Thanks to your tutorial, I was able to give my book (Deathriser of Darkwood) cover the extra pop it needed. Font styling has never been my strength, but this was easy to follow. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much. I use Gimp instead of Photoshop and was able to do most of this with that software. Then I fudged my way through the rest of it and got a pretty decent result.
Very informative. I've wondered about the design of covers and this hit on several things like the fonts and lighting. I really appreciate these videos. :{J
For some reason, my photoshop doesn't have all those textures/patterns yours has. I have water, trees, and grass. I've tried googling it and I'm not having any luck. Where'd you get all the ones you were looking through? Great video! Thank you so much for the awesome explanations of everything-- this was super helpful! I'm just missing that step :)
Nope. I do it all in photoshop. You can even edit paths there, but if I were doing stuff like making my own logos or drop caps (which I have done for some books) I might use it for that step. These are standard fonts.
You're not going to see any pixels above 300 DPI, which is the max to printer can do. I usually make my document 600 DPI. All of the text effects are rastered anyway.
@@DVSPress Thanks for taking the time to answer. I was always told if i want to make good book covers i need the holy trinity and photoshop is not enough 🙃
Where do you recommend getting fonts at for book covers? I went on photoshop to follow along, and didn't have that font, or metallic texture for the font.
What version of Photoshop do you use to have access to the font effects? I use Clip Studio Paint and I can't find any of the same kinds of effects here and I was just curious
Hi David, thank you for your video. Question, what do you use (shortcut?) to get an alternative style for a letter while you are typing while using the type tool? I'm using CC2020 and for me it shows alternatives while hovering over a letter after having selected a letter. I like shortcuts so hence my question. I tried looking it up but could not find it so quickly. Thanks.