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Nathan: Created page with "Most of the Timelines books to date have two covers -- the original, and the rebooted version. The original covers were made in DAZ3D Studio Pro, and usually the text was added using Adobe Photoshop 7. (Yes. 7. That CD has followed me around for ''years'' and been used since at least Windows XP.) The rebooted covers are MidJourney creations, usually two images put together with Adobe Photoshop 2023. The Photoshop version is important because that upgrade includ..."

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Created page with "Most of the Timelines books to date have two covers -- the original, and the rebooted version. The original covers were made in DAZ3D Studio Pro, and usually the text was added using Adobe Photoshop 7. (Yes. 7. That CD has followed me around for ''years'' and been used since at least Windows XP.) The rebooted covers are MidJourney creations, usually two images put together with Adobe Photoshop 2023. The Photoshop version is important because that upgrade includ..."

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Most of the Timelines books to date have two covers -- the original, and the rebooted version.

The original covers were made in DAZ3D Studio Pro, and usually the text was added using Adobe Photoshop 7. (Yes. 7. That CD has followed me around for ''years'' and been used since at least Windows XP.)

The rebooted covers are MidJourney creations, usually two images put together with Adobe Photoshop 2023. The Photoshop version is important because that upgrade included an enhanced object recognition tool that makes it child's play to mask and cut an image (say, of Ariela) out of a background that doesn't fit the story, or is too "far out" or otherwise unusable. For instance, the image I generated for the new cover of ''The Lion of God'' had her backed up against an impossible aircraft, so I cut her out of that and placed her on top of another MidJourney image of a starship. I'm now doing the lettering and other manipulation of covers in Adobe InDesign 2023, which is a lot easier than trying to do the lettering in Photoshop. Use the right tool for the job, y'know? Besides, it's easier to lay out a paperback or hardback cover in InDesign. (For what it's worth, ''all'' of the paperback and hardback covers have been laid out in InDesign.)

I would like to acknowledge the assistance of my very good and nearly life-long friend Geoff Edwards, who first patiently tutored me in DAZ3D Studio, advised me on cover layout, and later advised me more with MidJourney and helped me clean up the frequent "bad eyes/too many fingers" problems MidJ had in the beginning. The cover of ''The Tale of the Crane Princess'' is entirely his, based on a discussion we had about the plot and Tsurue's initial inability to leave Ōmishima. It wasn't a scene from the book, but I hope it captures for the reader (as it does for me) her longing to understand her past and her wish to leave the island to explore the wider world.

Finally, I would also like to acknowledge the keen eye of author and friend Sarah A. Hoyt for telling me my covers sucked (they did, you can see them right down there) and kicked my ass into gear working on replacing them. Ms. Hoyt has been a great help to me in this regard, I simply could not have done it without her.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Book!!DAZ3D (original) Cover!!MidJourney Cover
|-
|The Lion of God||[[File:The Lion of God.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:The Lion of God Kindle cover (new).jpg|none|thumb|260x260px]]
|-
|The Lion and the Lizard||[[File:The Lion and the Lizard (original).jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:The Lion and the Lizard.jpg|none|thumb|260x260px]]
|-
|The Lion in Paradise||[[File:The Lion in Paradise.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:The Lion in Paradise Kindle Cover (new).jpg|none|thumb|260x260px]]
|-
|The Lion and the Darkness Not yet published
(Probable cover)
|n/a||[[File:The Lion and the Darkness.jpg|none|thumb|260x260px]]
|-
|The Lion and the Logic Not yet published
(Probable image)
|n/a||[[File:The Lion and The Logic kindle cover.jpg|alt=|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|}
Timelines Universe (short stories, novellae, novels)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Book!!DAZ3D (original) Cover!!MidJourney Cover
|-
|The Reason||[[File:The Reason.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:The Reason (new).jpg|none|thumb|226x226px]]
|-
|A Fox in the Henhouse||[[File:A Fox In The Henhouse.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:A Fox in the Henhouse (new).jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|A Dragon in the Foie Gras||[[File:A Dragon In The Foie Gras.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:A Dragon in the Foie Gras (new).jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''A Huntress on the Rocks''||[[File:A Huntress On The Rocks.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:A Huntress on the Rocks (new).jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''The Cross-Time Kamaitachi''
(Note: The MidJourney image

was generated by me, but

"cleaned up" by my friend Geoff

Edwards, who's better at such

things than I am.)
|[[File:The Cross-Time Kamaitachi.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]||[[File:The Cross-Time Kamaitachi (new, Kindle).jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''The Tale of the Crane Princess''
(Note: This cover was originally

generated by my friend Geoff

Edwards; it was my first MidJ

cover, so there is no DAZ3D

version. I did the lettering, and

the Japanese caption says

"Tsuruhime Monogatari", which

translates directly to the English

title of the book.)
|(n/a)||[[File:The Tale of the Crane Princess.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''The Dragon's Sister''||(n/a)||[[File:The Dragon's Sister.jpg|none|thumb|226x226px]]
|-
|''An American in Iya''
The Japanese caption says

"Iya no kome kokujin", which

translates more or less

directly to the English

title of the book, though

I prefer to pronounce

"kome kokujin" as

"amerikajin" in this case.<ref>I should note that when I took Japanese in the 1980s, I was taught that the correct ''kanji'' for "America" or "United States" was "''beikoku''", written with the kanji for "rice" (米, ''bei'', which can also be pronounced ''kome'' or ''gohan'') and the kanji for "country" (国, ''koku''). The implication was that America was a rich land of plentiful food and other things, thus it was a "rice country".</ref>
||(n/a)||[[File:An American In Iya alternate 1 Kindle cover.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''On Account of a Dame''||(n/a)||[[File:On_Account_of_a_Dame_Kindle_cover.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|-
|''All Precious Stones and Peoples''
(Note: This book has not been

completed or released, so the

cover, while likely final, still may

change slightly.)
|(n/a)||[[File:All Precious Stones and Peoples.jpg|none|thumb|240x240px]]
|}

=== Notes ===
[[Category:Timelines]]
[[Category:General]]

Covers - Revision history

Nathan at 18:27, 23 April 2025