Comments for How to Make an eBook Cover

How to Make an eBook Cover

2003-06-19T17:34:56Z

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.

Comment from Home Improvements on 2009-12-20

2009-12-20T22:29:55Z

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 :)

Comment from andrea 77 on 2009-12-03

2009-12-03T09:21:43Z

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

Comment from Adrienne Lee on 2009-11-19

2009-11-19T20:51:49Z

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.

Comment from Mike on 2009-07-21

2009-07-21T08:41:11Z

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!

Comment from Poze on 2009-07-15

2009-07-16T02:42:58Z

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!

Comment from Ovi Dogar on 2009-06-17

2009-06-17T07:41:49Z

Hey Barbara,

Nice post!...

Keep up the great work!

Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com

Comment from joe on 2009-05-22

2009-05-22T12:55:30Z

That coverartguide site you refer to no longer appears to exist. Do you have another site you recommend?

Comment from Make eBook Covers on 2009-03-02

2009-03-02T23:50:25Z

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.

Comment from jr on 2008-12-19

2008-12-19T15:35:19Z

How do you attach ecover to ebook itself once the ecover is created?

Comment from Iklan Malaysia on 2008-12-17

2008-12-18T07:38:07Z

any disadvantages using free trial software? any ads or limited features?

Comment from Nathan on 2008-10-23

2008-10-23T17:33:23Z

I just use GFX writer.

Comment from Rob on 2008-10-14

2008-10-14T18:10:45Z

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

Comment from David Reeves on 2008-10-03

2008-10-03T21:00:06Z

hello, i tried to find Cover Art Guide but cannot get it. is there a another similar source that i can use?

thanks, David...

Comment from mike d on 2008-03-22

2008-03-22T21:56:43Z

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

Comment from mike d on 2008-03-22

2008-03-22T21:56:04Z

Comment from Salina K. on 2008-03-11

2008-03-11T19:57:30Z

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.

Comment from Mustaqeem Adam on 2008-01-08

2008-01-08T22:11:37Z

Hi Barbara, do you know any free ebook cover maker without any trial period?

Comment from ebook covers on 2007-10-01

2007-10-02T00:36:49Z

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.

Comment from Bum Marketing Method on 2006-12-28

2006-12-28T14:50:31Z

Hey Barbara,

EXACTLY what I was looking for...thank you.

Comment from Nikki on 2006-12-05

2006-12-05T23:02:09Z

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!!!