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Aim: What Photoshop tools will I use to design my book cover?

Mr. SpaterellaTechnology Nov. 12

Getting to Know Font Families

Each Font Family represents a complete set of characters, letters and symbols for a particular typeface. Font families are divided into 3 categories: Serif, Sans Serif and symbol.

Serif Fonts have a tail or stroke which makes it easier for the eye to recognize words.

Sans Serif Fonts do not have tails and are commonly used in headlines.

Each Font Family represents a complete set of characters, letters and symbols for a particular typeface. Font families are divided into 3 categories: Serif, Sans Serif and symbol.

Serif Fonts have a tail or stroke which makes it easier for the eye to recognize words.

Sans Serif Fonts do not have tails and are commonly used in headlines.

Getting to Know The Characters Palette

The character palette helps you manually or automatically control type properties such as kearning, tracking and leading. You open the character palette from the options bar by selecting ‘Window’.

The character palette helps you manually or automatically control type properties such as kearning, tracking and leading. You open the character palette from the options bar by selecting ‘Window’.

Font Family Font Style

Font Size

Set Kearning

Vertical Scale

Leading

Tracking

Horizontal Scale

Getting to Know The Characters Palette

Leading: the amount of space between two lines of type

Kearning: Controls the amount of space between characters and can effect a word or an entire paragraph

Tracking: inserts uniform amount of space between selected characters

Baseline shift: The vertical distance the type moves from its baseline

Leading: the amount of space between two lines of type

Kearning: Controls the amount of space between characters and can effect a word or an entire paragraph

Tracking: inserts uniform amount of space between selected characters

Baseline shift: The vertical distance the type moves from its baseline

Getting to Know The Option Bar

Font Family Font Style Font Size Font Color

Words can express an idea, but the appearance of the type is what drives the point home. After you create the type you can experiment with its appearance by changing its font, size, and color. You can also apply special effects that make it stand out, or appear to pop off the page.

Creating Special Effects with Type

Creating Warped Text

Creating Text On A Path

Suppose you want type to conform to a shape, such as an oval or a free-form you’ve drawn? No problem, just create the shape and add the text.

1. Create the shape using one of Photoshops shape tools2. Add type to a shape by clicking on the horizontal type tool3. When the pointer nears the path, you’ll see that it changes to the

type tool pointer4. Click the path when the Type Tool pointer displays and begin

typing

Book Cover Design

ASSIGNMENT: Design Book Cover

1. What is a book cover? What is it used for? What kind of information must be included on it? Think of these questions as you create sketches for an original book cover design. Your sketches are your method of visual brainstorming. They can be as tight (detailed and carefully rendered) or as rough (simple shapes, figures) as you want. The sketches can include words and other notations.

2. Once you decide on a sketch, start to acquire the necessary photographs & images for your book cover.

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Examples

Book Cover Design Specifications Criteria

Open New DocumentSize: 5” x 7”Color: RGB Resolution: 300

Include the author – you. It is not necessary to write ‘by’ before the author’s name.

The final art will be printed in color. Include your sketches when you hand in your project

Save Project as: “YourName.Book.Pd2”