The Making of a Book Cover: BLAMELESS, by Gail Carriger

[wan2773]

Nice...Wondering what the soundtrack is...

[azahari2]

its great to design a book cover using photoshop, what i've seen give me more inspiration to came out with a great design! (if client give more time though). I do have my cover design gallery on squidoo at choose-the-book-cover . But most of my book cover design done using Adobe Illustrator and stock imagery.

[yovillianify]

I took tons of pictures with my digital camera.. they are all owned and copyrighted to me. I sent about 300 pictures in to some school art project where they were all welcome to use any of my pictures how they seen fit. there are people that would put photos online to some sites that are royalty free.. any other photo though that don't state that it's free for the taking is OFF LIMITS. the copyright belongs to the artist or photographer.

[comedycrash2]

i need to meet the person who made this

[m7md686]

iswydt

[Catandthespoon]

This was too fast for me to learn anything

[ditavee]

Hehe, the crappily pasted in horse and carts on this cover have always bothered me, quite funny seeing those elements being done ( yes I'm a cover and PS geek, if there's a mistake or poor job i'll find it). Fascinating to watch but would have been great if this was a little slower so we could really see the work.

[AtomicSushi92130]

WHAT MUSIC IS IT ? (pliz)

[arup02]

Someone can explain how he do that at 1:30? How do you remove things and let the background?

[danielbsmith]

@arup02 Layers, dude. The cloud and the cityscape were on separate layers. He had the cityscape selected, deleted the tower, and you saw the clouds appear. The clouds are on a layer behind the cityscape.

[arup02]

@danielbsmith oh, thanks man.

[Timelord2067]

I don't know why some posters are stressing out about the Eiffel Tower being removed - IT HADN'T BEEN BUILT YET!

As to the actual video, the only thing missing was a time code to show how many hours (days?) The actual composition took. A fascinating insight into a rarely thought about craft.

But why the goofy titles fonts?

[Kikkies68]

Oh my God, that gargoyle looks just like the gargoyle on the cover of The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison.

[veritylane]

Photomanip and clipart is the AUTOTUNE of the art world!

[ChasBrock]

@veritylane I disagree. First off almost all packaging and advertising art work is produced in this way. Second there are very tight budgets on these projects, which means you have to be resourceful. This, after all, isn't fine art it is graphic design. Not the same thing at all. Being a fine artist is easy. Graphic design is hard. You actually have to answer to a client and be a problem solver.

[TheSimsKastalos]

its too fast



[illucid8te]

Very cool :) What is the music ? It works really well.

[cheezecakeV2]

Amazing.

[JeffEmmersonWriter]

Fabulous! As the author of a powerful, gritty memoir to be published early next year, I very much appreciate this!

- Jeff Emmerson (Google Me)

[Thialeana]

I really liked this. It was fun watching someone else do everything I just basically learned in my graphic design classes at college. Thanks for posting!

[kittycatcarley]

What are the fonts used here?

[bubberdub]

you are amazing.

[kittycatcarley]

This is way cool.

[TheRosieposie24]

What do yo use to create this????? A website??? Software??? What, please???

[Rmicic]

@TheRosieposie24 Knowledge.

[TheRosieposie24]

@Rmicic ..... Wow, jeez thanks... I meant like a program

[kittycatcarley]

@TheRosieposie24 Photoshop honeybun

[TimeshipStudio]

OUTSTANDING! We've featured you on our network. Thanks!

[thelukeandrews]

@ gookyking.. c'mon flipping an image is fine, as long as it's one of those ones that still look right (some just look weird for some reason, and I dont mean ones with type in them) Better that than having a screwy layout or compromising on the choice of image!!

[PoetaMatrice1]

what song is this?

[markstrain25]

is there anywhere with a realtime version of this ?

[agdmphoto]

@markstrain25 i suspect that no video service except a self hosted solution would allow you to upload the real time speed version of this video.

It certainly will be a couple hours long.

[Rosewrayth]

wow, awesome vid, i am curious though, what was the music used?

[Scirroccos]

What's the music on this?

[lastinlineband1]

This is a fascinating video thanks for positing it. I don't go into so much photo manipulation when I design my book covers. I thought I'd post a video response about a book I designed about violin makers.

[FlitterGuy]

Very nicely done!

Greg Sutter

[gookyking]

tut tut...flipping the picture! Thats a no-no in my book!

[Rosewrayth]

@gookyking why? and in what circumstances?

[solidus1985]

Wow, people who say using stock imagery is a cop out should try being a graphic designer. What if they designer wants a picture of the eiffel tower in the project? Are you telling me you'll fly to Paris to take a photo of the tower then fly back. Oh, but wait! You're taking a picture of art that was made by someone else, I guess you'll have to design your own eiffel tower. Maybe you'll just buy a stock photo for a few bucks, no? Cop out, get real.

[TeeveesBella]

Absolutely adore this series, and loved getting to see the process for designing one of the covers.

[sayyayp]

Does anyone know what the music credit is?

[shafer9]

Dude, if everyone stopped using stock pics, the advertising/design business would grind to a halt.

And like the above comment, it's all about how you use it.

[Bukyxa]

Appropriation is the key word here. That's what we do as Graphic designers... New ideas come from different places different images... Great work, great process.

[milou66]

haha. the tower wasn't built yet, but autogyros were a common site over paris.

[tylerttinsley]

@milou66 thats why they hated the tower, all the auto gyros crashed into it.

[AdstoreDC]

This is a lesson to everyone who thinks this is easy.

[aalbc]

This is simply magnificent

[TheFaintdreams]

Fascinating, and very entertaining. Would very much like to see some of tha finer details a little slower though, so as to better appreciate (and understand) all the hard work that went into the final product

[AbstractLucidity]

Great vid!

[enini83]

it's a good video and fun to look at (well done!) but it is really much to fast. you should slow it down.

[crimsongoatee19]

love step two haha

[nubsx]

fuck it, u're awesome

[The13thModel]

I'm hoping you drew/painted all that yourself. Or else we have a biiiiiiiiiiig case of plagiarism on our hands xD

[cameronrad1]

It's called Stock Imagery...

[The13thModel]

@cameronrad1

It's still not his art. How would you like it if someone took all your art and put it into their book cover? I bet you would hate it, I know I would. I suppose if they gave credit it would be fine, but still it's better to do your own work, or else you're just a jerk.

[cameronrad1]

You don't know a lot about stock imagery do you?

The photographer has agreed to have his picture used as stock imagery. It's not plagiarism at all.

If someone took my art without my permission I'd be mad, but the artist (photographer) agreed to these terms. He's still getting paid. Many images you see in magazines are stock photos. They are sold by outlets like Getty Images and Corbis

Go to webopedia and search Stock Photo.

[The13thModel]

@cameronrad1

Ah, I see. Well that's perfectly fine, I suppose. But it's not really that much of art is it? I mean that's kind of a cop out to do that, even if you did get permission... any who... case closed I guess, thanks for correcting me!

[cameronrad1]

Look up "The He1z" in google. He's a graphic artist that uses stock imagery in his work. It's all about how you use the image, not the image itself.

[gadafgadaf]

i would so love to learn how to do this. tells me how to learn!

[gadafgadaf]

what programs did you use to make this?

[Katarra]

Looks like regular ol' photoshop to me.

[fwancisBALENCHIA]

DAMN!

[sensismoka]

nicely done my friend

[ChaosWrathX]

Amazing, nice talent

[doglyfe4444]

music?

[mewintle]

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH (by Ilya Kaplan) is the music. The stock images are sky & gargoyle stock images are from Shutterstock and the Ornithopter is from ImageWorks. The model is Donna Ricci. The photography is Tiny Dragon Productions. All of this is on the website linked in the info box as well as lots more info.

[suicidewarpig]

what is that website he goes to for the stock images?

[KamikazeDesigns]

@suicidewarpig shutterstock...google it if you cant find it

[avatarfalcon]

@suicidewarpig Looks to be shutterstock.

[suicidewarpig]

That's it. Thank you.

[lucasgerhard]

muito bom!

[123tubular]

Yes, the music, what is it?

[matthiasvegh]

seconded

[AtomicSushi92130]

nice videa and nice song btw. It's reminds me of the Music bowerstone Market in Fable II

[fettsack3]

@AtomicSushi92130

eraser

[AtomicSushi92130]

excuse me, what did he used from 0:58 to 1:05 in order to make the pixel/aliasing disappear ?

I always wanted to do that but i don't know how !

[fuaath]

he just used the eraser I guess or what you can do is CTRL + Click the layer you and go to modify and contract and then -1.. Hope it helps :)

[jessievoigts]

very cool - love the new cover!!

[TwoFourFixate]

Thank you for this.

I know nothing about the programs you're using, but I'm a fast learner and will take classes.

¿What is the music playing?

[nickhell]

hey, use quicksilver for launching apps and clean that dock lol. Unless your like it that way of course ;)

[quadrangleman]

Good god man, do you have every single app on your machine listed on your dock? Other than that, I pretty much felt like I was watching my very own average workday, right down to TinkerTool.

[cle2]

dude that was amazing I need to try making something like this

[capjbadger]

The first two had a "painted" look to them. This one is much more "photo snapshot". Why the change? It doesn't fit in with the other two covers.