Here’s a cover double — but this one, they’ve mirrored the model’s position.
The Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt was published by FaithWords in September 2008. It’s a pretty distinctive cover, though it comes off a bit blindingly white.
Then I saw this last week and knew immediately it was a cover double:
You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis will be published by Delacorte in September 2011. Notice the girl’s leg and arm are reversed from what they are in the first cover? The title’s in the same position, but instead of feeling blindingly white, the designer chose to add a city building to the outside of the window. I think that really anchors the cover better, as does the fact the girl is cropped a little bit closer than in the first cover. The colors are also a little more bold in the clothes in this cover, which also adds to giving this cover a less blinding quality.
Is it me or does it appear the first cover has air brushed the girl’s leg, as well? It’s a little hard to tell because of the angles and the way the light filters through, but it appears to me that the first cover has taken a few liberties with thinning out the standing leg. It could simply be the fact the second cover is more closely cropped as well.
I think the second cover does it just a little better, given the background in the window, but what do you think? Do you prefer one over the other?
I really prefer the second cover. It feels much less filtered and more natural in the coloring. I think you summed the first one up pretty well with 'blinding'–even her sweater is a pretty bright shade.
As for the photoshopping…I think her leg looks thinner in the top version right around the knee, but it might be the filters used?
Gah, these cover doubles!
I definitely like the second cover better. The blinding white of the top makes me think of her stepping into heaven or something. I think the higher contrast also plays into why she appears to be thinner — I did some rough PS scale-comparison and she's actually the same size. The light-wrap plays eyeball tricks on you!
Yeah, I agree with what you said about the cityview in the second cover anchoring the image better. And like Capillya above, I think the leg difference is due to the lighting. Makes me wonder what kind of lighting the original photograph was taken with!
Second one is WAY better.
It always amazed me that the same cover uses the same image. I know there isn't anyway to really know that's the case (I imagine anyway) but it's such a drag to make that investment and then have something similar.
I too like the second over the first.
Interestingly, the bottom image is the original image, except the phone on the window sill was added in.
I agree about the second cover.
There are a lot of duplicated images in covers…and I really don't know why!