Evaluation

Final Piece

This is my final book cover piece, that is based around the story, The Fault In Our Stars. I created my final piece using Photoshop.

Final Piece: Work In Progress

For my final piece, I decided to use ink and then scan it into Photoshop to change the colours of the trees. I firstly inked empty and full trees and then scanned them into Photoshop.

I also used ink for the type on my final piece. So I inked out the name of the story in various different ways and then I scanned them into Photoshop and used the ones that fitted well onto my final design.

Once I had scanned my inked drawings into Photoshop, I changed the levels and threshold of the inked drawings that I have created.  When I had done that I started to put the trees onto my final piece to eventually arrange and organise.

When I had placed some of the inked trees onto my final piece, I decided to resize and rearranged the trees on my final piece, to the way that I wanted. Then I started to colour them, so I selected the layer that the tree was on, then I press shift, backspace and then I was able to select the colour I wanted, so I selected the colour green as I thought it would fit in with the theme.

I added in more of my inked drawings of the empty and full trees onto my final piece. I resized them to show the differences of them. I also used the same colour, green, but with different saturations and I also changed the opacity of some of the trees, so that you can see the differences of the trees.

To make sure that I had arranged the trees on the front, I turned off the other layers on Photoshop, so that I could focus on the front of my book cover. I rearranged some of the trees, so that you could see all the different trees and I also changed some of the colours and opacity to make the empty trees protrude and work well together.

I then placed in more of the full trees for the back of the book cover because I want the front to be the unhealthy side(empty trees) and the back the healthy side(full trees). I rearranged, resized and coloured the trees and changed the opacity of some of the trees, so that you can see the differentiation of the trees.

To make the trees work well together and to make the book cover how I wanted it to look and to make it more poetic, I put one of the full trees on the front with the empty trees and one of the empty trees on the back with the rest of the full trees, to make the book cover more poetic.

For the type on my final piece, I places in some type that I created when I was developing my ideas. I filled in the black outline of the name with the colour grey, but I decided not to use hat type as I thought it didn't work well with the test of  my final piece.

I made the calf round our of my book cover black and I changed te hue and saturations of the trees to make them a blue colour, which works well with the black background.

 I also tried a different type, I look on Dafont to find a sans serif type and I changed it to the colours pink to work well with the other colours. But I decided not to use that type as it didn't go with the theme.

For the name of the book, I ised the inked type that I had created and scanned into Photohop and placed the type that fitted with my theme, onto the front of my book cover.

I resized and rearranged the type to fit in within the book cover and I changed the colour of it to red, to make it work with the rest of the book cover.

I changed and rearranged the type to make it work well together and to fit within my book cover design.

For the book flaps, I placed in a phot of John Green and in text boxes I put information about the author. To make the colour of the text (white) more clear I put a black box behind the text and I lowered the opacity of the box slightly, so that you can still see the trees.

For the blurb, I created a circle using the pen tool and I used the text tool to type a blurb about The Fault In Our Stars, into the circle, to make the text stand out, I made a black circle and lowered the opacity of it and placed it behind the text. I also placed in the book publisher, penguin and a barcode.

For the other flap of the book cover, I decided to put reviews on it. I used white text and  to make them more clearer, I placed a black box, with a lowered opacity behind the text on the book flap. I also added some institutional information onto my final piece, by the barcode. I used the same type that I used for the name of the book on the front for the spine of my book cover.

I found a serif typeface from Dafont to use, for the name of the author on my book cover. I placed the name of the author on the spine and the front of my book cover.

Also, I duplicated the book publisher logo, and placed them on the front, back and spine of my book cover.

To finish off my final design, I decided to resize and rearrange the name of the book on the front. I changed the size of it to small and placed it towards the bottom of the front of the book along with the name of the author. I did this because I thought that having the name of the book really big took away from the trees in the background, but having the name of the book smaller, makes the trees in the background protrude and stand out, so that it gives more to the book cover.

This is my final piece, that I created using Photoshop, for The Fault In Our Stars.

Development/Experimention 2

For another development/experimentation I decided to create a draft for my book cover and I used ink. I inked the background with a slightly watered down ink and then I created a draft book cover design out of ink.

Final Draft

This is my final draft. After researching and developing my ideas I have designed this draft, as this is what I want my final book cover piece to look like.

Case Study

Development/Experimentation

For my development and experimentation I decided to use one of my further drafts and add more detailed and design it further. To do this I re-drew my draft and I added more detail to the draft, then I decided to experiment and use watercolour on the while design of my book cover. I used a analogous colour scheme and I used different values and saturation of the colours blue, green and a greeny blue colour. I used this colour scheme on my re-designed draft because I thought that it would fit to the teem and story of The Fault In Our Stars and it the colours work well on my developed draft.