Welcome to day six of Thingadailies!
Today I continue to pretend that I know what I'm doing with book cover design. But first!
Gnocchi
I'm in my office and I hadn't taken any other pictures today, so Gnocchi gets to be my foster cat of the day. She was stretching when I caught this photo and I wish I'd managed to get her tail in the frame. Oh well. She's a great cat.
Back to the Thing
I learned how to curve text in Affinity, so that's what I did with the first part of the title. Then I decided it needed an extra pop of color, so I added the frame under the series name. Again, I'm trying to make a template of sorts so the books all look like they belong together, and I think that will help.
I need to check the centering — I find that it's harder to center things correctly in Affinity than it was in InDesign, but I'll add some guides and fix it.
And now it's time to do a bunch of medical stuff for Lulu, so I'll leave this here. My plan is to create a couple more in the series before I finalize any of them so I can figure out what works and what doesn't.
2 comments:
What a little furball, hair all sticking up on end! What made you decide to try affinity instead of InDesign? I switched to something or other for my latest cover and was too frustrated to keep going. I ended up back on my old computer, old software. These graphics packages have such a huge learning curve.
I had an InDesign subscription for a couple years, but I despise the subscription model, so I eventually switched over to Affinity, which was a one-time purchase at the time. (Also, every time I used InDesign, the GUI had changed, so I was constantly trying to figure out where the features were.)
Affinity 3 is free, so you can't beat the price. The AI features require a paid Canva subscription, but I don't want that anyhow. This version has everything in one application: vector graphics, photomanipulation, and layout. There is definitely a learning curve, but now that it has been out a few months, there are tutorials for most things.
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