Design Your Own Killer EBook or Print Book Cover for Free Using Microsoft PowerPoint: A Step By Step Guide to Creating Your Dream Book Cover at Zero Cost to You, Using Software You Already Own

By Carl Beashorn
Published by New Paradigm Press
$2.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Dec. 13, 2012
Words: 9,015 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301889907

Short description

You've worked hard to write an amazing book. Why pay a stranger big bucks to design your cover? The title of this illustrated, user-friendly guide says it all - Design Your Own Killer EBook or Print Book Cover for Free Using Microsoft PowerPoint: A Step By Step Guide to Creating Your Dream Book Cover at Zero Cost to You, Using Software You Already Own. Do it yourself! It's easy… And Free!

Extended description

You've worked hard to write an amazing book. Why pay a stranger big bucks to design your cover? The title of this illustrated, user-friendly guide says it all - Design Your Own Killer EBook or Print Book Cover for Free Using Microsoft PowerPoint: A Step By Step Guide to Creating Your Dream Book Cover at Zero Cost to You, Using Software You Already Own. Do it yourself! It's easy… And Free!

If you really want to get taken, you can spend as much as $1,000 for the design of a single cover graphic that guarantees you exactly nothing as far as actual book sales are concerned…

…Or, as I demonstrate in this book, you can trust yourself and your own vision for your book, open Microsoft PowerPoint, which you probably already have on your computer, if not at home then at work, and get busy doing as good or even a better a job than any on-line "author services" company could ever hope to provide - all by yourself, at absolutely no cost!

Tags

self publishing, powerpoint, book cover, cover design, cover graphic, easy book, easy design, easy graphic, ebook cover

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Review by: Gabrielle Garbin on March 26, 2013 : (no rating)
I don't mean to be harsh, but this 25 page book doesn't give helpful instructions until page 19. I tried several times to create an e-book cover using this method and I had several problems, chiefly, that the finished file could not be made larger than 56"x 56" which translates into 1024 x 1583 or fewer pixels--not the minimum 1400 x 2400 required by the industry. Further, the author does not give concise organized instructions (e.g. "Step 1, Step 2...")but rather, "I did this, and then I did this...see how great it looks!" I saved my powerpoint slide as a jpg and used the "image" edit function in Photoshop to adjust the size to meet the 1400 x 2400 pixel minimum ebook requirements for covers. I'm not sure how you would change the image size so that it would meet Smashwords (and other epublishers) standards without other software. You can make covers using Powerpoint, so the author accomplished his task in conveying some basic information on how to do this. The most useful information is the information on where to find public domain photographs. A word of advice--choose the larger pictures (some of mine are 3000x5000), because they become distorted when they're cropped otherwise. The author does state that the smaller files (e.g. less than 1200x1400) will not be crisp but changing the actual dimensions of a photo will cause the picture to distort. It's a waste of time to select photos that are not larger than 1200x1400 if you know you will need to crop them to remove details you don't want in the photo. This book would have been a more useful book had the author taken more time to provide step-by-step instructions, as well as offering a trouble-shooting section about how to address the problems I encountered. I do appreciate the book for the information that I did get out of it, but I feel the cost is too high given the "how-to" portion of the book is limited.
(reviewed long after purchase)

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