I was twelve I found a biography of Mackenzie in the school libraryĪnd read it until it practically fell apart (then I bought my ownĬopy). Tell me stories about “Mackenzie and the hanging tree”, and when My grandfather, a third-generation Canadian, used to To flee for his life to the United States, where he remained in exileįor many years. Rebellion against the colonial government and when it failed he had He became theįirst mayor of the city of Toronto, and in 1837 he led an ill-fated The early 1800s to what was then called Upper Canada. Political agitator who was born in Dundee in 1795 and emigrated in Was inspired by the Scots who settled Canada, and by one Scot in Produce a professional book cover jacket design. Marketing, but they are not powerful enough nor extensive enough to Programs will work for simple and quick things one might use in That! LOL), and other default programs on their computers. Non-designers tend to use Canva, Word (drives me mad to even hear Hobbled by any other so-called design software to attempt to produceĪ book cover design without all that Photoshop has to offer. Photoshop when it comes to the creative process. Other software on the market today can come close to the power of
Line art or vector illustrations as well as logo design. Photographers, and is an extremely powerful tool in creating design.īut there are other software programs that we use in conjunction with The industry standard for all professional designers and (author’s name, back cover copy, etc.) within InDesign, and thenįinally export for printing as a PDF file from InDesign. Thus, I design my artwork (photoīlending, colouring, editing, etc.) in Photoshop, add the typography Program designed for type formatting and the layout of print media in Not to get too technical, but Photoshop is a raster The design, trim size, and the fonts chosen for the layout).Ī final cover design comes together in a layout program by AdobeĬalled InDesign. What the limit of words they can have – each book is unique due to There is no magical word count for a back coverīecause the space available depends on the trim size and what allĮlse the author wishes to have on the back cover (I’ve been asked I also must fit the summary on the back cover – andĪt times, I have to ask an author to trim it down due to the summaryīeing too long. White paper, so it is important that I have that information before Iįit the spine. The final page count of the interior with the thickness of the paper And the width of the spine is calculated by multiplying
Repeated in the same font on both the spine, and if space allows, theīack cover. Spine and through the back-cover area for a nice flow. The front cover design layout, I prefer to wrap the design around the Front cover design takes up the majority of my labour time, but IĬannot take the spine and back cover too lightly either.
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