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Why I Love PSDTuts But Don’t Have A Subscription

Apr

2013

Spending money hurts me. Like, really hurts me. If I spend money, I may not have textbooks next semester (20 hour load = lotta textbooks). If I spend a dollar today, I can’t do laundry this weekend. Clean clothes or a 75 cent soda? So spending money literally hurts my personal and academic goals. I ...

Science Fiction is Cool!

Mar

2013

It is. For real. One of my favorite tutorials so far that has come up for the science fiction genre is this one over at PSDTuts+. It gives you the tools to create a pretty darn chilling scene! Create a Science Fiction Environment With Photoshop Of course, you’ll need some drawing skills, but it gives ...

Case Study: Turn a Crappy Cover into a Golden Cover 3

Feb

2013

Turning a Crappy Cover Into An Eye-Catching Cover Is Simple! It is way too easy to make a crappy cover. Way too easy. Their presence is felt throughout the self-publishing world, causing a number of people to shun browsing through Amazon lists to save their eyesight! People like JA Konrath abhor crappy covers. Him and every other ...

Free Stock from iStockPhoto

Feb

2013

I love deals. I bet you do too. How about free? Stock photo for your ebook here at iStockPhoto! Today this high-quality stock is free!

Weekly Tutorials

Feb

2013

I’m starting a new thing here on Create Your Own Ebook Cover. I’m linking directly to tutorials that have inspired me and that I have followed in my own designs. Hopefully these will help you as you start your own journey to create a book cover. PHOTOSHOP Create a Battlefield Scene Using Stock Photography http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/battlefield-scene/ ...

Mimicking Book Covers

Feb

2013

In a previous post, I told you mimic book cover designs that you liked. Since I was heading to class and didn’t have time to elaborate, you probably didn’t have a clue what was meant by that. This post is to clear it up. Mimicking good work is how all artists start out. They read ...

6 Ways to Make Your Cover Readable

Feb

2013

How to make your cover readable and make people want to read it. So we’ve all heard this myth about making your title big enough so browsers can read your title off the thumbnail. But what does this do to the quality of your cover if you have to distort your book cover around the title? Is ...

Part 2: Create a Minimalist Book Cover

Feb

2013

Just take a casual stroll through Amazon or Barnes and Noble libraries and you will see that minimalist covers – those clear, clean-cut looking covers – are trending for a number of genres. And a good thing, too! If you haven’t seen Part 1 of this tutorial yet, the link is here. Let’s get on ...