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

“Creation of mockup or digital dummy We already have our cover and final cover ready, and now I want to show you how to turn the cover into a mockup to look like a book already printed and finished and so they can integrate it into their professional portfolio Or send it to a publisher and make it look professional. Let's see how we solve it digitally. Export the cover proposals that we have in a new folder. Here I will put Export, New folder, and I will name it Proposals. I'll put "All the stories" and make them JPG. I will rank that all proposals and export it at 250 dpi. In this way we al...”

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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