A Book Dust-Cover

[Paul Bruneau]

Hi Everybody,

I'm fooling around with trying to draw a book dust-cover. I'm failing miserably.

Naturally, I've been trying to steal technique from the tutorials I find at http://site.xaraxone.com/archives/,
or any other tutorial, but I've yet to find anything that leads me to this sort of display:



If anyone knows of a tutorial that I can follow to understand how to do this, please provide a link I can follow.

I would really appreciate it.

[Acorn]

Paul, it depends on how realistic you want it.

My simplistic method: Xara - Bookcasing.xar

Acorn

[handrawn]

also bear in mind that, because of the way human perception works, some fonts will not look 'right' skewed on a flat print/screen render in the way they would on a real 3 dimensional object...

[Paul Bruneau]

Thanks guys,

You did what I wanted to do, Acorn. I need to study the "Extrude Tool" description in the manual. Not sure why I need a copy though Acorn, from you description.
In any event, it looks like this is what I need to do.

Thanks again,

[gwpriester]

If it were one of my tutorials, I would create a rectangle with the text centered in the rectangle.

Then I would use the Mould Tool with the Default Perspective Envelope and snap the image to the four corners of the cover.

[gwpriester]

Wow, you guys all seem to complicate things... software isn't everything in the art and or creativity world you know? When we were in school you had these things called pencil crayons... they really worked eh? Ya cut out a paper bag to shape, and drew what ever hit your fancy.

It might have escaped your attention, this forum is about Xara software products. The OP's question, if you took the time to read it, doubtful, referenced XaraXone tutorials, which I created for close to twenty years.

If you must bloviate to hear yourself talk, please do it in someone else's forum.

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's my 'complicated' version. Used the same idea of using the Extrude tool as Acorn.

[Boy]

Must be a bestseller!

[Acorn]

Here's my 'complicated' version. Used the same idea of using the Extrude tool as Acorn.

Egg, careful the apostrophe police are about.

A'corn

[Egg Bramhill]

You can be so pedantic at times Acorn