How to design booklet cover [5] : Content and Cover

How to design booklet cover [5] : Content and Cover

Since, my booklet was created due to the concert event.
My booklet cover must be related to the concert theme.

Main theme : Infinite Love :)
This concert was held during February, the valentine period.

So...
Today's post will be on content, theme color and how to design booklet cover.
[If you were to design a black and white booklet cover, you can skip this post :P]

I prefer http://www.colourlovers.com/ for useful tool in selecting theme color

Explore through the website
And you will see how useful it is!

With this website, you can search the color palette based on your theme by search function.
This website won't give you one color and let you match by yourself.
But a palette of color that was mixed and match, a lot easier and reduce time in working!

What you can search in this website :

•  Color name : Name that doesn't based on color theory but the feeling
• ex. if you search 'love', result will be a red or pink one. while searching for 'sea' will give you a nice turquoise :)
• Hexadecimal Color Code : If you have your desire color that you wanna use in your work but have no idea what color to match. You can input your hexadecimal code [obtained from PS] into this website and it will give you a hundred of matches sample.

• Trends and Popularity in using palettes of the website.
• Printing sample : A nice sample design based on color you choose.
• Pattern : A background for your printing based on color you choose.

Grab your color palette!
Then, used it in your design.

If you need to work with this palette you choose for several times.
You may save your color using color ans swatch function.

First of all, open swatch panel by...
Open PS > Tool panel in the title bar > Window > Tick right mark on Swatches

Then, the swatches box will appear in you right hand side panel looks like this >

If I were to used this palette >>

rarity of salvation

I could grab my favorite color from http://www.colourlovers.com/ by clicking on desired palette.
And the website will give me a hexadecimal code needed in PS.

To input by hexadecimal color code in PS :

Now, your foreground color will set to your input color.

With this, we can use create swatch function to save the color.

Click on the red shaded button.

Only one click, your color will be saved.

Repeat the first step, if you want to save multiple color.

That's it for color and content.

Hope it will be useful!

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