Britt Art

 

I chose to redo the cover to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is one of my all-time favorite books. It happens to be that the Guide has had many different covers over the years. I will link what I can find on here.  I am also going to post my source photos. I took them but I think you should see them to appreciate the end result.

I used two photos: one of a towel and one of a “leather” bound book. I created an adjustment layer and used the curves tool and the Hue/Saturation tool which was applied to both photos. To create the digital screen, I duplicated one corner of the book several times and rotated the layers.  I then adjusted the hue and brightness. I intentionally kept the merge of layers a bit choppy. Doing this allowed me to create a dingy and old appearance to the screen. I intentionally kept the edges of the stitching rough to give the book a worn look. On the towel, I applied Outer Glow to help define the edges and keep the towel from blending into the background. On the title of the book, I Chose a heavy font, varied the font size, and adjusted the vertical scale and the leading. I then rasterized the text and painted the words hitchhiker and galaxy to make them look dirty.