Learn how to edit a professionally-designed book cover template from Adobe Stock using Adobe InDesign.
However,your book cover is your number one marketing tool. If you are not a confident designer and create a subpar book cover design, your book sales will suffer. If you don’t have design experience, I recommend spending the money to hire a cover design artist. It can cost a pretty pe...
Learn how to edit a professionally-designed book cover template from Adobe Stock using Adobe InDesign.
You want to write a book. Maybe you have a great story idea. Maybe you have a big idea you want to share with the world. Maybe people have told you, “Your life should be made into a book!” But first, you have to learn how to write a book. The problem for the first-time au...
7. Adapt the design to other book formats Now that the front cover design is complete, the next step is to adapt it for the various book formats you plan to publish. Let's start with the simplest option: publishing your manuscript as an ebook. For this, you only need to prepare a fr...
If you insist on designing a book cover yourself, Canva provides free drag-and-drop templates. These are kind of like premade book covers, although you can change the font, cover art and other graphical elements relatively easily. I usedCanvato design a book cover for one of my self-publis...
There areservices that will design your book cover for you. But since you're here, learning how to DIY it, we're going to assume you're looking for something a little more hands-on. The easiest would be one of themany websites that offer book cover templatesthat provide a professional...
I foundFotorto be the best free software for producing the collage of images for the mood board. Fotor is availablehere. Stage Three: Drafts and Revisions With the mood board to refer to, the book cover designer sketched this design, which was much more the style we were looking for. ...
7. Adapt the design to other book formats Now that the front cover design is complete, the next step is to adapt it for the various book formats you plan to publish. Let's start with the simplest option: publishing your manuscript as an ebook. For this, you only need to prepare a fr...
You’ll save money- Is there any bigger benefit than free? You won’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on a cover. That’s money that you can use for other tasks, such as editing and book promotion. On the low end, you’ll pay $300 for a cover design. On the high end and ...