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Xenophonz: more postwork = more time. And when the machine is already tied up doing a massive render at 300dpi -which limits the output-, if money isn't that good, quite a few people are not going to postwork things too much, because they are already making little money on them as it it.

Having said that, basic adjustments should really take very little time to do, and should be done regardless. Then again, the publishing dates for the books say 2003 and 2004, and back then, what you're seeing on the covers wasn't that far away from the average image here.

There is some money to be made in book covers, yes. But not as much as people think, even less than in the marketplace tbh. There was even an e-publisher that offered me $10 per cover as if they were doing me a favour. If anybody is thinking of doing this, I would suggest you think it over VERY WELL before giving such a low price to your work, because frankly, even the simplest of covers should take you more than an hour or two to put together, quite a long while for the render at the necessary size, and that's without the author's second input for modifications. Is your work really worth $10 or less an hour, without even getting into the aspects of buying stuff needed for a specific cover?

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