Original cover art
The picture on the left is of the original artwork before
it was altered for the cover. I thought that the background was to dark and
you could not see the ranger good enough.The title also seemed too dark.I
had it scanned and then lightened the background and lettering up in Photoshop
on a Mac to make things pop a little better. The background image was from
a photograph I took looking straight down off of the middle of the Foresthill
Bridge in Auburn CA just off highway 80 east. It took me hours to paint all
the detail in the trees and rocks at the bottom of the bridge, only to end
up hiding them on the finished version of the cover (on the right). |
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