The Final Gambit Book Cover Picture: Make Your Own Instructions

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Book Cover Picture

Below: Instructions to make your OWN Final Gambit book cover picture!!

Date: 2-22-25 Post Written By: MK

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Make Your Own Final Gambit Book Cover Picture!!

Perfect activity for anyone!! Students, kids, homeschoolers, adults, anyone!! Use your imagination to add anything you want to your Final Gambit book cover picture!!

Time: Depends on how much time you have!! Generally 5-20 minutes

Price: If you have all the materials already, free!! If not, from $1.00-$100.00 (depending on how much you choose to buy)

What I Really Liked About Mine: I really liked how the chess pieces and necklace lean onto the book, making it feel more intertwined with the objects, without blocking your view of it.

What I Would Do Differently: I clustered too many objects at the bottom of the picture in comparison to the top. In the future, I would spread them out more evenly.

Possible Steps:

(There really isn’t any way to make this wrong, so use your imagination and just have fun!!)

1. Buy/Collect Supples

   Example: Gather book, chess board, coins, dice, and playing cards together

2. Choose Picture’s Background

   Example: Chess Board

3. Plan Layout

   Example: Decide where to position the book and supplies in comparison to the background

4. Lay Supplies

   Example: Place your dice and cards surrounding the book (Try to spread out your objects as evenly as possible around the book)

5. Take Your Picture

   No need for any fancy photography equipment or lighting (though obviously if you have any, that’s great!!). I took my picture with a standard iPhone

6. Crop/Edit If Necessary!!

   Example: Crop out any edges/parts you don’t want in the picture. (If you are using an iPhone, I recommend cropping the picture into a square shape to make it look more professional).

Possible Supplies:

• The Final Gambit Book -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: The Final Gambit Book

• Chess Board -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Chess Board

• Money -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Fake Money

• Coins -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Fake Coins

• Chess Pieces -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Chess Pieces

• Dice -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Dice

• Playing Cards -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Playing Cards

• Puzzle Pieces -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Puzzle Pieces (If you already have puzzle pieces, but they have designs on one side, just flip them over!!).

• Compass -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Compass

• Scrabble Tiles -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Scrabble Tiles

• Heart Necklace -Use your own or buy now on Amazon: Heart Necklace

• Anything else you can think of!!!!!

Note: These are not links to the EXACT items I used, but similar ones