On popular demand, I made a how-to graphic book~ c: Here I will provide instructions on how to find the best picture, what apps I use, and make tutorials of requested covers.
I have to say that this is one of my best covers, so why not do a tutorial for it. C:
Step One - SuperImpose
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• I first added the two boys into the cover, and erased the backgrounds. I set them both on multiply (blend mode) and merged it into the background. Then add their original picture as the foreground, making sure to line them up as closely as possible, then used Hard Light blend mode and merge them into the background. I didn't need to blend it well near the bottom since those messy area will be covered up.
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• Next up was the girl. I first set her to multiply, merge, then hard light, merge, such as before.
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• Time for Reshiram and Zekrom. I first added Reshiram, and made sure to erase as neatly as possible since this is on the front and nothing will cover with, and, like before, used multiply - merge - Hard light - Merge. For Zekrom, I did multiply - merge - darken -merge instead, and made sure I erased as neatly as possible.
Step 2 - Phonto
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• Font: Evanescence
• I made sure the text was a clear as possible since, other than the stuff on the cover, it's really important. To make it more clear, I added a white shadow to the black text and black shadow to the white text.
Step 3 - Pixlr
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• For this step, before I added filters, I made sure to auto contrast it. Then I used Ingrid (or Hagrid since they are so similar).
• Then I used the default filter Dean and erased the effects around the text, only leaving a box around the text with only that area with the affects.
• Then I used Ingrid/Hagrid again, then auto contrasted it again. Because I used Ingrid/Hagrid so much, I got this really sharp look that makes dark spots brighter and clearer to see.
