LOL. You know, gang, I realize that this imagery does not contain pseudohumans, in the typical sense that we use it around here, but I was recently shown these: https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/5537337618464768#gallery=album3509&page=1 and I have to say, if we are going to start seeing pseudos like these, we may have to modify the tag. (To crappy/cheap pseudos, or the like.)
Ah, the difference between a 3D artist who knows what they are doing and someone using stock forms in a rendering program. Much like the difference between Rembrandt and my crappy stick figure drawings.
Yes. I’m told (by some avid devotees of that software and all that) that inept authors–I mean, inept DIY cover designers–can “buy” things like realistic hair, etc., from other Daz-whatever artists that sell their wares and output in their Store. It’s rather interesting, really. I can’t draw bupkus, so I thought I’d give it a whirl.
After all, if I can use it…what the heck. (FWIW, before I recommend something to my customers, I always thoroughly test it. Templates, how-to cover tutorials or handouts, software…all of it. I don’t recommend anything unless I’ve used it myself satisfactorily. There are, in fact, 3 books on Amazon selling that have covers that I made–yes, I kid thee not–using Derek Murphy’s DIY Book Cover materials for Word! I’m pig-headed about making sure that “stuff works.”)
I figure if I can make a pseudo that doesn’t look like the dog’s breakfast, well..then any bozo can do it. I doubt that will be the outcome, let me be clear, but…I feel compelled to try it.
It depends on the country, but in the USA, some of it is. Much/most is not.
For example, in the US, you cannot at this time write about Watson’s 2nd wife, because she’s mentioned in a later SH work, one which is yet under copyright, but you can write about his first wife (introduced originally in The Sign of Four) all you want.
The Amazon page for the book does list it as:A Case of Identity Theft: A New Sherlock Homes Mystery (New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Book 6) Kindle Edition So do the heirs to the estate of the author of the original Sherlock Homes stories have a case?
When the Amazon page title differs from the book cover title, which should we go with?
The angel in me says Look Inside! and use the title page of the book.
The devil in me says go with the most humorous typo.
Oh, Sweet Mycroft! How many different timeframes can we slam into one lousy book cover? So to speak?
Is that one Victorian gentleman about to relieve himself on the grass?
Yes, it does look as though he’s, uh…freeing the lizard right there.
More than a case of identity theft going on here.
LOL. You know, gang, I realize that this imagery does not contain pseudohumans, in the typical sense that we use it around here, but I was recently shown these: https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/5537337618464768#gallery=album3509&page=1 and I have to say, if we are going to start seeing pseudos like these, we may have to modify the tag. (To crappy/cheap pseudos, or the like.)
Ah, the difference between a 3D artist who knows what they are doing and someone using stock forms in a rendering program. Much like the difference between Rembrandt and my crappy stick figure drawings.
Yes. I’m told (by some avid devotees of that software and all that) that inept authors–I mean, inept DIY cover designers–can “buy” things like realistic hair, etc., from other Daz-whatever artists that sell their wares and output in their Store. It’s rather interesting, really. I can’t draw bupkus, so I thought I’d give it a whirl.
After all, if I can use it…what the heck. (FWIW, before I recommend something to my customers, I always thoroughly test it. Templates, how-to cover tutorials or handouts, software…all of it. I don’t recommend anything unless I’ve used it myself satisfactorily. There are, in fact, 3 books on Amazon selling that have covers that I made–yes, I kid thee not–using Derek Murphy’s DIY Book Cover materials for Word! I’m pig-headed about making sure that “stuff works.”)
I figure if I can make a pseudo that doesn’t look like the dog’s breakfast, well..then any bozo can do it. I doubt that will be the outcome, let me be clear, but…I feel compelled to try it.
I believe ACD’s work is still under copyright.
It depends on the country, but in the USA, some of it is. Much/most is not.
For example, in the US, you cannot at this time write about Watson’s 2nd wife, because she’s mentioned in a later SH work, one which is yet under copyright, but you can write about his first wife (introduced originally in The Sign of Four) all you want.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/sherlock-holmes-copyright-ruling-public-domain
The author has a whole series of Holmes stories and this is not the worst of the covers.
It took me a second visit to this page to notice “Sherlock Homes”. It ain’t on the cover, but still.
Johno: it is on the cover–look at the top. ???
Dunno, I can clearly see the “L” there.
Snort, oh! Well noticed, kiddo! Nathan, dear boy, wakey-wakey!
The title as listed on Amazon is missing the “L” — no wakey required.
Well, damnation! So it is. I prostrate myself at your feet, oh exalted one. Sorry!
The Amazon page for the book does list it as:A Case of Identity Theft: A New Sherlock Homes Mystery (New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Book 6) Kindle Edition
So do the heirs to the estate of the author of the original Sherlock Homes stories have a case?
When the Amazon page title differs from the book cover title, which should we go with?
The angel in me says Look Inside! and use the title page of the book.
The devil in me says go with the most humorous typo.
That’s pretty much my rule of thumb.