Lynda Designing a Book Cover with Nigel French

Join author Nigel French in Designing a Book Cover 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