Digital Workshop: Concept/Front Cover & Flipbook

 Today in this workshop I will be creating a concept board and front cover for my project this term, I will be doing this in Photoshop.

I have opened Photoshop, and I will start by making a canvas I did this by just clicking on 'File' in the top menu and 'New', I then clicked on Print in the top menu of the dialog box and then I chose A4/A3 in portrait orientation I checked it was 300 resolution and it had a white background. I then clicked 'create' 

I then wanted to add an image as the background for my cover/concept board.  I chose an image from imsplash, downloaded as teh largest size.  I then went back to Photoshop and clicked on 'File' in the top menu and then 'Open' I then selected the image by clicking on 'Select' in the top menu and then 'Select All' I then clicked on 'Edit' in the top menu and 'Copy' and then I went back to my canvas and clicked 'Edit' and then 'Paste'.  I then used transform controls to pull the image over my canvas and completed it by clicking on the move tool in the tools menu. 

My next step was to add text so I clicked on the 'T' tool in the tools menu.  I then clicked on the canvas and changed the font that suited my collection the case of the design board and a different font for the bookcover.  

Design Board font was Georgia at 72pts for the title and 48pts for the subtitle. 

The Book Cover was Bell MT 36pts for title and name

I used the move tool and gridlines to get these into the correct position. 

I then added an image and began writing my concept for the collection using the same font and consistent text.  I also could add a logo here.

Will add an image when back in the Digital Arts room!

With the book cover, I saved this as a PSD and jpeg file onto my desktop.  I then opened Google Docs and opened a new file.  I went to insert the image and uploaded it onto my first page. I then went to the second page, went to the bottom, and added the copyright.  I added the copyright symbol by clicking on insert in the top menu and then special characters and then I searched for the copyright symbol.

I also added page numbers by going to format in the top menu and then in the box I unclicked show on the first page and chose the footer for the page numbers.  

I then left a blank page and on the next page I added the text . On the last page, I added picture credits.

To finish I have completed a mock-up of my FlipBook