Hello Barbara,
Found your site from Fred Langa. Great site. Very interesting and informative. Please tell me from where did you get your three book cover designs? They are most eye catching and professional.
Regards,
Robert
Thanks, Robert. I designed all my own book covers except “How to Add Games to Your Site” which was designed by Brian Terry of eBookWow.
To create the others, I followed the free tutorial and used the free templates available at Cover Art Guide. This fabulous free tutorial teaches you how to use Compact Draw (a $28 try-before-you-buy download.) I highly recommend it.
On the other hand, many gurus swear that information products with “ugly” book covers do much better. For example, take a look at these covers: Sherpa Store>, 101 Public Relations, and Succeeding in Business.
One day I will test my “pretty” How-to-Add-Games cover against an “ugly” one. How will I do the test? I am installing Split Hit to run a split-test run. I will let you know how it turns out.
P.S. Many of the resources I mentioned in this post are gone. Here’s an updated recommendation for making ebook covers with a Photoshop plugin.
I really like making my own eBook covers – I use photoshop though and action scripts and usually purchase a nice image to put on the cover 🙂
I just found a free resource for creating amazing ebook covers:
http://www.absolutecovers.com/blog/2008/06/03/free-ebook-cover-action-script/
Thanks for your Great info!!!
It is so difficult to find a good way to make an ecover for free.
I did however come across a way without paying for anything!!!!
You can make great covers with FREE TOOLs.
http://www.ecoversusingfreetools.com
It’s free and shows you how to make the covers free. No Photoshop involved.
I love that everyone is out there trying to help each other..
We can all get our ebooks out there and not break the bank!
Thanks again.
Hey Barbra Great Guide very informative. I prefer using photoshop actions. There is a great resources at http://www.designmediacovers.com which has an awesome collection of cover actions for photoshop.
Take care and thanks for the great info!
I use e very good software from here: http://www.n-ebook.com/product.php?products_id=159 .
It is the best.
Keep up the good work Barbara!
Hey Barbara,
Nice post!…
Keep up the great work!
Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com
That coverartguide site you refer to no longer appears to exist. Do you have another site you recommend?
I prefer GIMP just because it’s about as powerful as Photoshop, but it’s free. (I use it for 3D covers as well as other web graphics like banners, ads, etc.)
I always thought that an ugly cover would hurt your sales more than help it, though.
How do you attach ecover to ebook itself once the ecover is created?
any disadvantages using free trial software? any ads or limited features?
I just use GFX writer.
Hey Barbara, couldn’t get to the guide (might be an error with my browser?) Hmmm…
Like the other stuff here though, really informative thanks!
P.S I use eCoverSuiteElite actionscripts for most of my design work. Only bad thing is that it requires photoshop.
Here’s the link if anyone’s interested…
http://www.ecoversuiteelite.com
hello, i tried to find Cover Art Guide but cannot get it. is there a another similar source that i can use?
thanks, David…
thanks for your insight and generoisity in sharing this information…should help me tremendously as i write my book “Hiring Secrets Revealed” a complete expose of hirng secrets HR wont ever tell you…help to land a great job in a tough economy…i want to help people too
mike
thanks for your insight and generoisity in sharing this information…should help me tremendously as i write my book “Hiring Secrets Revealed” a complete expose of hirng secrets HR wont ever tell you…help to land a great job in a tough economy…i want to help people too
mike
Mustaqeem Adam, you asked “where do you know any free ebook cover maker without any trial period?”….you can use 3d box shot for free. Its at http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm. Be sure to check out http://www.richkits.com to learn how to best use it to make money.
Hi Barbara, do you know any free ebook cover maker without any trial period?
I found a nice ebook cover maker: http://www.3dcovers.com. They have a free trial and you can instantly make 102 different types of ecovers.
Hey Barbara,
EXACTLY what I was looking for…thank you.
This information is invaluable for me. I really appreciate you posting. It doesn’t matter to me if you receive revenue from you links as it is well deserved when you share information that people can actually use. Thanks!!!