Design a Book Cover - Affinity Publisher Basics
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Learn how to design a beautiful Book Cover. I will show you:
- how to choose the right photo
- combine fonts in a nice way
- where to find free fonts for commercial use
- tips and tricks for cover design
- design a simple and beautiful cover
- find the right colors to make it all come together
Resources:
www.1001fonts.com/
www.dafont.com/search.php?q=b...
unsplash.com/photos/08bOYnH_r_E
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Mag. Olivio Sarikas is a professional Designer from Vienna Austria. He has been a passionate Artist for over 26 Years, starting at the age of 16 with his creative education. He studied at the University for fine Arts in Vienna and Munich and holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He works as a self-employed Web & Print Designer. Occasionally he also gives Lectures on Marketing and Community Building at the local University.
Hi Channel focuses around tutorials for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher and occasionally other Software tools like Krita, Corel Software, the NIK Collection and more.
Olivio is famous for his "Secret Sauce", always trying to introduces some Pro Tricks into his tutorials and give a bit more background information. Also his "Creative Chats" are part of this channel, where he gives insights into the creative life and talks about how to improve your creative flow and realize your creative dreams to share them with the world. - Jak na to + styl
I’m not graphic designer and I don’t really want to study it, but its amazing how you can create this kind of works with simple tools. Thank you for your video, congratulations pal.
I'm a graphic designer; it is always good to see what other designers are doing. This was a great tutorial. Beautifully put together.
I'm just starting to discover your videos, and I really appreciate your simplified teaching approach for newbies like me. Thank you for this.
This is very helpful! Thank you so much for making this tutorial!!!!
Very useful tutorial! I enjoyed it very much! Thank you! 🙂
Thank you again, Olivio. Your videos are a great inspiration for my activity.
You are welcome, Francesco :)
Helpful tutorial, thank you. When you designated the document as Print, I was hoping it would include front, spine, and back. Getting the graphics to blend nicely between those three components can be a challenge.
This tutorial is very very clear, so i like it so much
WOW! ITS AMAZING
Brilliant Video. I have been given the task to design our Charity company Newsletter and your design tips will hopefully reach my brain cells for our first christmas release ! Thanks..
LOVE IT SOOOO MUCHHHH
great tutorial and thanks.
Very helpful dear. thanks
Thank you very much. Very helpful as I am currently working on my book cover. 😊💕
Happy i could help, Marsha :)
excellent video!
I really enjoyed following along with this tutorial, but it took me forever to find the perfect food photo. I must have changed my mind 20 times. Will post my attempt on Reddit shortly.
You and me both, Nicola. As a matter of fact, searching for these photos and finding the right fonts takes a considerable time of any design project - especially if you then also need to check with your customer if you like that. That why i sit down with my customers to find the right pic together. saves a ton of mails ;)
Very nice, @Olivio!
Thank you, Eric :)
Great tips thank you!
Thank you, centrino :)
Very nicely did . very learning. Thanks
My pleasure
Lovely
Excellent video. I have found no one give this kind of book cover design and tips like you. Thanks
A fiction cover tutorial would be handy. Although they are more difficult.
Would love to see a part 2... creating a 3D look of the book for marketing purposes. (Ever seen the ones where a stack of the books is laying down so you see the spines, and one upright on an angle? Its awesome look.)
Once you have your cover image, there are a number of generators and templates online for creating bundles and mock-ups. Check out covervault.com/ and diybookcovers.com/ as a starting point.
Good Idea, Luxxen, i will. Thank you David for the Links :)
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! It was very helpful and easy to follow :)
My question is: What about the back of the book? I was trying to upload a cover to amazons kdp for a hardcover book and cover + back seem to be expected as one for that. Do you know what I mean? How do I do that?
Interesting tutorial. I create my own book covers, but I usually use 3d rendered images for the actual artwork, with any layout.post rendering fixes in Affinity Photo.
Thank you David. With your own 3D renderings? nice!
very nice and inspiring tutorial as usual.
Thank you, nadeem :)
The photo you used is in RGB will you change it to CMYK before you print it. Or let the printer change it.
Clearly !
Please more 😉
Thank you, Formel, i'm planing to do so. :)
Gradient beard 👍
Lol - 50 shades of fading out ;)
Affinity look so promising but I haven’t been able to create anything with this software is such a disappointment that I’m wondering whether or not my software is faulty
Lol as a fellow designer I knew the "in very very extreme circumstances you can use a third font" was coming from a mile away haha
The good old golden Rules. Don't we all get them hammered in at school 😋🙏
Do you know how to resize an image with specific measurements? For example, I want to resize a large image to 256 x 400. How can I do that on Affinity Photo?
actually i would simply create a 256 x 400 canvas and then drag the image into it. Much simpler and hustle free :)
You can upload the design in social medias? For example, to show the cover on instagram?
Sure, you can export them as a jpg or png to show them on any page. however i would place that into a picture with the right dimensions of that website to show it exactly the way i want. for example images on instagram are square, while they are rectangle on facebook
@@OlivioSarikas thanks!
Very inspiring and full of little precious hints, Oli.
[Aber hast du jemals einen Buchtitel gesehen wie "Von Oliovo Sarikas"? Ich denke, das "By" kannst du dir sparen, wenn die Tatsache, dass es um einen Buchtitel geht, den Autorennamen impliziert.... :P ]
Danke dir :) - Ja, aj, die Deutschen müssen immer meckern. Du hast allerdings recht., Nur der Name hätte gereicht. Ich war da noch im "Buchzitier" Modus wo man Titel von Autor schreibt ;)
@@OlivioSarikas Bin 1/8 Austrier - nicht vergessen, Herr Artifizialrat!
Can I use Affinity photo for the same purpose?
Yes, for the cover you can. For the Layout of a full book with all pages i would not suggest it though
So, the cover can be made in Affinity Photo, as well? Is there a reason to buy Publisher?
publisher is a layout software. so if you also want to design the rest of the book inside or create text over many pages with footnotes and chapters, publisher can help you with that
Hi, when I try to insert the picture, it doesn't stay inside the limit of the paper and it's very small. Help?
... and that is why you always watch the video until the very end. You explained it at 12.45! Great video btw...
Dear Olivio , please tell where I will get free photo book templets. please make video on how to design a photobook with affinity publisher.! thanks in advance. wishing you Merry Christmas in advance.
Have a look at Canva. they have hundreds of book cover designs youi can use
I'd like to do this in Designer....can you show me how, with a back cover too.
How do you add the back cover in this case?
How do you add a spine and a back cover in this tutorial?