Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Photoshop and InDesign
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
About the video: Photoshop and InDesign
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll pull the physical artwork into Photoshop and InDesign. I’ll show you how to assemble things to make the mechanical ready for the printer.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Photoshop and InDesign, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer. Learn to design a book cover that invites exploration, interaction, and touch by using both physical artwork and InDesign.
Partial transcription of the video
“Photoshop and InDesign In the last lesson, we made the physical materials that we need. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to assemble them digitally into Photoshop and InDesign. I've scanned the painted stencils into Photoshop. The eye I scanned as what we call a CMYK file for printing. The Spider-Man logo, I scanned as what's called a bitmap file. That enables us to change its color in InDesign if we want. Now, I'm going to make a mechanical in InDesign to instruct the printer how to print the cover. This is also going to be sent to Marvel for approval. I'm going to make three prot...”
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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration
Chip Kidd
A course by Chip Kidd
Charles Kidd, better known as Chip, is a graphic designer and writer from Reading, Pennsylvania. After completing his studies in graphic design at Penn State University in 1986, he moved to New York City, where he found work at Random House as a junior book jacket designer, and where he still works to this day. Today, Chip is currently the Art Director of Knopf, an imprint of Random House.
Chip is best known for his work on the dinosaur skeleton image that he created for the first edition of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, which was then used in the movie franchise’s logo. He has also worked with many other authors over the years, including John Updike, Donna Tartt, Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, Orhan Pamuk, Neil Gaiman Haruki Murakami, and more. Chip has designed numerous covers for DC and Marvel Comics, notably The Watchmen, Spider-Man, Batman, Marvelocity, as well as covers for magazines like The Rolling Stone. In one of their issues, Time Out New York said about him: “the history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.”
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