Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“In the second part of this class, I'm going to talk about how to finalize the cover guard layout using InDesign to make it easier when we have to assemble the complete cover.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Finalization and creation of the guard of book 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic. Combine images and text to create memorable book covers and bring your designs to life using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“Finalization and creation of the book guard Now, I'm going to add an irregularity effect in the outline of my illustration to give the effect of a less accurate impression and taking that aspect out of the very geometric, very right shapes. To make this effect, I'll create an Action, which is a command action in Photoshop to make it automated, because I will need to do this effect many times. There are 13 cards and I'm going to apply it to each of the colors. To give this irregularity effect to the outlines of the illustration, I will first need to create an image with a grainy texture, so ...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
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• 1771 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (3h 34m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Design, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Design, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Graphic Design