Latest Cover Design—Dear Tiger: Let’s Go A-Hunting

Compared to Blaedergil’s Host, the cover design for this addition to the on-going Dear Tiger series was simple:

Take your template, and make sure you change the title and the number of the book in the series. Now, add your Dreamstime-sourced, base image of planets by Roberto Pirola, linking the series together.

Find a lovely picture of the Ruins of Ta Prohm by VincentSt. Thomas at Dreamstime, and resize it, using the Move tool in the Toolbox sidebar to choose what portion to show on your cover. Highlight the layer featuring the ruins in the layer’s sidebar, and reduce the opacity to 45% using the slidebar at the top.

Add in the spaceship image you sourced from Junichi Shimazakion Dreamstime, and which you have already isolated from its background. Flip the spaceship image and move it to where you want it on your cover using the Move tool, and then highlight the background layer in the Layers sidebar, select the Image tab, and select Autocrop Image from the drop down menu to trim all the layers hanging off the edges of your cover.

The final image for this cover turned out as follows: