2015
Tuts+
Lewis Moorhead
4:30
English

Welcome to this course on Creating a Fantasy Book Cover. In this course you will learn some advanced photo-manipulation techniques to create a very creative fantasy book cover. We'll be combining several stock images into a crazy moss man living in the swampy outlands. Then we'll take a look at how we can prepare the artwork ready for print using Adobe InDesign.

1.Introduction
1.1 Introduction
2.Source Images
2.1 Source Images
3.Creating the Composition
3.1 Document Setup and Foreground
3.2 Adding Our Character
3.3 Adding Pyramids Using Perspective Warp
3.4 Adding Trees, Shadows and Highlights Adjustments
4.Creating Our Moss Man
4.1 Adding Shadows and Fixing the Light Direction
4.3 Adding a Helmet and Green Moss
4.4 Blending Textures
4.5 Dodge and Burn
4.6 Making the Skull Spear
4.7 Creating a Cool Headdress
5.Working on the Scene
5.1 Finishing Off the Headdress and Adding Bushes
5.2 Using Focus Area to Cut Out Our Pet Vulture
5.3 Adding Further Animals
6.Colour Correction
6.1 Creating a Sun Flare
6.2 Finishing Colour Correction and Adding Text
7.Creating Our Print-Ready Artwork
7.1 Adobe InDesign Print-Ready PDF
8.Conclusion
8.1 Course Conclusion

Download File Size:2.65 GB

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