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Create a fancy 3D book cover with Gimp

by Marian Heddesheimer

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 14:10
  • Media: Video/mp4
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  • Size: 93 MB
  • Posted: 04/20/2010

Make a fancy 3D style cover for your eBook to show a picture in your online shop or website.

This tutorial is intermediate level. You need to know how to work with layers in gimp. Anyway the video is straight forward and easy to follow. Every step is shown in this screencast, so that everybody who has done first steps with Gimp should be able to understand the whole process.

You create the front, spine and paper of the book in separate layers, then you create a reflection for the front and spine. As a last step you use a box mapping (this is the secret ingredient in this recipe) to create a 3D box from your single layers. As the last finish, you add a perspective shadow and choose a background color to use it as png or jpeg image on your web page.

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Marian Heddesheimer
Marian Heddesheimer
17 lessons
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06/05/2008

PHP software developer and tutor for some Internet- and Video-related topics. I try to teach all the complicated stuff as easy as possible and it seems that my audience likes it :)

I'm a German guy, so you talk to me in German also.

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