Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“Once the sketches are made, you will have several paths to choose from for your cover. It is important that you explore them all, because in this way you will know which is the one that best suits the cover you are looking for. I will teach you how to do those explorations with your sketches until you reach the result you want. ”

In this video lesson Daniel Bolívar addresses the topic: Creating the cover image, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Book Cover Design. Learn the essentials to design the front cover of a book from start to finish.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating the cover image I am going to develop some ideas that we saw in the last lesson. I use InDesign and Photoshop programs and I jump a lot from one program to another, but you can use the program in which you feel most comfortable. I made some lists and started doing some cover sketches. I want to share them. I have them already in Photoshop digitized and the first sketches I made It is a woman distributed in different poses on the cover. In profile, in the center nothing more than a silhouette, behind a weed in the botanical garden, it's a very cute scene from one of the stories. May...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Book Cover Design

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (184)
• 3910 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (2h 36m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design