Tutorial: How To Create An Ebook Cover With Photoshop

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However if you are looking for a free tutorial (that is quite old and bad (sorry, but I’m not that much of a designer), read my photoshop ebook cover tutorial below.

This is a simple tutorial on how to create a fantastic looking ebook cover for your latest project using Photoshop. For this tutorial I will be designing the cover for my forthcoming ebook series on how to successfully launch a blog.

1. Ebook Cover Template
   Why reinvent the wheel? The people over at EbookTemplateSource.com have created some free black ebook covers for you to work with.Here are their three options:

   	This cover is suitable for smaller ebooks, newsletters/ezines or special reports. (52 KB)
   	Standard “hardcover” ebook. This design is suitable for most ebooks. (33 KB)
   	Tired of the same old covers? This design will certainly set you apart from your competition. Optional: Set your page layout inside your ebook to “landscape” instead of the standard vertical layout. (27 KB)

   For this tutorial we will be using the first ebook cover template.

2. Front Page Design
   Once you have downloaded the ebook template that you want to use, unzip it and open the file titled ‘cover01_blank.psd’

   
   This will be the starting point of your ebook design. Now lets start creating our amazing ebook cover. read this entry »