The new book is going to the printer on August 1st and I'm having a tough time deciding on the book cover. The hard part is finding a decent graphic to use for the background. I search the stock photo websites for something that looks appropriate, but each website has thousands of images to browse through. Man, it takes a long time to find anything on those sites.

Here is my latest cover design. I have a week to decide whether I want to keep it or find something else. Any comments?

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Edited by BrianBischof - 21 Jul 2007 at 5:13pm

Thanks John. Yeah, I had someone else say that I should tone down the brightness of the green. But a designer told me that if I do that then it will be harder to read the lettering on the front. There has to be a good contrast. I should play around with it in photoshop a bit and see how it looks.

The bad part is that you never know how it will look when it comes back from the printer. Due to how the inks come out on the day you print, it could be brighter or darker just due to the nature of the printing process. I've seen my existing book with different shades of purple on the cover from the same printer. It's a bit of a gamble either way.

I agree.  The colors and layout are nice.  You could tone it down a little if you like, but otherwise, I would go with it.  Congrats on the printing! 

This looks really nice. When it would be available in India