[Leica] Book cover design or photo

[Douglas Sharp]

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
>
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> 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
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> Cc: Don Dory
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Book cover design or photo
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> 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
>>
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