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06-11-2009, 06:50 PM
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| Online Earner  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: South Carolina
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I'm about to create my first ebook but how do you make the covers. Im searching for a free alternative but I can't seem to find any and I dont have photoshop. Any suggestions?
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06-11-2009, 07:49 PM
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cincinnati, OH and beautiful Park City, UT
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| Re: Ebook Covers?
There is a free, open source software called Gimp that seems to do just about everything Photoshop can do. I've been a heavy PS user for 13 years, wrote a short .pdf about how to make ecovers in PS and Gimp, so I installed Gimp a few days ago and it seems to have all the tools PS has. Let me go dig out that ecover how-to .pdf, stick it up on a website and post a link here. I'll be back in a few minutes. :-Don |
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06-11-2009, 07:50 PM
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| Mike McMillan War Room Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: MI
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| Re: Ebook Covers?
Look in the Warriors For Hire section of this forum. There are tons of great designers there. I've used Ebook Cover & Minisite Design Studio- Professional & Top Notched Web Graphic Design Service many times and always been 100% delighted. I think you'd be better off having a designer do it for you--it can be frustrating. You can get and ebook cover done for $50, maybe less. Good luck!
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06-11-2009, 08:10 PM
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cincinnati, OH and beautiful Park City, UT
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Here's the free ebook. Mods - there is nothing being sold at this site - I use the URL for testing. It's here: http://www.ideapage.net/HowToMakeEcoversInPS.pdf Of course, by the time you spend weeks learning Gimp it might be just as efficient to take Mike's advice.. :-Don |
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06-11-2009, 08:23 PM
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| Alan D. Harris War Room Member  Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Delaware
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Find a old copy of Photoshop... I am using Photoshop 6.0... it's waaay old... but all the new stuff is always backwards compatible... so I'm usually good!  |
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06-11-2009, 08:30 PM
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| Howdy War Room Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: England
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Thanks Don Schenk, your pdf was very usefull to me if not to anybody else, now thats what I call a warrior
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06-11-2009, 09:16 PM
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06-11-2009, 10:27 PM
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| Don't stop believing  Join Date: May 2009 Location: Philippines
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06-11-2009, 10:33 PM
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| Graphic designer warrior War Room Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Australia
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I've got a cheap deal if you get frustrated, or check the WSO section, there may be someone cheaper still!
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06-11-2009, 11:10 PM
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| Advanced Warrior War Room Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada.
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I think a great way to get a decent cover AND help out a fellow Warrior is to keep an eye out for emerging graphic designers. Just because they are new to the forum, doesn't mean they aren't skilled designers. I like to do covers myself but I've great ones done for free as part of artists porfolios or even for just a few bucks to help them get started. |
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06-11-2009, 11:13 PM
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| Die Hard Warrior War Room Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Kansas, , USA.
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I use photoshop to design ecovers. If you don't have the time to do it yourself I have a great WSO below. Have a great weekend |
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06-11-2009, 11:15 PM
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| Advanced Warrior War Room Member  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Jamaica
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I honestly think you would better hire someone to do one for you. It can be very frustrating trying to learn all those software stuff. Note if you do not have the funds to pay for it to be done, you can always barter with someone here on the forum to work out a deal. |
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06-11-2009, 11:20 PM
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| Jack Lee  Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Hongkong
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You can use a free actionscript from maxcovers.com, but it requires Photoshop CS 2 to run it. My favorite ebook cover creator is blackbeltcovers.com but it isn't free.
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