Download or read book Design a Book Cover written by Tim Shaker and published by Vincent Noot. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you sick of outsourcing book covers or investing in expensive designers or artists? Do you want full control, and do you want your cover fast? Then take a look at this book, which will guide you through the steps of designing your own book covers within a small time period. The more you do it, the faster you get at it. However, with this information, you’ll learn all the quick keys and tools that are most important for a shining, stunning book cover. You’ll read about tips and tricks to enhance your Photoshop book covers to make them look professional. You will learn about the brush, pencil, and selection tools, transforming images, creating text, adding fonts, and much more! Moreover, in the back, I will show you a link where you can get the program for free! So don’t wait and start saving yourself money by learning more about how to design your own book covers.
Download or read book Designing a Book Cover When You Aren t a Designer written by Scott La Counte and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canva is a cloud-based (that means nothing to install!) design tool that lets non-designers make co-vers that will help tell their book's story. It's powerful and easy for authors (even those with limited com-puter skills) to learn. It's also the tool used to design the book cover for this book!
Download or read book Create A Beautiful Book Cover written by Malcom Bouthillette and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't judge a book by its cover!" We've all heard the phrase and we all know that's impossible. Because the cover of a book is the first thing a potential reader sees-it should stop them in their tracks. It's a very powerful marketing tool; having a well-designed book cover is crucial. After reading this book, that shouldn't be the case, because you will know exactly what graphic design techniques to use to create a professional-looking book cover design that's appropriate for your genre. You, too, can create excellent book covers that stand out! Read this comprehensive do-it-yourself guide and learn: -a simple system for creating a book cover design that will attract readers -6 easy-to-use book cover design concepts that work for every genre -6 book cover design secrets every designer use to create book covers that stand-out -5 easy techniques to test if your book cover works for your target audience -simple rules for figuring out the best colors for your book cover -where to get hundreds of free typefaces for every genre and how to pair them -what formatting to use in order not to look amateurish -where to find thousands of good-quality, free or low-cost royalty-free images and how to understand their copyright terms -how to make sure nobody else is using your cover art -a simple method for overcoming your creative block -how to choose the right book cover size and image resolution -what free software or apps to use for creating your book cover design and many other practical tricks and tips. It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with basic graphic design principles, color theory, typeface pairing, composition, and other principles because I'm going to give you guidelines and show practical examples and techniques on how to apply them in practice.
Download or read book Book Cover Design Formula written by Anita Nipane and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive do-it-yourself guide to creating book cover design for indie and self-published authors. You, too, can create excellent book covers and apply the same techniques that graphic designers use. If you are a self-publishing author and are starting out on a very low budget, a homemade, DIY book cover is a practical solution. Unless you make an appalling one, it won't hurt your sales. And after reading this book, it shouldn't be the case, because you will know exactly how to create a book cover design that attracts readers. Actually, the same principles apply to designing other visuals, too. Not only book covers. Therefore, you will be able to improve your designer skills in general. Read this book and learn: a simple system for creating a book cover design that you will be proud of 6 easy-to-use book cover design concepts that work for every genre 6 book cover design secrets every designer use to create book covers that pop-out where to get hundreds of free typefaces for every genre and how to pair them what formatting to use not to look amateurish simple rules for figuring out the best colors for your book cover where to find thousands of good quality free or low-cost royalty free images and how to understand their copyright terms how to make sure that nobody else is using your cover art a simple method for overcoming your creative block 5 easy techniques to test if your book cover works for your target audience how to choose the right book cover size and image resolution what free software or apps to use for creating your book cover design and many other practical tricks and tips. It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with basic graphic design principles, color theory, typeface pairing, composition and other principles, because I'm going to give you guidelines and show practical examples and techniques how to apply them in practice. Moreover, you can return to this book at any time that is convenient to you and read it in any order that suits your needs best. You have spent a lot of time on writing your book. Don't let all this hard work go down the drain by using a poorly designed book cover, because it can be one of the most powerful tools for selling your book. Buy this book and learn how to create professionally looking book cover that sell and you will be proud of.
Download or read book Design A Book Cover written by Dorian Henrikson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you having trouble getting that perfect book cover design for your ebook or Kindle book? Have you ever paid for a book cover design, only to find out its low-grade quality or not exactly what you were looking for? Learn a fast, easy way to make a book cover for your ebook. This may seem hard to you, maybe even harder than writing the book, but it does not have to be hard. Using the technique in this book, creating a book cover can be fast, easy, and fun. This book will show you a quick way to make your ebook cover using Microsoft PowerPoint or the freeware OpenOffice Impress. Creating a book cover can be easy and cheap, even free.
Download or read book Creating A Book Cover written by Paris Husmann and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't judge a book by its cover!" We've all heard the phrase and we all know that's impossible. Because the cover of a book is the first thing a potential reader sees-it should stop them in their tracks. It's a very powerful marketing tool; having a well-designed book cover is crucial. After reading this book, that shouldn't be the case, because you will know exactly what graphic design techniques to use to create a professional-looking book cover design that's appropriate for your genre. You, too, can create excellent book covers that stand out! Read this comprehensive do-it-yourself guide and learn: -a simple system for creating a book cover design that will attract readers -6 easy-to-use book cover design concepts that work for every genre -6 book cover design secrets every designer use to create book covers that stand-out -5 easy techniques to test if your book cover works for your target audience -simple rules for figuring out the best colors for your book cover -where to get hundreds of free typefaces for every genre and how to pair them -what formatting to use in order not to look amateurish -where to find thousands of good-quality, free or low-cost royalty-free images and how to understand their copyright terms -how to make sure nobody else is using your cover art -a simple method for overcoming your creative block -how to choose the right book cover size and image resolution -what free software or apps to use for creating your book cover design and many other practical tricks and tips. It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with basic graphic design principles, color theory, typeface pairing, composition, and other principles because I'm going to give you guidelines and show practical examples and techniques on how to apply them in practice.
Download or read book How to Design Your Book Cover Free written by Chris A. Baird and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need a book cover but don't want to break the bank? Do you wish you could design your own cover but don't think you can? Do you wonder if you could make a high-quality cover? Would you like to do it for free? Can you afford to keep paying high prices for low-quality covers? Is this positive for you? Do you wish you could not only create your own cover but know that you can do it quickly and free? How to Design Your Book Cover Free is a powerful design centered step-by-step explanation of how you can start today. This is a book of action and doesn't just tell you how I created my covers , but also reveals the secret to helping you also unleash your inner creativity. How to Design Your Book Cover Free is full of real-life examples of how to start with nothing and create your covers for Kindle, CreateSpace, and ACX if you only take a few minutes to learn the skills. After reading this book, I am confident you will be able to create your cover in no time and free You can take the practical approach that I have used to produce dozens of covers. Do you wonder which free tools will make it possible to design your cover? * Learn how Canva makes the design phase idiot proof * Discover how Pixabay will provide you thousands of photos to choose from that can be used free * See how Gimp removes the need for photoshop * Be amazed at how to release your inner artist How will you learn to use these tools quickly? * See how Chris, in a simple way, goes step by step in creating an actual cover right in front of your eyes. * Learn how you also can follow these same steps and create your cover too * Find out how the methods used by Chris work for anyone * You won't find long explanations, but rather to the point steps to get this job knocked out lightning fast! Do you find it difficult to learn new skills? * Never wonder "what if" you could do covers yourself * Wake up every day motivated by what you can do with a little effort * Be Inspired by Chris's down-to-earth examples and clear way of explaining how to create your cover. * Discover the secret to making serious money with great covers you make yourself Find out how to let go of your self-doubt and finally find the missing puzzle piece in your book publishing career. Are you also ready to start saving money and finally get high-quality covers for free? Try How to Design Your Book Cover Free today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top right of this page! P.S. You won't regret reading this book and see the amazing creations that YOU will create in minutes today.
Download or read book How to Make a Book Cover written by M. Usman and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Characteristics of a Good Cover Chapter 2: Eat the Book Chapter 3: A Word on Colors & Fonts Chapter 4: Choosing Images Chapter 5: Best Software Chapter 6: Secrets to Great Covers Chapter 7: Unlock Your Creativity Chapter 8: Beginner Mistakes Conclusion About the Author Publisher Preface As a writer, you don't need to hunt for a publisher anymore. You can publish your books on your own. The landscape has changed so much over the years. And this has flooded the market with great books. However, the problem is that most of these books are published by writers with no designing experience. This ineptness shows on the cover. A cover is like a sign telling customers to get into your shop. If it is unattractive, it will only succeed in driving them away. And you will have losses, and go out of business. Research indicates that 74% of decisions to buy a book are based on the cover. So clearly, you must give it the attention it deserves. Otherwise, you will waste time writing words that will only be read by a handful of your audience. In this book, I will give you tips to make a great book cover. By following them, you can bet your work will get attention. Your ideas deserve to be read. And that starts with a good cover. So let's go discover how you can make one!
Download or read book By Its Cover written by Ned Drew and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we walk into a bookstore or pull a book off a tightly packed shelf. It's really not something we should be ashamed about, for it reinforces something we sincerely believe: design matters. At its best, book cover design is an art that transcends the publisher's commercial imperativesto reflect both an author's ideas and contemporary cultural values in a vital, intelligent, and beautiful way. In this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated history, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger establish American book cover design as a tradition of sophisticated, visual excellence that has put shape to our literary landscape. By Its Cover traces the story of the American book cover from its inception as a means of utilitarian protection for the book to its current status as an elaborately produced form of communication art. It is, at once, the intertwined story of American graphic design and American literature, and features the work of such legendary figures as Rockwell Kent, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Rudy deHarak, and Roy Kuhlman along with more recent and contemporary innovators including Push Pin Studios, Chermayeff & Geismar, Karen Goldberg, Chip Kidd, and John Gall.
Download or read book Book Cover Design Basics written by Dean Parraz and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't judge a book by its cover!" We've all heard the phrase and we all know that's impossible. Because the cover of a book is the first thing a potential reader sees-it should stop them in their tracks. It's a very powerful marketing tool; having a well-designed book cover is crucial. After reading this book, that shouldn't be the case, because you will know exactly what graphic design techniques to use to create a professional-looking book cover design that's appropriate for your genre. You, too, can create excellent book covers that stand out! Read this comprehensive do-it-yourself guide and learn: -a simple system for creating a book cover design that will attract readers -6 easy-to-use book cover design concepts that work for every genre -6 book cover design secrets every designer use to create book covers that stand-out -5 easy techniques to test if your book cover works for your target audience -simple rules for figuring out the best colors for your book cover -where to get hundreds of free typefaces for every genre and how to pair them -what formatting to use in order not to look amateurish -where to find thousands of good-quality, free or low-cost royalty-free images and how to understand their copyright terms -how to make sure nobody else is using your cover art -a simple method for overcoming your creative block -how to choose the right book cover size and image resolution -what free software or apps to use for creating your book cover design and many other practical tricks and tips. It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with basic graphic design principles, color theory, typeface pairing, composition, and other principles because I'm going to give you guidelines and show practical examples and techniques on how to apply them in practice.
Download or read book Create A Beautiful Book Cover written by Zella Hagert and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of book cover design is to draw the attention of your potential readers away from all those other tomes and novellas and sell them on the idea that your page-turner is the next book they need on their nightstand. Inside you'll find: - Secrets of professional cover designers - The only purpose of a book cover (it's not what you think) - How (and why) your cover must match your genre - How to choose the best image - Avoiding pitfalls with stock photography and typefaces - What exactly makes a book cover professional - The secret "shortcut" to a Big 5 book cover - And much more
Download or read book Book Cover Design written by Damaris Pody and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you having trouble getting that perfect book cover design for your ebook or Kindle book? Have you ever paid for a book cover design, only to find out its low-grade quality or not exactly what you were looking for? Learn a fast, easy way to make a book cover for your ebook. This may seem hard to you, maybe even harder than writing the book, but it does not have to be hard. Using the technique in this book, creating a book cover can be fast, easy, and fun. This book will show you a quick way to make your ebook cover using Microsoft PowerPoint or the freeware OpenOffice Impress. Creating a book cover can be easy and cheap, even free.
Download or read book How to Create Amazing Tantalizing Book Cover written by William Medina and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create professionally polished eBook or print book covers Review: "Thank you, I love this and I have shared it with several workers at my elementary school." ~ Mrs. Todd How to create amazing tantalizing book covers for your eBook and print book. You do not have to spend $300 dollars or more for expensive cover designers, neither should you have to purchase extremely expensive programs to create wonderful looking book covers. This book will provide you with: • How to use software you are already familiar with to produce top notch book covers which compete with the best. • Instructions for setting up and formatting both eBook and Print Book covers to meet publishing requirements. • Creative design guidelines for producing eye catching book covers in eBook and Print Book sizes. • Valuable tool to allow you to maintain control over your book cover designs and keep your costs down. • Source list to more powerful tips. All it takes is a few common software programs that you may already have installed in your computer, of which provide the tools for making excellent book covers. MS PowerPoint is just one of the perfect tools used for producing superior book covers as it is geared towards graphical presentations and has the capability to merge colors, textures, fonts and images together in visually pleasing presentations which can be suitably formatted as book covers. Making your own book covers can be a lot of fun! You can do this too, even if you've never done it before. Author comment:This book is for people who want to publish their book and want to create their own amazing creative book cover. This book is for people who do not have the means to purchase expensive software, neither have the time to learn how to use complex software. What do I need? Everything you need may already be in your computer and if not, can be found online for free. Is this hard? The method itself is pretty easy. The hard part is coming up with ideas for the design for your cover. This book only helps you with the method, not with creating the design concept. This book is not for art professionals or those who are experts at using art software. This book is not for those who can afford the high cost of hiring someone to create their book cover.
Download or read book Quick Guideline to Prepare Paperback Book Interior and Cover Files Using Different Applications written by Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli and published by Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to publish and sell a Book on any publishing website, you need a ready-to-print PDF layout that supports all the requirements of the publisher system. You can create the PDF independently or use other production software like InDesign, or you can buy a paid professional production service. Book cover creation is the very last creative step when publishing a book. That’s because almost everything about the anatomy of a book cover is controlled by the final, edited version of the book: the trim size, paper color and number of pages all determine your cover’s dimensions. You need to design the cover after the final draft is finished. Book cover design is comprised of text and images. You must note: the front cover, back cover, spine, layout, picture, fonts, and other elements of the cover. The book consists of manuscript and cover. On the publishing website, you can upload your manuscript. The publishing website will automatically convert the manuscript to proofed PDF prior to publishing/printing. Depending on the publishing website, you can create your book cover using Cover Creator tool or submit your book cover in a PDF. Publishing Print books at KDP amazon kdp.amazon.com, Lulu.com and notionpress.com is straightforward, as you can just upload your manuscript as a PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, or TXT file. Kdp.amazon.com, notionpress.com and Lulu.com will automatically convert these file types to PDF prior to publishing/printing. You can create your book cover using Cover Creator tool within the websites. The free Cover Creator helps you to create and customize your eBook, paperback, or hardcover cover with a variety of layouts and fonts. Cover Creator uses the book details you enter during title setup and adds your book's ISBN to the barcode area on the back cover But other publishing websites such as streetlib.com, ingramspark.com, blurb.com, press.barnesandnoble.com and feiyr.com requires from the authors to prepare the Paperback book manuscript in PDF format, and to design and submit the book cover in a PDF format according to their specifications. So, the author must have good knowledge on the formatting requirements for the book interior, and needs to create a paperback cover, using design software to be able to publish in such websites. So, when you create a paperback book, you need to format and upload two files: a manuscript file, which is the interior of your book, and a cover file, which is the outside of your book including the front, back, and spine. Here I will provide the steps on how to format both files, plus tools and resources to help you get started. The report consists from the following sections: 1. Book spine width calculator. 2. Online cover calculators. 3. Creating Barcode for the book ISBN. 4. Interior and cover files specifications for publishing at KDP amazon and using the online cover creator at KDP amazon. 5. Interior and cover files specifications for publishing at Lulu.com and using the online cover creator at Lulu.com. 6. Quick guideline for creating a bleed for your publication on Microsoft Word. 7. Quick guideline for creating a bleed for your publication on Adobe applications and other applications. 8. Configuring Word so that it doesn't compress images. 9. Streetlib.com Paperback book specifications. 10. Feiyr.com cover templates for print on demand books. 11. Creating paper cover using Canva.com. 12. Creating paper cover using Adobe Illustrator. 13. Creating paperback cover using Paint.net Application. 14. Creating paperback cover using Adobe Photoshop Application. 15. Creating paperback cover using Adobe InDesign Application. 16. Creating paperback interior document using Adobe InDesign Application. 17. Creating paperback interior and cover using Adobe InDesign blurb book creator. 18. References.
Download or read book Book Cover Creation at Zero Cost written by Stephen C Norton and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Nine of the Zero Cost Self Publishing Series is here! Focused specifically on producing professional looking book covers using a variety of graphical packages. Want to create covers for your self published books? This is the book for you. Produce professional quality front and back book covers, ready for upload to the publishing site of your choice. Learn how you can do it all yourself, at absolutely no cost! Please note that as this book is part of a series on self publishing there will be some areas of overlap across the books. However, every effort has been made to ensure the overlap is minimal, only where absolutely required, and each book contains everything you need for the specific area described. Aimed specifically at the tools and techniques of cover creation, this book provides a complete guide for the production of professional quality book covers. Several entry level packages are covered, giving easy to follow instructions for free tools such as Picasa, FastStone, and the cover creation tools covered in the CreateSpace and KDP publication web sites. The free high end graphical package GIMP (the 'GNU Image Manipulation Program') is covered in detail, providing step by step instructions on how to create more complex book covers, including image component extraction and re-combination, management of image layers and optimization of image resolutions. Learn to select images, dissect them, combine images and parts of images with text overlays to produce a top quality professional looking book cover. Then use the covers you've created to publish your book to any of the three publishing companies recommended by the Zero Cost Series of books. Do it all at zero cost. The commercial software packages Corel Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop are also discussed and the GIMP instructions can be readily transposed for use with either of these tools. This book provides pictorial and descriptive guides that are easy understand and easy to follow. You chose whether to use a free tool, or to purchase a software package. It can all be done using the free tools so there are absolutely no costs involved. When you're finished, your book covers will be ready for publication. No need to hire production consultants. Do it all yourself at no cost and achieve professional results. Techniques can be readily applied to any type of book cover you desire. Buy it today, have your book cover ready tomorrow! Other books in the Zero Cost Self Publishing Series are focused specifically on other topics, including paper book production at CreateSpace, eBook publishing on Smashwords and on Kindle KDP, how to format your book manuscript, how to create your own eBooks and other publishing related subjects. See them all today at: www.stephencnorton.com/home/zero-cost-publishing-series
Download or read book Using Free Scribus Software to Create Professional Presentations Book Covers Magazine Covers Graphic Designs Posters Newsletters Renderings and written by Alice Chen and published by ArchiteG, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-12 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 80% of people have the desire to write a book at some point. With the advance of computer and printing technology, this dream can become a reality. One important factor of publishing a book is to create a professional looking book cover. This book uses book cover design as a case study to teach you how to use FREE Scribus software (instead of expensive professional software like InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXpress) to create professional presentations. With fewer words and many full color screenshots, we walk you step by step through the entire process. No prior experience is needed. You will learn how to: 1. Download all the FREE software needed. 2. Put the cover template in correct formats. 3. Set up the sheet correctly using units, colors (RGB or CMYK), layers, the imported cover template, sizes, guides, bleed area, and safety margin. 4. Add the background color for the cover with a shape or image frame. 5. Add the cover image and author's photo, as well as how to handle a fully bleed image. 6. Add the titles and text accurately, including information on selecting or changing the text color, using the text box, centering the text, aligning different text boxes, and rotating the text. 7. Add the barcode by extracting the barcode from an EPS file and moving all the barcode elements together or by adding the barcode as a JPEG image file. 8. Use Scribus software to create professional presentations such as book covers, magazine covers, graphic designs, posters, newsletters, renderings, and more. About the authors Alice Chen is an avid Scribus user. She has extensive interest in presentation software, and resides in California. Gang Chen holds a master's degree from the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has over 20 years of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated in have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, etc. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known, large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction costs, award-winning school designs, highly-acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multifamily housing, high-end custom homes, and regional and neighborhood shopping centers. Gang Chen is a LEED AP and a licensed architect in California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author for other fascinating books, including Building Construction, Planting Design Illustrated, and the LEED Exam Guide series, which includes one guidebook for each of the LEED exams.
Download or read book Create a Book Cover in Word written by Brent Westbrook and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating an appealing book cover design is non-negotiable for every authors. Most publishing experts will warn you against making your own book cover, with good reason: the cover design is too crucial an element to self-publishing success to take lightly. Making your book marketable is hard enough without a poor cover jeopardising your efforts. However there are many reasons why you want to give it a try anyway: You want to play with cover ideas so you know what you want before hiring a designer You want more control over your cover design You're launching a small project, a short ebook or guide, and don't want to invest too much You're writing a series and don't want to pay full price for each cover design
