Final Piece

Firstly, I used filled in each of the images that I had scanned in and adjusted the threshold of. I then dragged them into my book cover template and arranged them. 

To check that the images worked behind the text and above a background, I added in the title and name of author, and filled in a blue background. 

After that, I added in the images on the back cover. To make them have a 3D effect, I added a drop shadow to each image. 

I then filled in the blue background on the back cover and spine. I added the text of the spine, and the image of author on the flap. 

I filled in the rest of the background and added the biography of the author onto the flap. Then, I added the reviews onto the back cover. To make them more legible, I added a square behind them, and lowered the opacity so that the images behind were still visible. 

Then, I added the institutional information, such as the price, website, publisher logo and barcode. I added the same shape behind them to make them more legible. 

I then decided to have the author's photo and biography on the other flap, so moved those elements to that side. Then I added the blurb onto the other flap, as well as images of the other books available by Jamie Oliver. 

Then I added images of cutlery to the spine to make it more interesting, as well as the publisher logo. 

Finally, I changed the fill and stroke colour of the author's name on the front colour, to make it more legible and to draw more attention. 

My final piece, when finished.