Final production

This is my final production for my FMP

This is the front cover for my book. I took this picture at newton road field. Before I photoshopped it It was they time so I had to do a lot of changes. It's dark enough to look like night, but also bright so that when it prints out it's easy to see.

This cover has given me the most trouble throughout all my FMP work. I had to change lot of it like the day sky to night and that included using tools like Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation to change to make it more darker and to help blend the night sky into the background.

Next printing out, since it looked fine of the screen I thought it would be fine on paper, but turns out it was a lot darker then I realised. In the print copy you couldn't see the blood or the pentagram, which are to key things in the story.

Sio what I need to do was make the cover brighter, Which should be easy only because of the night sky I added in every time I made the cover bright the background would come through on to Conna skin because part of his skin is lighter so it showed more. It took me a while until I used the background eraser and used that to get rid of the black bits on his skin and get the cover bright enough to print out and still see everything. I still wan't happy with the pentagram brightness, so I didn't background copies so that I could cut everything out of the picture leaving the pentagram on the screen and use levels making it bright but still look dark enough.

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 These are the layers from photoshop. This is everyone I did for my cover. They are all in order. Doing the front cover I used the internet for help like getting the day time picture into a nighttime picture. I also used what I was taught in class to help with brightening the blood and pentagram singe as the whole picture went dark so did those two making thwm way to dark so I needed to copy more of the original photo and get rid of most of the icture so that I am left with just the pentagram or the blood.

At the end I was able to make it lighter so that you could see everything with out having bits of the picture nort looking right.

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 This is from InDesign, these are the page to my book. I tried to get them in order as best as I could so this is the nearest. All together I have 81 pages with 15 chapters.

To get the front and the back of the book cover onto InDesign I had to export it then drag the images onto the page I wanted it on. But before I needed to add a frame onto the page so that the photo with go into the frame. Another was the fitting, once the picture was in InDesign the picture was always too big so you could only see the black cloak, so I right click and got onto fitting pressing that the photo turn into the same size as the page just a bit tinier. 

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This is the back of my book. The picture in the back ground is what I took, it from the same place I took my cover picture from. I did darken it a bit but not so much as the front cover. The back has also got the symmetry about the book.

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Final pictures of my book. (paper back)

Frontcover of my book. Reason why the title is red is because I helps it to stand out with the picture being dark and spooky and I think the red goes well with it.

This is the middle of the book. The book has 15 chapters with 22910 words and 81 pages.

 This is the back of my book which has the symmetry as well as the title of the book