One-Piece Cover Wizard for Photoshop CS3
I found another great tool for designing your book covers, courtesy of Lonesome Moose of Lulu, who wrote the ebook I recommended in my last post. His cover wizard script not only creates an exact measurement, based on your calculations and book size, but a barcode as well. All you have to do is enter [...]
Design Software for Book Covers
Karen writes:
I didn’t like the fact that you couldn’t say where the title or author’s name were to be situated on the page. And…when I downloaded one of their covers to play with, I couldn’t get the font large enough so I still wasn’t happy.
I ended up letting Lulu put the title in and I [...]
Hiring a Book Designer
If the learning curve of designing your book is too daunting, hire a professional. Fees for professional book design range from $250 - $5,000. That’s quite a spread.
Professional designers discourage authors from hiring designers who charge cheap fees. The big reason is that these junior designers make printing mistakes that the pros have to [...]
Designing Your Book Cover
Should you design your own book cover or have someone else do it for you? This is a critical question because we all judge books by their covers. The biggest and first mistake POD and self-published authors make is trying to design their own covers when they have little or no design knowledge.
To gain [...]
