Thread: Single in January Book Editor needed

Bob and Antonio...thanks a bunch. I'll send you the file tonight along with a brief description of what I need. Hopefully with all these talents we'll have something tangible in hand soon.

BB, Otto seems like he has some good days and some bad days. I'm sure he'll appreciate your kind words when he sees them here. I don't know him anymore than I know all of you other folks, but judging from his humor and grace exchanging emails with him, he'll get through this rough stretch.

Thanks, Luke. I'm going to write a note to him...which is what I should have done, rather than just think and wonder!

OK volunteers......you should have a pretty massive file hitting your inbox shortly.....how big is 24,423K ?
Give me a shout-out if it doesn't come through for you (or if your email can;t handle a file that big)

OK....the email failed delivery to 2 of the 4 for being too big. Bob, is there any other way for me to get you this file? I send an email to the other involved party.

Just sent a new email with a link from a download site....

I still haven't had any luck with a pleasing layout for the cover and I haven't heard back from any of the members here who volunteered to take a look at it, so I can only assume that they were stymied as well.

So I'm a bit flummoxed on how to proceed. I have 3 ideas, and I'm sure there are more. Let me know if you think one sounds better than the other or if you have any other ideas that may work. I'm pretty sure I'm overthinking it since I see Ray has already put out a book from his month in New York, but that's what I do.

1 - A plain cover.....solid color with title.....minimalist to the max.
2 - a smaller scale layout using just half of the images. I think this would be much easier to layout and look balanced (although this might not be true either). Also, it would be simple to do 2 different ones so people could choose whichever they prefer (or whichever layout featured their shot )
3 - set up a poll......anyone who wants to submit one of their images for the cover could so and then we simply vote on our favorites.....the top 2 would be featured......one front and one back. (This one seems like it could be a bit of a headache and maybe more trouble than it's worth)

Let me know what you all think, or if you have any other ideas and then I can get this thing done and we can move on.

I would go with a plain, minimalist cover. If there's any voting involved, count me out because it was never a competition.

Barrie

Sorry Luke. I wish I could have helped -- but I don't have Photoshop ... :(

My vote goes for minimalistic as well. Solid color sounds good -- perhaps all black with a small white print centered on the cover with the following "SeriousCompacts.com - Single in January 2012".

I think I mentioned I loved the "minimal" look of the prototype version in your video, Luke ... so that's my vote

I played with it for awhile, I think we are better off with the minimal look,