl facing downward. Here are some rough sketches I made: >> >> https://flic.kr/p/24ZJpyo >> >> My initial thought was to find two matching hemispheres, and arrange >> them as in the sketches, photographed against a white backdrop, with a >> clean, modernist, minimalist aesthetic. Two hemispheric glass bowls, >> or iron ones, or brass, or some other material. But I can find no such >> things, so far. >> (The concept, by the way, is of the higher, enlightened understanding >> turned upward, towards what Coleridge called reason, spirit, and >> ideas, with the lower hemisphere turned towards the things of the >> senses.) >> >> Does anyone have access to such objects? If you could photograph them >> in a way suitable for a book cover, I could pay. Not a great deal, but >> around >> $200 is possible. The publisher might possibly be able to match that >> too, so between $200 and $400 is possible. You'd also get a hardcover >> copy of the book. My previous was published by Oxford University >> Press, and I'm hoping this one will be too. >> >> Also, if anyone here is a graphic designer, and thinks they could >> nicely execute a graphic image, rather than a photo, developed from >> the idea in my sketches, that would be an interesting option too. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >