Book Cover

Learning Goals * Resources

Students will be able to:

• apply colour theory to create the proper mood / feeling for a book cover

• choose fonts to create the proper mood / feeling for a book cover

• use various methods to manipulate images

  • adjustment layers, masking techniques (brush, quick selection, magic wand, subject select), brushes, blend modes, clipping masks, filters

• Pay attention to design

  • Colour theory (What does that colour make you feel?)

  • Rule of Thirds

  • Weight, emphasis, movement, value

  • Visual Hierarchy (Where does your eye travel on the poster? Hopefully from most important to least important!)

  • CRAP (Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximitry)

Student Tasks

• 1. Create a book cover for an urban fantasy, sci-fi, or horror novel. Use ChatGPT to help you come up with a title. This can help generate ideas for your images. 

     • 2:3 Ratio:  (432 x 648 pixels or 6 x 9 inches inches)

     • Use Photoshop, or Photoshop and Illustrator together 

     • See examples below for reference

     • If you want to do something different, run it by the teacher first

     • you must use at least three images or brush layers, and alter all of them in some way (blends, filters, adjustments, ect).

     • to do this well you need to play in Photoshop by trying different blend modes, colours, fonts etc. 

  2. Use Unsplash for images

  3. Complete the assignment (No tutorial!)

  4. Export to .jpeg (File > Export > Save for Web...)

  5. Use the snipping tool to make an image of your layers palette

  6. Upload final image and layers pallet image into an image carousel to your portfolio with the What I've Learned questions

  7. Submit through Google Classroom