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35 Amazing Book Covers From 2011

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“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is one of the earliest adages we learn as children. Looking at these covers, however, is enough to …

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December 21, 2011 at 4:00 pm Comments (0)

How To Create a Retro Style Superman Book Cover

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Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a retro style book cover featuring a stylized vector illustration of Superman. We’ll create the Superman illustration with simple vector shapes before laying out the complete retro style book cover with textures in Photoshop. The design we’ll be creating has similar traits to old [...]

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June 6, 2011 at 6:00 am Comments (0)

How To Create a Dramatic Action Scene in Photoshop

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I’ve recently been admiring the book covers of those military action thrillers, you know – Andy McNab and the like? So I decided to have a go at designing my own dramatic war torn scene in a similar style. Follow this step by step photo manipulation tutorial where we’ll be using stock photos, textures and [...]

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April 18, 2011 at 6:00 am Comments (0)