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composition, Cover Art, Cover design, Desire, golden ratio, Keith Draws, P.T. Michelle, Photo compositiing, Photoshop, Vampire
26 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted Book cover, Composition, Fantasy art, golden ratio, Illustration., Photo compositing, Photoshop, Typography
inTags
composition, Cover Art, Cover design, Desire, golden ratio, Keith Draws, P.T. Michelle, Photo compositiing, Photoshop, Vampire
14 Tuesday Jan 2014
Posted Composition, Photo compositing, Photoshop, The Rule of Thirds, Typography
inApparently my cover for “The Island” by Teri Hall is breathtaking.
See the actual post here
30 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted Composition, E book sizes, General, Photoshop
inTags
Apple iBook, Barnes and Nobel, Book Baby, book cover, composition, Cover Art, Cover design, Keith Draws, kindle, Kobo, Lulu, Smash Words
I’ve noticed that finding the correct format for an e-book cover is not exactly easy. Even if you manage to find a guide on the publishing website you intend to use you soon find the documents are filled with jargon and useless information that serves only to confuse. So what I’ve done is break it down to the essential information. Please remember though that some of these formats are quite different from each other and I’d recommend you tweak your cover layout somewhat for each one. If I have missed any format out please let me know and I’ll add it. So in no particular order here is the only information you actually need:
Aspect ratio:1.2
Image size: 600 pixels wide 730 pixels high.
DPI: 100
File size limit: 2 MB
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
Aspect ratio:1.6
Image size: 2820 x 4500 pixels (previously 1563 x 2500 pixels)
DPI: 72
File size limit: no limit specified
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
Aspect ratio:1.5
Image size: 1600 pixels wide x 2400 pixels high
DPI: 72
File size limit: 2MB
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
Aspect ratio:1.3
Image size: 612 pixels wide x 792 pixels high
DPI: 72
File size limit: 2 million pixels
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
You need two covers for Apple.
1. Sales image:
Aspect ratio:1.6
Image size: 1563 pixels wide x 2500 pixels high.
DPI: 72
File size limit: none
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
2. Internal cover (you can just reduce the sales image by 70% for this)
Aspect ratio:1.6
Image size: 1094 pixels wide x 1750 pixels high.
DPI: 72
File size limit: 2 million pixels
Format: JPG (Maximum quality should not take the file size over the limit)
If anybody finds anything to be incorrect please let me know in the comments. As far as I am aware these sizes are correct but it won’t hurt to double-check for yourself.
03 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted Composition, Photoshop, Typograpghy, Typography, Typography
in02 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted General, Photo compositing, Photoshop
inThis is a great video tutorial on creating a cut out mask for hair.
And this is even better:
17 Monday Sep 2012
Posted General, Photo compositing, Photoshop
in3D Buzz is happy to announce that the Photoshop CS6 Fundamentals class that was made freely available to the general public is now available for download… free to all!
You can find the download links here:
http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?193870
I’ll be going through these, you can never know enough.
03 Monday Sep 2012
Posted Photo compositing, Photoshop
inTags
book cover, cd cover, Cover Art, Cover design, illustration, Keith Draws, kindle, layout, Photo compositiing
This Video is great for a beginner, to learn some basic techniques in photo compositing. Though it’s not mentioned in here I also recommend you get used to working at a minimum of 450 dpi at actual size. When your work is printed it will usually be at 300 dpi, so you will be working at a higher resolution. This is standard practice, and means that you work will be reduced in size when it’s finally printed. The reduction will improve the quality.