: How to present page layouts in a portfolio A student came to see me today, debating on how she should be presenting her page layout work to apply in a very selective B.A. in graphic design.

@Ravi4787994

3d is the way

Live surface was one of the early publishers that started this 'trend' with blank mockups for everything. There are now loads of ready-made stock images around, or you can build your own 3d scenes if you can use the software. Then you can use Photoshop's Warp feature or 3d software directly to apply artwork to the curved surfaces.

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@Mendez620

If I'm correctly understanding the goal here, I would create a 3D mockup and present that along with the flat layout (probably each on their own page so they don't fight for the viewer's attention) and that way both the design in its "pure" form and its final realized form can be appreciated.

A book is a common enough object that she wouldn't even need to create a 3D model by herself. She could just grab one off a site like BlendSwap or TurboSquid.

Here is one example of a free CC0 book on BlendSwap that could serve as a starting point:



It would show that a little more effort was invested and demonstrate that the designer is able to create mockups too.

If starting with 3D data presents too much of a learning curve for the project's timeframe another option would be to start with a professional looking stock photo of an open book and impose the layout onto it in Photoshop using the Warp tool or in Illustrator using Mesh Warp.

Here is a stock photo from Pixabay (also CC0) that could serve as a starting point for image manipulation:



Hopefully some kind of approach like this can be a solution for her.

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