Cover Makeover – The Sound of Music

This week’s Makeover Challenge is for The Sound of Music. I made two covers because I couldn’t decide which one I liked better.  Here’s the second choice:

The process for the first selection:

My base photo is of the Blue Ridge Mountains from a balcony at the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, NC.

Since I didn’t have a close-up of a mountain, I used this photo from Chugach State Park in Alaska. I used half of one photo and half of the other to make one photo.

ballet clip art, and text – and voila’!

The second selection process:

Another photo from Alaska, this time taken from the plane on the way home, cropped and darkened.

Another ballet clip art  and text – double voila!

This makeover challenge was sponsored by Lucile de Godoy – check out her blog for great photography ideas and to participate in this challenge!

Here are some classic covers from the movie and album. My mom loves the movie by the way. She would love to go to one of those sing-a-longs she’s read about. Whenever she watches the movie, she sings along and let me tell you, me and the rest of the cats run and hide!!

   

  Makeover Artist: Toby

Book Cover Makeover – The Lord of The Rings

This week the Cover Makeover challenge is the classic, The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. Another book we have not read (bad on us!) but we’ve seen the movies so I knew the storyline fairly well. Since mom had unearthed some photos of her trip to Mountain Lake Lodge years ago and posted some of them on another challenge, I thought some of them were perfect for this challenge.

This is the base photo – it actually ended up getting lost. I’m a little sorry about that.

I overlaid this photo of a view through the stone archways of the Lodge.

Added this photo as texture and performed digital color magic with it.

Grabbed this clip art Ring off the internet, added text and then, at long last (two hours later), done!

Thank you PicMonkey for the photo-shopping fun!!

Checkout Goodreads review Here!

Go HERE for more information about the challenge and join!

Cover Makeover Artist: Toby

Other covers:

   

Covers for the separate books

There are many, many more!

Book Cover Makeover Challenge – 1984

The Board promises – we will have a book review on Monday – BobbieSue promises to finish her book this weekend. Sneak peek – it’s by Margaret Atwood and it’s a Banned Book! Banned Book Week is coming up soon, so make sure you pick out a banned book to read and talk about it! We must band together to combat narrow-mindedness and censorship!

Anyway, the book cover makeover for this week is George Orwell’s 1984 (also a banned book – more on that later).  Toby worked on this one also!!

I took a photo of a skylight from a local library, copied it, turned one copy upside down and overlaid it on top to the other and changed the color scheme. Then taking another photo from the same library of a calendar monitor, I cropped it and overlaid a cropped photo of mom’s eyeball in the center. Added lettering and I was done!!

Here’s one of many of the published covers  (I love its funky typography) –

According to the ALA 1984 was challenged in 1981 in the Jackson County, Florida, School Board because Orwell’s novel is “pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter.”

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1937

Linking to Desley and Lucille Cover Makeover Challenge

Cover Makeover Artist: Toby

Book Cover Makeover Challenge

These are my last two catch-up covers! First up, the book cover:

Next, a movie poster:

The originals:

The Long Way Home info from Goodreads

Winter’s Tale info from IMDb

For the first one, I took a photo of a local cemetery, cropped it, added sepia tone and burned it along the clouds and trees.  The movie poster is a photo of iced over azalea bushes tinted blueish-purple, and added a clipart cityscape and white horses.

Thanks to Lucille and Desley for the fun challenge!

Book Cover Makeover Artist: Toby

Cover Makeover – The Green Mile

It’s Cover Makeover Challenge time!  This time the challenge is to makeover Stephen King’s  The Green Mile. The book was originally published in six separate novels before it was published as a single book. Then, of course it was a movie.

I took one of my mom photos from Alaska and one of the crows she likes so much, overlayed the crow, greened it up a bit, zoomed it and voila! Oh, and added some text. Haven’t read the book, but I saw the movie. It was powerful, and mom really loves Tom Hanks’ movies.

Here’s some other covers of the book:

     

Thanks to Lucille and Desley for the fun challenge!

Book Cover Makeover Artist: Toby