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Pop quiz! You find that the picture you took for your book cover is underwhelming. Do you:
a) take another picture?
b) find an image from a stock photo firm that does the job better?
c) throw a metric crapload of filters at it and call it good?
Show your work!
The whole “woman hugging a tree, with added disappointment” trope.
There will always be tree huggers.
Here’s one more.
I’ve spent the last few weeks learning how to use photoshop so I can do my own covers. I literally cannot understand how people keep coming up with such crap! Photoshop is such an easy program to use and there are tons of decent (and free) stock images you can use.
This madness must stop!