Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Digitization and corrections

A course by Manuela Montoya Escobar , Illustrator and art director

98% positive reviews (127)

2,876 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Digitization and corrections

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how I digitize my work and how to make corrections in Photoshop.”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Digitization and corrections, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Children's Book Covers . Create a fantasy universe with mixed techniques by developing your own cover, from the initial brief and character design to the final digital edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“Digitization and Corrections In this lesson, I’ll explain how I digitize the cover and prepare it for the final piece. Let's go. I have my cover already scanned here. Now I’ll create the final file, which will be the final size of my cover. This file is scanned at 600 DPI, which is very high resolution, but a file with at least 300 DPI is enough. I’ll go to File, New. I’ll start making choices here, for example, that I need this in centimeters. I already told you my cover would be 17.5 cm wide by 24 cm high. But since I need a centimeter more on either side because of the bleed, this won’t ...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (127)
2876 students
4 units
16 lessons (3h 14m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Manuela Montoya Escobar

A course by Manuela Montoya Escobar

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Illustrator and art director

Manuela Montoya is an illustrator and art director. He studied advertising graphic communication at the University of Medellín (Colombia), his hometown, and later, he studied a master's degree in art direction at the Elisava school in Barcelona.

Throughout her career in the industry, she has worked in advertising agencies such as DDB and McCANN Worldgroup as a designer and illustrator. He has also illustrated books for publishers such as SM, Cruïlla, Penguin Random House, Usborne and Little Brown, among others.