For anything fancy, you're better off creating the titlepage/cover in a layout program and then importing a PDF file at the time that you generate. While it's not a pure "LaTeX" option, it saves a significant amount of time. And I'm not sure that individualized covers are something that you would even want to do with pure LaTeX.
In the past few months, I've done several custom title pages for a series of reports and some document classes that will be distributed with a book I'm writing; and creating anything even somewhat fancy requires hours (if not days) worth of work. In contrast, generating something similar to your example with Scribus or InDesign would take no more than an hour or two. Moreover, because it is a program specifically designed for "finger painting", you have much better control over how things appear. Just my two cents, though. Cheers, Rob On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:24 +0200, Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña wrote: > Hi. > > I would like to do a elegant title page like some books as I attach, > with a photo as background and two columns. > > I have tried with titlepage package, but it seems that don't works in LyX. > > Have you any idea? > > Thanks. >
