Y6 Use j2e tools to recreate a book cover

Typing.com

Africa book covers

1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
2. Look at the different book covers
3. Move the cover you are doing on to the first page.
4. Use the tools in j2e to copy one of them as accurately as possible.

Decomposition

We will start with the cover background colour and build it up in layers.  Break the problem down – decomposition

1 Cover shape, blocks and colour

• Trace the shape of the whole book cover with the rectangle tool
• Do the same for the red bar at the bottom
• Select each shape and change the colour by using “fill”

2 Text

• Type the different bits of text
• Choose the best font
• Resize and position them exactly on the book cover

3 Shapes

• Use the “spiky” shape tool or other shape tools to trace around the any other shapes.
• Change the fill and outline colour

4 Images

• Search for images using several key words – search what you see
• Use this website to take the background away in you need to
  • Create a png https://onlinepngtools.com/create-transparent-png
• OR
• Search for the picture and drag onto j2e
• Go to JIT5 paint
• Start a new painting with the checkerboard background
• Put the picture on the page
• Fill any white backgound with “invisible paint”
• Save image as gif (top right of image)

6 Improve the text

• Use one of these to get a better match
  • Cool text https://cooltext.com/In j2e5 hold “shift” down while dragging to stretch/squash the text
  • http://www.picturetopeople.org/text_generator/others/transparent/transparent-text-generator.html
  • Find a font https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/result
  • Online Paint https://jspaint.app/#local:153bdc677dbcf
    • Type some text
    • Click on transparent mode  select text and copy (ctrl-c)
    • In j2e5, paste (ctrl-v)
    • Shift-drag to resize

Finished?

1. Start another contrasting book cover.  What different skills do you need?
2. Recreate 3 contrasting book covers
3. Choose one book cover – create the back cover and spine in the same style, matching colours, fonts etc
4. Create your own book cover on Africa or an aspect of Africa.