Adding Blurb text to my book cover designs
For this lesson, we learnt how to apply the blurb text, editing the text from InDesign to Illustrator. To place the text, I firstly applied a text box on an A4 page, and then went to Type-Fill it with placeholder text. By doing so the text in Latin saved before automatically appeared in the text box. I chose the Bauhaus 93 font for my first blurb option, sized 6pt. After successfully doing this I cut and pasted the styled text onto Illustrator, aligning the text in a different manner to suit my cover design. I repeated this process for the second time on another book cover, but using the font of Apple Chancery sized 5pt. aligned to the left bottom corner of the page.
For my second book cover for street art, I decided to design my front cover on Photoshop before doing anything on Illustrator. I added different effects onto the cover as well as mainly using various brush tools and images to make the cover stand out.
I firstly started with the cover title, choosing the font 'PotagolTC'. I used the liquify tool to change the form of the title, making it slightly asymmetrical so it blended with the cover. I then used the 'splatter' effect tool to change the style of the brush, and made it look as if the background was spray painted in various colors. Some images were also cropped with the quick selection tool, along with a border of colors splattered around them. The images of the tiger, wolf and arrow were searched for non-commercial purposes only. I changed them by applying a variety of effects to make them my original design.
For my third book cover, I firstly used Photoshop to edit the front cover by using the quick selection tool to place images onto the background. I also painted a few of the images in relation to the cover. I used the warp tool to change the arch of the title for a better effect. It was then styled using the blend options, with the font of Ebrima.
I think that I prefer the Graffiti book cover as I learnt how to use new tools in the process of creating it. It also stands out really well, however my second book cover of Street Art stands out really well as I decided to use many colors on it. I also spent a lot of time on creating the front cover in Photoshop, using different tools for different effects. I mainly used the tools I learnt to use throughout the lessons, such as the warp tool, pen tool, color selection, and how to style headings or text in different ways. I also learnt how to use the quick selection and lasso tool, and adding different effects onto covers or pictures such as the dispersion effect, among others related to photography editing.
