For one of our assingments for a school project, we have to remake a book cover of a book we chose to read. I went with Jurassic Park, but read it in a day or so, and we were supposed to read it in class (imagine that) so I switched to Jurassic Park 2. So while everyone is turning in pencil + crayon paper covers, I want a nice front cover, so I hand painted some terrains in Photoshop, and set them all up in Bryce. This is supposed to be a (fake) bookcover, so any comments and critique is encouraged. Postwork (obviously) done in Photoshop. This isn't the full quality thing... I kinda compressed it for easy viewing.

Way to go!!! I like this!!

Ya done good, guy! :)

I like that, could i have it for a texture without the text please :)

Didn't see what it was until I leaned back a bit. Very nice :)

Crazy Dawg: Like, the material I used for the ground? It's actually just a preset. I honestly didn't think the idea would work, but it turned out to after all, so I kept it. Thank you all for the nice comments, it's the first real image I've posted at Renderosity.

Very cool idea. But, you should have done the title in single colour, light blue, so it doesn't blend in too much. And the prints should have been much darker. CrazyDawg, it's mediterranean hills preset. Which doesn't look like any mediterranean hills I know. :-)

my own feeling is that there's too much happening. I didn't cop that they were footprints until I read Mahray's comment, and squinted at it. How about if you homed in on just one footprint, made the water a bit more reflective, the ground mat a bit darker, and the text colour different from the water? ...or......what strikes me as very nice, but again maybe not emphasised enough....is the feeling that the lettering is holes punched through with a whole sky image behind showing through. same sky could be shown reflected in the water puddle in the footprint. People skim their eyes across rows of book covers, you have to punch them with the message of what the book is about, they won't pause to squint to decipher a message. But it's a great idea, and beautifully carried out :^)

Title needs to be more clearly defined to give it impact.The first thing I look at when selecting a book is the "Title",except when looking at a specific Author, the actual picture on the cover is the last thing I look at but it still needs to be eye catching. Great stuff so far. Cheers 8) GG.

just a thought, but maybe a shadowy form of a dinosaur, maybe even a claw, leg or something, possibly as another layer. just me being me..;)