Practical lesson task  (1 day)

• Design a book cover for one of the following:
  a.) “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin: use complementary colours to express anguish and uncertainty.
  b.) “Animal Farm” by George Orwell: use analogous colours with a contrasting accent to express disagreement and discontent.
  c.) “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett: use secondary colours to express naivety, honesty and harmony.
• The book cover must contain the title and the author’s name.
• You must clearly make use of colour to express the desired effects.

I chose “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this was a simple choice because of the book itself and the colors I had to use. I haven’t read the book, but I do remember that I’ve seen the movie from 1993. I searched on google to find some photos that could work with the colors and start working on putting them together to one photo.

It was a bit back and forth on how I wanted the finish result to be but I’m happy with how it turned out. I posted a few progressions photos on the forum to get feedback so I could improve the design.

The secondary colors I used was different shades of greens and purples.

And here are the photos that I used to make it. I used the first photo as the main background. The second photo with the wisteria I scaled down to fit in the top of the oval, then I erased the parts that I didn’t need and faded it so it barley showed.

The third photo with the lavender I made a new layer and cloned the lavender on to the new layer by painting it on around the stones. This layer I also faded to get the right look.

The last I did on the photo part of the cover was adding the girl and the dog. Here I found a photo, then I masked the girl and the dog and added it to the photo, I also faded this layer to get everything in harmony. I also changed the colors so it was more purple.

I used Photoshop to make the main cover photo.

Then I added the text on the photo in indesign. And here is the final result for the book cover.