One of my favorite books growing up was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, so it was an easy choice for this project since I knew a lot about the story. I decided the focus of my bookcover would be Aslan, the lion, since he was a major part of the story, and I also decided to use the forest setting with a blue tint to reinforce the feeling of the winter. I started with a photo of a forest, resized it, adjusted the brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation, and then added a cool photo filter. For the lion, I copied the lion head from another photo, desaturated it, added a blue tint, turned the opacity down to 75%, refined the edges with feather, and finished the edges by carefully using the eraser tool with several different settings of opacity. I finished my bookcover with a font I found online for the movie version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Narnia BLL. For the font, I chose a dark orange color with a light peach stroke around the outside as a contrasting color to the blue scene.Please click on the bookcover for a larger view.
I love these books too. I read them all when I was a kid, I should read them again as an adult.
ReplyDeleteI think this turned out really nice. I like the all blue feel of the image with the pop of the orange letters. My favorite part is the lion I think he turned out really nice. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind sharing your source for the lion. I have a project he would probably work well with.
I liked when the lion turned out to me nice too!
ReplyDeleteI like the image very much but the type, although attractive is too hard to read.
I put the lion on the spine too.
Jon