09-18-2012, 04:22 PM
Hello,
I live in Essex, fairly close to Colchester (Camulodunum). The reason I've joined is I need some help and suggestions.
I have written a novel about a gladiatrix early second century AD. I had a lot of interest from an agent, who then, after some constructive suggestions, sad on the manuscript for a year. We have now parted company, and I have decided to publish the novel on Kindle, having already had some success with my crime novels.
The problem is, being a self-publisher, I need to create/buy in a cover for the novels. That's been fine until now, because I've used my own photographs (see my blog or Amazon pages), but with a female retiarius, that's going to be a bit tricky!
I tried creating a mosaic in Photoshop from scratch, but frankly, it's pretty poor (take a look on my FB page if you're curious).
I'm wondering about merging several photos of things like a gladius, secutor helemt, a trident, net etc with some sort of misty female figure. Or a photograph of a female retiarius, if there is one available at reasonable cost.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any photographs of equipment which I could use at low cost, please? Or knows where I could get such photographs. Or has any ideas or suggestions, please.
I live in Essex, fairly close to Colchester (Camulodunum). The reason I've joined is I need some help and suggestions.
I have written a novel about a gladiatrix early second century AD. I had a lot of interest from an agent, who then, after some constructive suggestions, sad on the manuscript for a year. We have now parted company, and I have decided to publish the novel on Kindle, having already had some success with my crime novels.
The problem is, being a self-publisher, I need to create/buy in a cover for the novels. That's been fine until now, because I've used my own photographs (see my blog or Amazon pages), but with a female retiarius, that's going to be a bit tricky!
I tried creating a mosaic in Photoshop from scratch, but frankly, it's pretty poor (take a look on my FB page if you're curious).
I'm wondering about merging several photos of things like a gladius, secutor helemt, a trident, net etc with some sort of misty female figure. Or a photograph of a female retiarius, if there is one available at reasonable cost.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any photographs of equipment which I could use at low cost, please? Or knows where I could get such photographs. Or has any ideas or suggestions, please.
Linda Priestley AKA Linda Gruchy