Join author Nigel French in Designing Book Covers Hands-On Workshop as he walks through several approaches to creating professional, engaging book covers using Adobe Creative Suite applications. This course covers document setup, composition and layout, illustration, typography essentials, and printing. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Researching the design and brainstorming ideas
- Setting up a document in InDesign or Illustrator
- Choosing typefaces, colors, shapes, and imagery
- Hand-drawing type and using different type treatments
- Creating illustrations from scratch
- Using and adapting photographs for illustration
- Preparing the book covers for printing
- author
- Nigel French
- subject
- Design, Layout, Design Projects
- software
- Illustrator CS4, CS5 , InDesign CS4, CS5, Photoshop CS4, CS5
- level
- Intermediate
- duration
- 2h 46m
- released
- Aug 26, 2010
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