Making Great Title Text for a Book Cover

[@capturedbyaj]

thank you sooooooo much, designing my first cover this week and the font was my issue..with this tutorial I think I got this!! love it!!

[@ericaalexander]

Came here looking for new ideas and was not disappointed. Thank you.

[@hyperbabygames]

Great tutorial. Thanks so much! Used this on my wife's new book.

[@DVSPress]

Glad you found it useful

[@JenGubermanAuthor]

Thanks to your tutorial, I was able to give my book (Deathriser of Darkwood) cover the extra pop it needed. Font styling has never been my strength, but this was easy to follow. Thanks so much!

[@drnol461]

Awesome video! Thanks for all the detail. My mouth dropped open a few times with the cool effects you added.

[@DVSPress]

Thanks for watching

[@eRasputin]

Thank you so much, that really filled in a couple of gaps in my cover typography knowledge.

[@alliearnest5731]

This is so helpful. Thank you for putting this together!

[@silje.on.youtube]

Thank you so so much. This tutorial really made me want to work on bettering my Photoshop skills.

[@AmberDawnD86]

Thank you so much. I use Gimp instead of Photoshop and was able to do most of this with that software. Then I fudged my way through the rest of it and got a pretty decent result.

[@84homey]

That was a great tutorial, thank you.

[@DVSPress]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cascee1028]

Thank you, this is an excellent tutorial. I found it very helpful.

[@VanessaThurgoodBooks]

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@DVSPress]

Thanks for watching!

[@medieval7libran]

Great tutorial!!! Thanks so much!!!

[@DVSPress]

Glad you found it useful!

[@tetsuoswrath]

Very informative. I've wondered about the design of covers and this hit on several things like the fonts and lighting. I really appreciate these videos. :{J

[@wysteriafox2977]

Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed

[@kimfromnewyork]

that is fantastic! thx

[@rienim1071]

Awesome, thanks heaps for this tutorial 🙌🏼😊

[@artfamilystory1391]

Thank you so much! This was really helpful!

[@BruceWayne15325]

Thanks for sharing

[@VahKing]

How do you do the swashes? Is it a font?

[@DVSPress]

Cinzel decorative is the font.

[@xunto.vorlov]

Nice! I can't get how you add letters with swashes though. :D

[@rchuso]

Google had to correct my spelling to "Cinzel Decorative". ;-)

[@kittyalastair745]

Thank you this Sir. 💙

[@jenperry5696]

For some reason, my photoshop doesn't have all those textures/patterns yours has. I have water, trees, and grass. I've tried googling it and I'm not having any luck. Where'd you get all the ones you were looking through? Great video! Thank you so much for the awesome explanations of everything-- this was super helpful! I'm just missing that step :)

[@chrisrieke]

Great video!!!

[@AnyssaMarisa]

I'm not sure if you mentioned anything about font embedding for book cover. How is that done?

[@ShahadatHossain-iz3sv]

Awesome really appreciate.

[@ashleyksks]

What are the name of fonts?

[@DVSPress]

Title font is Cinzel Decorative. Author font is Cormorant.

[@ashleyksks]

Thank you so much for replying in my comment and also for the tutorial ❤

[@09cutie0pie]

don't you need illustrator for typography design and indesign for assembling all of that together?

[@DVSPress]

Nope. I do it all in photoshop. You can even edit paths there, but if I were doing stuff like making my own logos or drop caps (which I have done for some books) I might use it for that step. These are standard fonts.

[@09cutie0pie]

@@DVSPress Ok. But doesn't the text look more pixelated as opposed to illustrator (vector program?).

[@DVSPress]

You're not going to see any pixels above 300 DPI, which is the max to printer can do. I usually make my document 600 DPI. All of the text effects are rastered anyway.

[@09cutie0pie]

@@DVSPress Thanks for taking the time to answer. I was always told if i want to make good book covers i need the holy trinity and photoshop is not enough 🙃

[@mlwissing]

Where do you recommend getting fonts at for book covers? I went on photoshop to follow along, and didn't have that font, or metallic texture for the font.

[@DVSPress]

This is a free font. You can get it from 1,001 fonts.

[@priyamohapatra6525]

Is this Adobe Photoshop

[@DVSPress]

Yes. Older version now, though.

[@MarcusAuyrelius]

Hi David, thank you for your video. Question, what do you use (shortcut?) to get an alternative style for a letter while you are typing while using the type tool? I'm using CC2020 and for me it shows alternatives while hovering over a letter after having selected a letter. I like shortcuts so hence my question. I tried looking it up but could not find it so quickly. Thanks.

[@DVSPress]

With this font, uppercase is the alternate, lowercase the standard. With other fonts you can use the glyph tool to find all the alternate letters.

[@MarcusAuyrelius]

@@DVSPress Thanks.

[@Cheesypirate99043]

What version of Photoshop do you use to have access to the font effects? I use Clip Studio Paint and I can't find any of the same kinds of effects here and I was just curious

[@DVSPress]

Standard CC version (I don't remember the version number) should have all of this.

[@BrandonNinja]

Hi, what's the name of the text?

[@UnitedMandrakes]

Cinzel decorative is how you spell it.

[@cringyboring]

Thank you

[@hecatr]

You said somewhere else that you think this book series will stretch to 12 books. How long will each book be?

[@DVSPress]

35-50k is what I'm shooting for.

[@amespointer]

What is the name of this font? I have tried to find it for 2 days. Haha Great video, very helpful!

[@DVSPress]

Cinzel decorative. Don't don't overuse the swash characters though or your title will look very weird and amateurish

[@amespointer]

Thank you!!

[@IsaRamonC]

Is it free for commercial use?

[@charismatic_ceecee]

@@IsaRamonC you can download it on www.dafont.com it is free there.

[@naszia4631]

what apps do you use?

[@DVSPress]

For design? These days, mostly photoshop

[@naszia4631]

@@DVSPress for the font? i search for it but I can't find any

[@colleti6828]

Please, what name the font? I need it :”(

[@DVSPress]

Cinzel decorative

[@colleti6828]

David Stewart Thank you very much ❤️❤️❤️❤️.:”

[@GhanaReset]

Kind of old....but can you reuse the STYLE ?

[@ujfujshtzaphorah3318]

IM A YEAR LATE but anyways thank you so much for this :)

[@iaorty9406]

what's the app you are using?

[@DVSPress]

photoshop