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

See how a book cover gets made in just 2 minutes! Visit http://www.orbitbooks.net and http://www.gailcarriger.com for more.

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• art
• design
• steampunk
• sff
• science fiction
• fantasy
• urban fantasy
• orbit
• gail carriger
• book design

[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.

[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.

[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)

[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.

[arup02]

@danielbsmith oh, thanks man.