When deciding how to make your perfect book cover, check Amazon’s online marketplace for inspiration. Look inside and outside your genre. This is just for pure inspiration.As you browse Amazon, look for book covers that stick out or that you find appealing. When you find a book cover ...
How to Create a Book Cover Design Well hello there dear readers! Simon here, ready to walk you through my process to create a striking book cover with our latest vector pack release, the hard to kill vector pack. We’ll look at the pack elements, how to pick, choose, and arrange them...
The subject of fonts is just too big to cover here, but one basic tip is not to use the fonts that come with your computer. You can find lots of different titling fonts (usually called fancy fonts) on the internet, free or paid. If the font is free, make sure the licence allows c...
In this tutorial we’ll look at giving Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace a modern makeover. I’ve tried to recreate the mood and theme of the book, with collage-style silhouettes of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow—one filled with an image of floral-printed china, to represent peace and dome...
Follow this essential 11-step checklist to make sure your book cover designs are perfect, every time.
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Instead, I’m going to make this as simple as possible for you to get yourbook coverright. This chapter will walk you through what you need to know about book covers, why you need a book cover designer, how to find a good one, how to work with them to ensure they create the cover...
You're finally ready to put it all together. To make sure that the dimensions of your jacket are perfect, you'll need to first measure the size of your book’s face from bottom to top to find its length then spine to edge to find its width. Cut a strip of paper six inches longer...
In Canva, you can change the text template even after you have selected a cover template. As an alternative to the previous example, let’s select a left-hand aligned text template. Now make it bigger, retype the title and delete all the extra text. Also, you can change the text color...
Books from the same genre usually have a similar style of cover. As cover style is a major factor shoppers use in indentifying genre, it is a good idea to make your book’s cover similar in style to others in its category. That does not mean your cover has to be unoriginal, however....