How to create ebook covers?

mary81

I have to design an ebook cover for my first ebook. Do you have any suggestions? I don't have a license for Photoshop, so I can't use any tutorials.
thx,Mary

zibadian

: I have to design an ebook cover for my first ebook. Do you have any
: suggestions? I don't have a license for Photoshop, so I can't use
: any tutorials.
: thx,Mary
:
:
I would suggest that you download the Gimp from http://www.gimp.org/ . It's free and has many if not all of the features of photoshop. I've done some image editing with it and it's quite simple to get the hang of it. Even using layers and transparancy is simple to do.

mary81

: : I have to design an ebook cover for my first ebook. Do you have any
: : suggestions? I don't have a license for Photoshop, so I can't use
: : any tutorials.
: : thx,Mary
: :
: :
: I would suggest that you download the Gimp from http://www.gimp.org/
: . It's free and has many if not all of the features of photoshop.
: I've done some image editing with it and it's quite simple to get
: the hang of it. Even using layers and transparancy is simple to do.

Thanks for your suggestion. My problem is not editing the image, but making it look like a book cover. I searched a little with Google, and found some ebook cover creators. Most of them have templates. I am using now [link=http://www.adolix.com/ecover-engineer/]eCover Engineer[/link]. Do you have a better suggestion?

Ovi Dogar

Here is a free resource for creating amazing ebook covers: http://www.absolutecovers.com/blog/2008/06/03/free-ebook-cover-action-script/

oalddesign

hey there i think you should get license for photoshop to get the best result for ebook cover if you want you get quality ebook design you need to get photoshop there are other way to make the ebook design but it dont have teh same quality as what you can do with photoshop and if you will get the license for photoshop check out this site to learn how to create the ebook design
http://www.designebookcover.com

RobSmith

Gimp and gimpshop are very good but you can also use Inkscape to create really nice vector graphics. There is also Picassa and and Paint.net freely available. You can get Paint.net here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#Download/[link=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nationwide-Biweekly-Administration/120559944649041]
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RobSmith

Gimp and gimpshop are very good but you can also use Inkscape to create really nice vector graphics. There is also Picassa and and Paint.net freely available. You can get Paint.net here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#Download/[link=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nationwide-Biweekly-Administration/120559944649041]
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shalin111

Ebook cover is not a hard work in design. The problem only with the graphics. if you have the good graphics and you have got Photoshop then you need just to search Google for "eBook cover psd" or "ebook cover actions for Photoshop" and that's all.