How to design cover with photoshop

Cover design is an important part of book binding design.

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Children's books are lively, and children's illustrations are often used as the main graphics in design, with lively and naive words to form a book cover.

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The format of album books is generally close to a square, generally12,24, etc. , easy to organize pictures.

The common design technique is to choose representative pictures in the album and then match them with words.

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Cultural books are more solemn. In the design, most of the important pictures in the text are used as the main graphics of the cover, and the font of the text is also solemn, mostly bold or song style; The purity and lightness of the overall color are low, and the visual effect is calm to reflect the profound cultural characteristics.

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The design method of the whole series of books is the same, and the title and main graphics of each book change according to the type of introduction.

This is generally a common design technique for the cover of complete sets of books.

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Reference books are generally thick and often used, so hard covers should be used in design to prevent wear and tear; The graphic design of the cover is rigorous, neat and has a strong sense of order.

Book binding design refers to the overall design of books.

It includes many contents, among which cover, title page and illustration design are three main design elements.

Cover design is the facade of book binding design art, which reflects the contents of books through the form of artistic image design.

In today's dazzling sea of books, the cover of books plays the role of silent salesman, and its quality will directly affect people's desire to buy to some extent.

Graphics, colors and words are the three elements of cover design.

Designers organically combine the three according to different properties, uses and readers, so as to show the rich connotation of books and present them to readers in the form of conveying information and aesthetic feeling.

Of course, some cover designs focus on one thing.

For example, the cover design with characters as the main body, at this time, designers can't throw some fonts on the screen at will, otherwise it will only convey information step by step, and can't give people an artistic enjoyment.

Isn't that a failed design, or at least irresponsible behavior to readers?

As we all know, there is no book without readers, and designers must study it carefully.

Designers pay more attention to the form, size, density and layout of fonts, which gives people a sense of rhythm while spreading information.

In addition, the design form of the cover title font must be consistent with the content and readers.

Successful design should be emotional, for example, political reading design should be serious; The design of scientific reading materials should be rigorous; The design of children's sex books should be lively and so on.

A good cover design should be complicated and not chaotic in the arrangement of content, that is, it should have a master and a second, clear hierarchy, simplicity and not emptiness, that is, simple graphics should have content and add some details to enrich it.

For example, do more articles on graphic color, printing and organic decoration design, which will make people have an atmosphere, artistic conception or style after reading it.

Books are not ordinary commodities, but a kind of culture.

Therefore, in cover design, even if it is a line of words, a line of words, an abstract symbol, one or two colors, we must have certain design ideas.

There must be both content and beauty.

appeal to both refined and popular tastes

Title page is the need of the continuous development of modern book binding design.

If a book with good content lacks a title page, it is like a flaw in white jade, which weakens the collection value.

People who love books will cherish a good book and often like to write some epigrams such as sentiment or silence in the book. What a pity if there is no title page in the book at this time.

The title page in the book is like a screen in the facade. With the improvement of people's aesthetics, the quality of the title page is getting better and better, and some use high-quality colored paper; Some also have texture and give off fragrance; Some are accompanied by some decorative patterns or representative illustration designs related to the contents of the book.

For those who love books, these are undoubtedly an unspeakable joy, which also improves the added value of books and attracts more buyers.

With the continuous progress of human culture, people pay more and more attention to the design of the title page. A truly excellent book should carefully design the title page at the front and back of the book to meet the requirements of readers.

Illustration design is an important factor to enliven the content of books.

With it, the reader's imagination and understanding of the content can be fully exerted and an artistic enjoyment can be obtained.

This is especially true for children's books, because children's brains are not well developed and they lack rational understanding of things. Only more illustrations can help them understand and stimulate their interest in reading.

At present, the illustration design in books is mainly creative drafts of art, photography and computer design.

Photographic illustrations are very realistic and undoubtedly popular, but the printing cost is high, and some illustrations are difficult to achieve through photography due to conditions, such as science fiction works. At this time, it is up to art designers to create or computer design.

In some ways, hand-painted works are more artistic, or beyond photography.

In short, each has his own strengths.

In a word, a good book should not only impress readers in attractive form, but also be thought-provoking, which requires designers to have good ideas and creativity, so that book binding and design can form a perfect artistic whole from form to content.