Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“A digital mock-up or dummy can help people visualize your design as a printed book. In this lesson I will show you an easy way to generate a digital dummy .”

In this video lesson Daniel Bolívar addresses the topic: Creation of mock-up or digital dummy, 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

“Well. we now have our cover and final cover ready. The next step I want to demonstrate is transforming this cover into a mock-up that resembles an actual printed and finished book. This will enable you to add it to your professional portfolio or submit it to publishers. enhancing its appearance and making it look more polished and professional. Let's see how we solve it digitally. Export the cover proposals we have into a new folder. Here. i'll write 'export' and create a new folder. This way. we organize our work efficiently. And I'm going to name it proposals. I'll convert all the stories...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Book Cover Design

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (185)
• 3981 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