where I (lowly cover maker) will provide you (sexy homo sapien) with templates, tutorials, and other graphic-y stuff for your books.
enjoy.
or don't, it's up to you man.
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Sooooo, since none of us actually have a PC i thought i would try to come up with a way to smoothen out our graphics without actually having to use Topaz. And at first i honestly thought "well balls, they'll just have to keep looking like crap."
But no, not anymore. Ladies and gents, i present you with...
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If y'all have already heard of this, just ignore the fact that i'm supposed to be the adviser and i didn't even know this existed while you guys did. mkay? mkay. ;))
Anyway, this is a (very helpful) app that is basically a mobile user's Topaz Labs && i'm gonna give a brief tutorial on how you use it!
First, load your finished graphic into Oil Effect.
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The defaults are set on 50 and obviously that's too much loool so adjust the 'Amount' and 'Radius' until you're happy with it!
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For this particular cover, i adjusted the settings to 12 & 4. But the numbers vary on how smooth and clean you want each individual graphic.
Next, press the check at the top to save! It's a lot like PicsArt in the way it functions so if you've gotten the hang of PA then you'll pick this application up pretty quickly :))
After saving, it'll take you to a panel that looks like this (on android)
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And from there you can tap on the 'More' option and open it into Phonto that way! It'll save ya a few steps in the long run :))
Add your text and voila! new cover created ^.^
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Font used: Title & Author: quinn
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heyyyy hey y'all, hope this lil segment of my beyond shoddy book helped you guys in some warped way ;)))
&&& stay tuned for my next crappy attempt at creating a descent graphic tutorial!
