When you’re preparing the squeeze page you will use to offer your product, one thing you first envision is having a (hopefully) appealing image in there. You know it’s time for ebook cover design.
My idea was to come up with a flat illustration first and then generate the cover.
For the illustration I decided to start from scratch. To do so, I used a chart excerpted from the ebook itself and combined it with two free pictures and some basic word processor drawing effects. After some difficult sparring with my PC I had to settle for this:
For the cover, I tried doing some searching. First I gave a try at a tutorial using Paint.NET, which is a free tool comparable to PhotoShop (or so the authors claim). Paint.NET really is a great software but I found that it requires a knack for design non existing inside me, even when digging real deep…
I then moved on to free ebook cover generators, finally setting for the one from MyEcoverMaker.com . Although it offers just four free cover designs, I liked the fact they’re really good looking images: no watermark-type of background or anything, they honestly give out the cover. My choice was the stacked paperback picture, considering my product is a short report.
With many thanks to MEM, this is what turned out to be my first ebook cover:
There are fancier covers everywhere but now it’s on to the next task.
Hey Jose, the cover looks very professional I bet your are please with it, I use photoshop which is pretty good too, Sally
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Thank you, Sally, that’s an encouraging comment!
When trying Paint.NET it was evident from all the comments in the forums that the reference point is PhotoShop.
See you at your blog,
Jose
Hi Jose,
You should be very proud of your first e book cover, it looks good.
Keep up the good work.
Pete
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Thank you, Pete!
The MyEcoverMaker software does a good job, it helps a lot to enhance the look of whatever flat illustration one can come up with.
Been to your blog, you’ve made good use of the F2 theme, congrats,
Jose
Looks professional man. I haven’t created any cover, as i am not good in designing. Keep up the good work.
~Dev
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Hi Dev,
Actually, the flat illustration is nothing to brag about. It is the cover-making software that makes the illustration look professional, as you say.
Been to your blog; you don’t need to create any covers, really.
Jose
Hey Jose
You must be really happy with your ebook congrats great work
Thanks
Davy
Thanks to you, Davy!
Top ebook cover looks great, I have been using paints new brother Gimp. which is a free program aswel but works like photoshop. give it a go
Matt
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Hi Matt,
Thank you for the hint about GIMP, I’ll certainly go and give a try.
Jose
Hi Jose,
I found the ebook cover designs very unique and professional. Aside from that, ebook cover designs are proved to increase sales and help you get noticed and will make your business more profitable.Keep up the good design.
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Thank you, Daniel!
Hi Jose, i must say that you have done a good job in here. The ebook cover designs really looks great. I admit I’m not good at it but it really catch my intention. I made a research in Google and found out that it really design to increase sales and enhance your page rank. Thanks for this great post.
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E-books are usually read on dedicated hardware devices known Readers or e-book devices. Personal computers and some cell phones can also be used to read e-books. It helps a lot to enhance the look of whatever flat illustration one can come up with.
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This article is great!
How many times I look for the good ebook cover design,, thanks for your information about ebook cover. Good luck Jose!
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Thanks for sharing these article! Nice cover designs! Keep up the good work!
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Great looking cover for yoru first effort.
Seeing your product with a cover makes it have a higher perceived value, as the customer can see what they are getting.
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Thanks for sharing your experience about designing cover of any eBook.
I checked Paint.NET, it is really awesome, if compared to Photoshop.
But I would say that the content we provide should be informative and helpful to the society first so that we won’t have any problem in selling the eBook.
Hi Mike, welcome over here!
You’re right; in the end, the cover is just a first impression. We have to keep the interest through the content inside.
Jose
Hi, I have been trying to find some realistic 3D photoshop actions scripts to help me design an ebook cover. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time, Dana
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