Create an ebook cover with ease (and Photoshop)

04 September 2009 · 1 comment

Ebook covers don’t have the ‘glamour’ of their dead tree counterparts, so ads for them look flat. Cats who Code have a remedy for that.

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After going to all the trouble of writing a couple of ebooks, I found it a problem to add an image of their covers to my sales page.

Just using a reduced size front page image made them look bland. The books themselves, of course, aren’t bland, but rather they are very useful:

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Today I found time to improve on those ‘covers’, thanks to a nice little tutorial by Jean-Baptiste Jung of Cats who Code:

A friend of mine recently asked me some help to design a cover for his forthcomming ebook. After designing it, I decided to make a tutorial and share it with you.

He links to a base file from EbookTemplateSource.com depicting a blank book cover. I loaded in that file, then followed the steps to add in and resize my image. It was only a few moments work.

I’m quite pleased with the result — it certainly adds some additional ‘lift’ to the page.

Have you taken a look at my ebooks yet? They’re written for people who use WordPress, especially the clients of web designers. They may be just what you need.

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