Opinions on a poster?

[James]

I'm making a poster to advertise my novel at my college and I want some opinions on it.

If there are any changes that should be made to it, then let me know. I've still got the .xcf file(It's a file extension in GIMP, which functions like Photoshop's .PSD file extension. It basically allows me to edit my image.)

(Yes, I guess everyone knows my name now.)

 

[Evil Eye]

I think you should improve the contrast on that text covering the images some.
Also... did you check your school's stance on swastikas? I could imagine it being taken down because of it.

 

[James]

No, but I might be able to check sometime tomorrow, when I have my class on Physical Networking.

 

[Sinon]

The text at the top (and at the bottom) is somewhat hard to read. If you're keeping the poster that size, people will struggle. However, if you upscale it the images will become pixelated. The comma after the word characters on the bottom needs a space after it, and there's some word jumbling with "may be not reproduced" (should be "may not be reproduced").

The text across the middle of the image is hard to read in places due to sharing similar colouring to the image itself, and the blurring looks strange. The art is nice, but the middle one looks slightly out of place.

Edit: Regarding the swastika issue, if you're able to, editing the image would be the easiest thing to do. Reverse it and you have the Sauwastika, a symbol of light and health. In fact, the Swastika was only adopted by Adolf Hitler as a Nazi motif, whereas it had existed hundreds of years before in Buddhism.

 

[James]

Updated it a bit and fixed problems with the text. The middle image doesn't look out of place anymore. The .xcf file is only letting go as far as changing the text, so I can't change the actual art.