I made this for my sister’s birthday. Actually, I intended to do the complete Federation of the Hub

I made this for my sister’s birthday. Actually, I intended to do the complete Federation of the Hub - all four books - but sadly didn’t have time to finish; still got one book left to do. Might give her the last three for Christmas - along with something else, of course. Don’t think I’ve attempted a holiday-themed e-book, yet… and I’ve got this idea for a scroll that might be good with some Christian texts… Might’ve been closer to finished if the editor’s commentary at the end of Book 3 hadn’t been completely screwed up. Ah, well. Some things we can’t change. Although it occurs to me that I should probably alert Baen to that little issue - the whole section was unreadable, and I had to look up an html version of it.I also had an interesting problem with the title page for book two: despite using the same font as the other two books, the title was completely screwed up for no apparent reason. It’s as if the letter spacing failed completely and all the letters collided with each other - a complete garble. Thankfully exporting to PDF solved the problem, but I’m still curious as to why the heck it happens with some fonts at some scales, and not with others at other scales.Anyway, on a much better note, I enjoyed making the pages for these. I decided to go with a “classic sci-fi computer screen theme”. The border around the page is a result of bump-mapping combined with a VGA colour index I found on the web - in fact, everything is VGA, including the title page (which is, admittedly, just the original cover converted to VGA and given a video filter). The actual screen was done separately; a little bit of noise to give it texture, then VGA and video filter, and voila. I also used a more… old computer-y font than usual for the main text, to give it that little bit extra.I also wanted to make the back page look like the screen being turned off, with one of those four-point starbursts on it, but I ran into two problems: One, it was surprisingly difficult to create in GIMP; two, it looked terrible in VGA; and three, there was a slight problem with putting text over it afterwards. So instead I went with a plain black screen - although, unlike our silly non-science fiction screens, it still has those video bars across it!The static image for the endpages is, I think, the first time I’ve not even attempted a marbled paper look, and probably not the last; it wouldn’t have worked with a science fiction theme, anyway (and on a related note, those grapes I couldn’t reach were probably sour, too).Resources used:Telzey Amberdon (ebook), available at: https://www.baen.com/telzey-amberdon.htmlControl Freak (font), available at: http://www.fontspace.com/apostrophic-lab/control-freakGranular BRK (font), available at: http://www.fontspace.com/ænigma-fonts/granular-brkXolonium (font), available at: http://www.fontspace.com/severin-meyer/xolonium -- source link

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