How to Create Book Cover for Photoshop | How To Make a Book Cover Design

How to Create Book Cover for Photoshop | How To Make a Book Cover Design | K.D Ravindu

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Here we discuss how to design a book cover correctly, quickly and easily. Here we will see how to create a book cover in a very simple way.

Although creating a book cover may seem complicated, the technical aspects are actually easier than you might think. Once you learn how to use and position the guides, you'll be making book covers in no time. Of course books come in different sizes, but with the guidelines, you can create a book cover of any size, for any book, with minimal changes. Our book cover uses guidelines for bleeding, cutting, folding (if any) and margins (protected areas).

Before you create a book cover, it's a good idea to ask your printer of choice how much bleed you'll need on the sides, what margins you'll need (if any), and how thick the book will be. We know how thick book spines need to be. The size of the spine varies depending on the number of pages and paper weight, but we'll need information like this before we start so we can make sure the cover fits our book perfectly. It also gives a nice finish to the book cover.

* You can watch the video to get an explanation about this. 👉 Video Link 👈

* Book Cover JPG and PSD Files Free Download Link :-

👉 File Link - 01 👈

* Photos, text and fonts needed for book cover design Free Download Link :-

👉 File Link - 02 👈

The two files needed to create the book cover can be downloaded for free from the two links above.👆

In this case, the information we have for our book is:👇

⚡Bleed: 5mm
⚡Trim Size: 350mm x 230mm
⚡Spine: 30mm

⚡Margins: 5mm
⚡Front and Back covers: 160mm (width) x 230mm (height)

Let's start designing the book cover.

01). Open Photoshop and go to File > New. Name the file as 'New Book Cover'; set the Width to 360mm, the Height to 240mm, the resolution to 300dpi and be sure to have the Color Mode set to CMYK Color and click OK.

02). To start placing guides to mark the Trim Size, go to View > New Guide. Set the Orientation to Vertical, the Position to 5mm and click OK.

03). Again, go to View > New Guide. Set the Orientation to Vertical, the Position to 355mm and click OK.

04). One more time, go to View > New Guide. This time, set the Orientation to Horizontal, the Position to 5mm and click OK.

05). Finally, go to View > New Guide. Set the Orientation to Horizontal, the Position to 235mm and click OK.

06). Now that we have the Trim Size guides ready, following the same procedure keep adding the Vertical and Horizontal guides for the Margins and the Spine. Place Vertical guides at: 10, 160, 165, 170, 190, 195, 200 and 350mm, and Horizontal guides at: 10mm and 230mm.

07). Now that we have the Bleed (red), the Trim Size (yellow lines), the Spine (green). the Front and Back (blue) and the margins/safe areas (light gray lines) ready, it is time to start designing our cover.

08). With the 'New Book Cover' already opened in Photoshop, go to Edit > Fill. From the dropdown menu select 'Color' and in the Color Picker set the color to #0d121a and click OK.

09). Select the Rectangle Tool (U) and be sure to have the tool mode set to Shape in the top bar. Draw a rectangle (no matter the color) of 195mm x 240mm (or 2303px x 2835px) and place it at the top right of the artboard.

10). Go to File > Place. Locate the foliage image in your computer and click on 'Place'.

11). In the top bar, set the 'X' position to 3156px and hit the Enter key on your keyboard to commit the changes.

12). With the image layer selected, go to Layer> Create Clipping Mask.

13). Select the Text Tool (T) and type the author name with a font size of about 110px and place it near the top center of the book cover.

14). Again, grab the Text Tool (T) and type the book name with a font size of 500px and place it centered right below the author's name.

15). Now select the Rectangle Tool (be sure to have the tool mode set to Shape in the top bar) and draw a rectangle of 90mm x 10mm (or 1063px x 118px) and place it centered near the bottom of the book cover.

16). Again, pick the Text Tool (T) and type 'Based on a true story' with a font size of 58px and place it centered in front of the rectangle we did.

17). Also, place the author's name and the book title in the Spine checking that the text do not touch the margin guides we did. In this case, I've used a font size of 178px for the book title and a font size of 58px for the author's name,

18). Draw or paste the Publisher Company logo in the Spine, also taking care that the logo do not exceed the margin guides we did for the spine.

19). Go to File > Place. Locate the Author Photo image in your computer and click on 'Place'. Place the Author Photo centered near the top of the back in a size of about 40mm x 40mm.

20). Select the Text Tool (U) and draw a rectangle of 100mm x 60mm centered in the back cover and below the author photo.

21). In the top bar, choose Helvetica (or any other font you like) with a size of 46px and write a brief description of the book story.

22). Finally, we just need to place the ISBN code. Go to File > Place. Locate the ISBN code image in your computer and click on 'Place'. Place the ISBN centered near the bottom of the back.

23). To make the cover a bit more interesting and attractive to possible readers, you can add a few effects to the text using some masking and shadows to make the words looks like if they were hidden in the foliage.

If you created the book cover as mentioned above, this is how you got your book cover.