You may find these Adobe PhotoShop books
useful when you create your own eCovers with the Adobe Photoshop
software:
Skyrocket your
Ebook sales with a great cover.
It's
true... people DO judge Ebooks -and other
products- by their cover. A well designed cover
will make a statement, and your product will stand
out from the rest... what means that you will sell
more copies.
When I removed my "worn out" Ecover on the sales page
for my "Web Site and Ezine Promotion Made Easy" book,
and replaced it with an Ecover that I had designed for
me by a professional graphic designer, I noticed
an increase in sales within the
first 48
hours!
So, if you plan to sell BIG... be sure to create
a stunning cover for your product.
When it comes time to give your Ebook the best cover
treatment, you have many options.
There are software tools available that will let you do
all the work, and there are a number of skilled
designers that you can contract to design your Ecover
for you.
I have my
own Ebook cover design service, where I charge people
only $10 for one cover in small, medium and large
format. For more info
click here.
If
you're looking for an easy to use program,
that will create unlimited and stunning
ecovers for your Ebooks/CD's, etc, then get
a copy of the Push-Button
Ecover Creator
Absolutely No
Photoshop, No Action Scripts or Graphics
Creation Experience Needed!
Check
this video to see it in action:
Use Fiverr to hire an Ebook cover designer.
You can
hireaprofessional via the Fiverr website
to create your Ebook cover for only $5.
Click here for one of the best. The video below shows you some of the Ebook covers
that were created by this seller:
Adobe PhotoShop Template Packages
If you don't want to hire a professional, or if you
don't have the money to pay one, then
you can work with an Ecover template package. These
packages contain Ebook cover
templates that are already designed for you, and all you
need to do is enter your own
copy -or add additional graphics- and you'll have your
cover ready in no time. (A copy
of Adobe PhotoShop is required to use these templates.)
But...
why not go professional with Adobe PhotoShop Action
Scripts? ;-)
It's really not that hard as you may think to create
professional graphics. And if you have
a copy of the
Adobe Photoshop
software, there's really no limit to your creativity.
With PhotoShop you can use "PhotoShop Action Scripts".
These Actions Scripts are
a pre-programmed set of layout instructions for
PhotoShop, and when they are executed
from within Photoshop, they create your final graphics -
be it a stunning software box,
a papperback Ebook, a membership card or a DVD/CD
case/cover.
As I said, to use these action scripts, you require a
copy of Adobe PhotoShop and some graphic skills to
create the initial 2D design.
Then you run one of the action scripts to generate the
final, high-resolution 3D design complete with shadows
and reflections. This is exactly how the professional
ecover graphic artists do it.
My favorite ones are a set called
"eCover Scripts"This is a great collection of
PhotoShop action scripts. Get your hands on these, and
in no time you will be creating dynamite looking covers.
PS: If you start designing your Ecovers, you will
need a vast collection of clipart, photo's,
images and graphics to add/fill your Ecover.
You
may also find some of the following books
useful for creating your own ebook covers. I
especially recommend Scott Kelby's excellent
PhotoShop manuals, as they contain tons of
easy to implement tutorials to create
stunning graphics. Click on one of the book
covers for more details.