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Redesigning covers for classic novels is becoming increasingly common in publishing design allowing publishers to market vintage classics to new, younger audiences. I’ve tried to recreate the mood and theme of the book, with collage-style silhouettes of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow-one filled with an image of floral-printed china, to represent peace and domesticity and the other filled with a military-style map of Prussia, to represent war. In this tutorial we’ll look at giving Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace a modern makeover.

#ADOBE INDESIGN 8 X 5.5 BOOKLET TEMPLATE FULL#

You should expand the duplicate page using the Page Tool, and expand it to the full width of the cover, including both front and back cover widths and a spine width (we’ll look at this in more detail below).Duplicate the front page, and keep the original as a stand-alone front cover-this will be useful for online promo shots, and eBook covers.This will allow you to visualise the arrangement of type and images, and judge how well elements are centered on the page. It’s always best to design the front of your cover only first, before you create a full cover, with spine and back.

As an example, we’ll redesign a paperback cover for War & Peace, and give it a distinctively modern design.īefore we delve into designing our paperback cover for War & Peace, here are a few top tips for creating book covers in Adobe InDesign: Design a Paperback Book Cover in InDesign: Tutorial In this simple-to-follow tutorial you’ll learn how to create a full paperback book cover in Adobe InDesign, and take away a template for using with other cover projects.

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