Custom Blog Header Design With a Matching Ebook Cover…Too Fun.

This morning I received a request to quote on a custom blog header with a matching ebook cover. I love these kind of projects. The only spec's I had were "multicolored party graphic background should work just fine."

Okay, wide open empty canvas, let's see what pops out of these little grey cells.

Custom Blog Header

I started out with with a multi-color curtain gradient for my background.

I messed around with the liquify filter until I came up with this.

That was kinda cool, but it's too distracting to put copy on, I needed to soften it up a little, but also needed something else. I went through my artwork collection and found just the thing, an abstract background that I could crop out a small section of.

I took the abstract image and applied as an overlay and got this effect.

That was looking pretty cool, but at this point it didn't say party as much as acid trip. So I needed something like that old ipod commercial with the sillouettes. I went through my graphics collection and found just the thing which I applied with a soft light filter.

Now what should I do for copy?

When you have all the photoshop filter tricks at your fingertips, you have to know when to hold back and this is one of those times.

There is so much going on in the background that you want the copy to be bold enough on its own to stand out.

I went with one of my Letterheadsfonts.com typefaces and chose LHF Esoteric Old Condensed. Bold with serifs with a burgundy stroke outline.

It needed something else, like a tag line, so I contacted the client and asked for something to put on the ebook that I can rework to put on this header.

Here is the final blog header design. He really liked it and so did I.

Custom Ebook Cover Design

I had a little trouble coming up with an ebook cover design I liked. Designing in horizontal format and then trying to make it verticl takes a little bit of doing.

I went through my Photoshop Action Scripts and settled on my 3d Action Script Ebook #2.

This is going to sound weird, but I decided today that I have too many action scripts. It took forever to find this.

Anyway, the action script only takes two steps and takes a flat image like this.

And with one click of the mouse it produces this.

You can check them out here 3D Action Scripts You can orduce professional looking graphics with these quality scripts.

So, there it is. A header and ebook cover and a happy client.

Roy