From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Splitting images for the covers
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Splitting images for the covers
- [Instructor] Okay, let's work a little bit then with this image. Now, what I'd like to do here is have this so that, on the back cover, half of it here is actually on the left-hand side. And on the front cover, on the right-hand side. And you can imagine that that's kind of working as if it's almost wrapping around all of the pages there. At least that's my thinking. So, I'll need two copies of this. And by the way, they're going to be moving into the page either side of them. So in this case, page one. Okay, the image will be moving into there. And also similarly on the other side. So what I want to do first then is to go ahead and just adjust the frame a little bit. So I'm going to bring the frame in until it's just about touching the contents. Now, if you look carefully, you can see that, I think, that's an artichoke or something at the top there. Okay, I'm not entirely sure, (chuckles) but there you go. I've got…
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Project overview1m 5s
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Document setup5m 28s
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Setting margins5m 15s
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Adding guides2m 49s
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Challenge: Layout guides2m 31s
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Solution: Layout guides5m 27s
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Choosing and pairing fonts5m 8s
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors4m 46s
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Splitting images for the covers3m 42s
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Creating tints for the cover flaps5m 40s
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Adding image content5m 23s
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Importing and organizing text5m 31s
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Styling the title block7m 30s
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Styling the cover quote6m 4s
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Optical margin alignment3m 38s
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Setting the back cover text6m 53s
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Adding character style overrides3m 45s
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Challenge: Set flap texts54s
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Solution: Set flap texts4m 32s
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Creating the spine content4m 27s
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Adding the publisher's assets5m 25s
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Exporting assets3m 14s
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Creating a print finish5m 54s
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