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How many times have you purchased a product based on its design? And have you gone to watch a movie by its poster? And have you bought a book by its cover? Of course you have! They say an image is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to choosing a novel, we opt for original book covers and those with surprising designs that attract our attention, even though the most crucial aspect is the content.
If your dream has always been to write a book, why don't you start with the cover? This way, you'll have a guide to writing it. It doesn't matter if it's a physical novel or an ebook since when downloading the final result, the user will be able to choose among JPG, PNG, or PDF. Also, the user has an internal memory to save all designs, so you can keep editing from any device whenever you want.
Visme gives you all the capabilities you need to create a free online book cover. You can make an impact on your audience with our book cover design software. Start the process by adding text, visuals and a beautiful font to your book cover.
Select one of the ready-to-use templates to make book covers online. Change the text in the placeholders to reflect your award topic or event title. Add all your relevant information, and customize the fonts to match your vision.
Our book cover templates are designed for all types of books. Almost all of our users find a template that fits their creative vision. However, Visme makes it easy to customize existing templates so you can find a great fit.
Yes. You can upload all your visual assets into the book maker engine. If you need any photos, we have plenty of options in the left-hand panel. Additionally, we have numerous visual assets like icons. These assets are great additions for your book cover design ideas.
As a publishing network that has helped authors release over 10,000 books, Reedsy is in a unique position to compare how each piece of book cover design software meets the needs of authors in today's publishing environment.
Placeit offers a variety of cover template options with customizable tools that let it stand on its own. This book cover design software's best feature is that you can select your template based on the genre of your book, which is an excellent way to make your cover a more viable marketing tool!
Canva offers tons of cover template options and stock photos, each of which can be applied with the click of a button. Writers can then customize each book cover template with their own pictures, fonts, and other assets.
Visme's book cover maker allows you to easily create a completely unique book cover for your next publication. There are tons of available assets to choose from, or you can upload your own fonts and photos.
I've used Canva for covers for a few short stories I've posted on Wattpad, but my book got a professionally designed cover. I approached an artist I found on DeviantArt and inquired about a cover. It wasn't something he normally did, and didn't have a set price so he asked what I could afford. I made an offer, he accepted. It was a win-win. He said he really enjoyed the project, and I got a beautiful, unique cover.
Yup, you can't beat a professionally designed cover! If you're looking to take the next step, check out the designers on Reedsy: they've got years of experience in the actual publishing field and are locked-in on what will sell a book.Okay, plug over ;-)
I strongly recommend the current version of Serif PagePlus. I use Serif for all my cover designs. There's a slight learning curve, but it's mostly intuitive. Best of all, the cost is low (around $30 or $40 to install it on your computer, no subscription).
Don't want to be rude, but if you knew anything useful about Canva, you would know they have only one book cover format and it won't make a full cover for both front, back, and spine. Good for ebooks, but not paperback. Should I read the rest of your suggestions? I think not. I've published three books and with them three book covers, but none from a painting. Now I don't have my photo shop and I'm trying to do one from a friend's painting and it is proving more difficult to make it the right size, and etc. Canva?--a joke.
I use a desktop app called BookCoverly (bookcoverly.com) - it's mainly for creating paperback covers (front, back and spine) and also does book jackets with flaps. The nice thing is you can create your full cover, then convert it to ebook format. It resizes your spine and generates a barcode from ISBN. I've found it easy to use, $25 one-time charge, not bad.
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It is so easy to create a unique photo book using our array of simple to use designs, backgrounds and layouts, which are suitable to every occasion. Our custom web and app builder features help you customize photo layouts, move, shuffle and resize photos, and add text or embellishments.
Yes, it is possible to have a photo span across two pages. Our layflat photo books are ideal for this type of spread. The seamless layflat binding of our layflat photo books allows you to spread your photo elegantly across two pages. Although it is possible to span a photo across two pages on all our books, we would always recommend you use layflat photo books for this type of page design and if you choose our premium layflat book format, the pages will be printed on an extra thick luster-silk finish for maximum durability. The binding with other book types will cause the photo to be cropped in the middle of the spread.
Our free design tool offers complete creative control and a helping hand when you need it. Use the Quick Design option to create your book in three easy steps, try our customizable templates to get a head start, or design your own layouts from scratch.
As an old-school graphic designer, I've been able to design all nine of my self-published book covers with the help of a technician who follows my mock-ups to the letter. Now I need to come up to speed on the technical front and complete the entire work myself. Even so, it took ages to get things right, and sometimes I've redone a cover after two years.
Whatever program you use to create your covers (with the exception of paint) you should be able to read some tutorials on photo manipulation. If you don't have photoshop, GIMP is a good free alternative.
Exactly. Authors often want to depict a very specific scene or tell the whole story in the cover. Authors see very specific images in our heads and want the covers to look exactly like that. But that isn't possible. Designers work in a more fluid way. I know I do. It's not about telling the story... it's about conveying a feeling. And designers do that not with words but with color and images.
Thank you for the wonderful post, June! I didn't see half of those errors, so obviously I will need cover designers too when it's my time. ? What is the average price we should plan to pay for a cover? I've heard anything from $100-350 as an average so I'm really not sure.
That is about average. But it also depends on cost of materials. If you are dead set on a certain image, the licensing fees for it may be higher than others. Actually I could go way into this. My next post is about branding your books by choosing appropriate covers (or rebranding if need be) but I think I could do one at a later date on how to properly work with a designer to get the perfect cover for your book. Authors and designers literally see things differently sometimes. I'm both... but the designer part of my brain sees a cover coming together in a different way. So not holding the reigns too tight and trusting the person you hire can be KEY to getting a good product.
Could we get a follow-up lesson on how to work with a cover designer? When should the designer be called in? How long does a "typical" cover take to design? Should we write a short description of what we want for the cover? Should we prepare a mock-up with our ideas? Should we try to avoid "falling in love" with a specific image or visual idea? Are there smart ways to reduce costs?
This is a great post. Designing a cover is so deceptive - like you point out, that first one is okay, but the second one is an order of magnitude better. Having made some very duff covers, then had more talented people put together awesome ones, I've seen this process up close. The problem is, self-pubbing tends to put the accent on the "self", and the urge is to save money up front to make the most of the profits later. Except, as I've proved, the profits don't flow to books with ugly covers.
Yes, that is a HUGE problem. I try to keep my rates reasonable for that very reason. I mean, I have to charge for my time AND materials.... but I so truly hate to see a book with a bad cover. The cover is your books face to the world, and if it LOOKS self-published, if it LOOKS unprofessional, as if the author didn't care enough to get it done right, well... they'll assume the inside is thrown together in the same manner and won't even try reading it. It's a sad fact. Last year I volunteered to re-do a friend's covers for free, they were THAT bad. Within days of putting up the new covers her sales had increased exponentially. 2ff7e9595c
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