How to design booklet cover [3]

How to design booklet cover [3] : Set the color!

After you made a decision of how your work will be printed.
The next step of how to design booklet cover will be on how to set the color.

Tool  :

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign :)

version is not specified but CS3 and above will be better 

I'm using both of them in CS5 ver.

What color you need to be set?

I'm not talking about the color in your work/design.

But the colors of ink that need to be used.

The following covers are comparison of each type of color

Bitmap - black and white for xerox process

CMYK - for normal colored printing

Grayscale - normal black and white printing

You can see the different between these 3 process :D

Normally, printing business used CMYK.

CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

combination of these colors resulted a nice colored book

You may think that why don't we use gray scale to print a black and white work and just xerox it.

The answer is xerox process has low resolution and will not be able to print a detailed grayscale.

HOW TO SET >>

You can select the color from Color Mode:

select it based on your artwork!

Define the resolution also important...

300 pixels/inch suits for printed work.

while 72 pixels/inch suits for web design and computer graphic.

That's it for selecting color!

It isn't the end of how to design booklet cover.

Keep following for an update.

Sweet time at After You~

Another day for CREPE and sweet

Matcha Mille Crepe at After You
La Villa Ari

A very soft crepe cake with matcha green tea smell
Soften a bitter taste of green tea by sweet whipped cream and honey on the top.
Adding up a joy by chocolate truffle hehehe :D


Here's a snapshot.

Map :)
I went by BTS. fast and comfortable


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How to design booklet cover [2]

How to design booklet cover [2] : Tool

Today, I'm gonna show you a tool and resource for design your booklet cover :D

Have you ever heard the quote says

Good Designers Copy,

Great Designers Steal

one of the simplest trick using to develop your designing skill.
Follow these steps to design booklet cover:-

1. Building up your work from the same foundation as a well-created one.
2. And let your ideas flow.
3. Then, you just add your ideas into your new work.

Positive side effect of copying : familiarity to end users.Increasing readabilty. Reduce time wasted in waiting for 'inspiration'

As time passed by, your design skill will be upgraded!

And what source to see a well-created one...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

A ton of sample.
What you need to do is search through the web.
b/c there're a lot of article which sometimes related and not related to our works :)

If you need a tip, this website helps a lot!

http://www.deviantart.com/

Shared artwork/illustration website.

See Designs/Interfaces for a well-created one

That's it!

But, this is not the end of how to design booklet cover.

Keep following for an update!

Another one day out~

      Having lunch with p'mink at greyhound cafe. :D

How to design booklet cover [1]

I'm back!!

2 days without internet were painful...
I still don't have internet at my dorm. Update is available only day time.
Wish my internet come back as soon as possible :'(

Let's take a break with a font.
Today, i'm gonna show you my oldwork and what behind the scene.

By the way, I'm a member of Thammasat University Symphony Orchestra :D

I'm taking part in designing a booklet for each concert booklet, poster, brochure and some other ads.

The booklet that i'm going to introduce you also my work from last concert

A booklet that i'm gonna show how it's being done

Closed up 

So...

Let's begin!

HOW TO DESIGN BOOKLET COVER in 10 mins.

using Adobe Photoshop and Indesign.

First, you need to know about your printing.
You need to ask yourself these question

• What is the size of your printing?
• This will effect a lot in arranging texts and design a layout [This is essential! This will make suck content into something more interesting]

• What kind of paper?
• Different kind of paper, different color of paper [ex. green read, glossy, A4, colored paper] resulted different effect. With the same design and color, printed in different paper, some part of your artwork will be a thing called 'disaster'

• Used color?
• CMYK or Black and White need to be decided before designing process
• Targeted Group & Content
• When you're going to design anything, you need to know the content. Content and artwork must go in the same direction. 
• ex. Wedding ceremony booklet cover is a black and white and some sad design
• Targeted group must be defined. People with different cultures or ages have different readability, layout and text arranging must be different.

This is first thing in how to design booklet cover. Decision is very important!

In  next post, I will show you a tool, source to design a booklet cover

Vanilla Industry

I just went to Vanilla Industry :D

English Style Cafe
nice location, nice atmosphere
of course, yummy

I had a French Crepe and Crepe Cake.
Regret of didn't take a shot.
just realized of this mistake after finish all >w<"""

map

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WTF = What The Font!? [1]

Font[typeface] is in everywhere!

different font with different feeling.

...and WHAT THE FONT i am looking at it now.

Have you ever seen a font you love [and want to have it] but couldn't identify what font it is?

Argh... It's a FONT.

How can I identify it by just looking at them?

Just tell me the name and I will go google.

Well, I will tell you how to identify different type of font.

Serif

Serif typeface refer to the font which has a small lines that attached to the body of the font.

It usually used a copy of formal document, printed, and also a document online. 

Serif is prefer in readablity and formal feeling but not in a big block of copy or advertising.

A well-known serif typeface is TIMES NEW ROMAN.

That's it for a serif. 

Others will coming soon.

Keep following for updates!