Lessons: 10Length: 41 minutes
- Overview
- Transcript
1.1 Introduction
Welcome to this Envato Tuts+ short course, How to Design a Book Cover. Book covers come in all shapes, sizes, styles and genres, each designed to engage a potential reader. Giving your cover an eye-catching and creative design that’s perfectly suited to your target audience will ensure your cover speaks to the right readership.
1.Introduction
1.1Introduction01:12
1.2What You'll Need to Get Started01:49
2.Getting Started: Genres, Styles, and Sizing Your Cover
2.1How to Find Creative Direction for Your Cover03:44
2.2How to Size Your Cover03:14
3.Designing Your Front Cover
3.1How to Draft the Front of Your Cover02:13
3.2How to Refine Your Design: Part One06:23
3.3How to Refine Your Design: Part Two08:32
4.Expanding Your Cover Design
4.1How to Expand Your Design Into a Full Cover07:34
4.2How to Export Your Cover for Printing03:25
5.Conclusion
5.1Conclusion02:51
1.1 Introduction
Hey there, welcome to this Tuts + short course, How To Design a Book Cover. My name is Grace Fussell, and I'm a graphic designer based in the UK. Book covers come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and styles, each designed to attract the eye of a particular reader. Giving your cover an eye catching and creative design that's perfectly suited to your target audience will ensure that your cover speaks to the right readership. In this course, you'll learn how to design book cover artwork that's not only engaging, attractive, and genre appropriate, but it's also going to be technically flawless too. We'll focus on creating a cover design for a print paperback, complete with front cover, spine and reverse. You'll learn how to find creative inspiration for your designs, how to size and layout your cover, and also how to expand the artwork into a full wraparound cover design. You'll also pick up some essential tips for how to prepare your cover correctly for printing. Whether you're sending off your artwork to a specialist printer, or uploading the design to an online print on demand service like Amazon CreateSpace, Lulu, or Blurb. I'm really looking forward to welcoming you on board this course. I hope you're excited to dive in with creating some really awesome cover designs.
