The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Book Cover Design

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Book Cover Design, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.5, with 47 lectures, based on 66 reviews, and has 4930 subscribers.

You will learn about You will learn the graphical design principles and color theory to avoid amateurish mistakes You will be able to use images, colors and pair typefaces so that they look good together and communicate your book genre You will understand what graphical design techniques professional designers use to make book covers "pop out" and attract readers. You will learn how to create your book cover design, 3D book mockups, as well as computer, smartphone and tablet mockups free of charge. You will be able to create professionally looking book advertisements for social media and your other promotional materials. You will know the best free and low-cost resources to get images and fonts for your book covers and other visuals without infringing upon someone else's copyright. You will understand what elements a book cover must have and their hierarchy. You will learn the best practices of fiction and non-fiction book cover design. You will be able to set the proper orientation and dimensions for your book cover You will learn PowerPoint features and techniques that can be used for creating stunning picture effects and customizing fonts. You will be able to work with picture layers, create 3D pop-out images, integrate text with pictures, create text masks, import pictures in objects, create photo collages and use many other PowerPoint techniques. You will even learn how to edit EPS vector files and create your own illustrations and cartoons. This course is ideal for individuals who are Self-Published Authors or Indie Authors or Bloggers that need book covers for their lead magnets It is particularly useful for Self-Published Authors or Indie Authors or Bloggers that need book covers for their lead magnets.

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Summary

Title: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Book Cover Design

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 47

Number of Published Lectures: 47

Number of Curriculum Items: 47

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 47

Original Price: $27.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will learn the graphical design principles and color theory to avoid amateurish mistakes
You will be able to use images, colors and pair typefaces so that they look good together and communicate your book genre
You will understand what graphical design techniques professional designers use to make book covers "pop out" and attract readers.
You will learn how to create your book cover design, 3D book mockups, as well as computer, smartphone and tablet mockups free of charge.
You will be able to create professionally looking book advertisements for social media and your other promotional materials.
You will know the best free and low-cost resources to get images and fonts for your book covers and other visuals without infringing upon someone else's copyright.
You will understand what elements a book cover must have and their hierarchy.
You will learn the best practices of fiction and non-fiction book cover design.
You will be able to set the proper orientation and dimensions for your book cover
You will learn PowerPoint features and techniques that can be used for creating stunning picture effects and customizing fonts.
You will be able to work with picture layers, create 3D pop-out images, integrate text with pictures, create text masks, import pictures in objects, create photo collages and use many other PowerPoint techniques.
You will even learn how to edit EPS vector files and create your own illustrations and cartoons.

Who Should Attend

Self-Published Authors
Indie Authors
Bloggers that need book covers for their lead magnets

Target Audiences

Self-Published Authors
Indie Authors
Bloggers that need book covers for their lead magnets

What if I told you that it is easy to create professional looking book covers in PowerPoint? �

Maybe you assume that PowerPoint works only for creating presentation slides, which is actually not true. You can be really creative in PowerPoint. You can create visuals in different sizes and formats, create your own templates, make your own designs by creating new shapes, editing eps vector files, customizing fonts and using many other effects. Moreover, you can create mockups and promotional visuals for your books and other digital products.

Even if you are struggling with creating your book cover design, after watching this course, you will be able to create professional looking book cover designs that sell and you will be proud of.�

If you are a self-publishing author and are starting out on a very small budget, a homemade, DIY book cover is a practical solution. However, the worst thing you can do is consider your cover design like a blank canvas and add all elements randomly without deeper understanding what role they are playing. So, in this course you are going to learn how to use colors, fonts, pictures and graphical design principles to communicate your genre and create a book cover that attracts your readers’ attention. Moreover, you will learn practical know-hows and advanced techniques to create your own and original book cover design in PowerPoint 2016 (If you don’t have PowerPoint 2016 you can apply the same techniques also in PowerPoint 2013).

The additional benefit is that the same principles and techniques that you use for your book cover design you will be able to use also for creating other visuals – for social media and web. Therefore, you will never need to consider paying for additional image editing softwares or tools, because PowerPoint can offer everything you need. You will be surprised how multi-functional it is. This course is full of techniques you can use for creating different kind of visuals for almost every purpose.

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Basics of the Graphic Design Theory

Lecture 1: CRAP – The Main Principles of Good Graphic Design and Composition

Lecture 2: Color Scheme Principles

Lecture 3: The Meaning of Color

Lecture 4: Use Formula to Create Your Color Schemes

Chapter 3: The Principles of Pairing Fonts

Lecture 1: Understand 6 Typeface Categories

Lecture 2: Which Fonts Will Look Good Together?

Lecture 3: 7 Typographic Contrasts

Lecture 4: Add New Fonts to Your Computer

Lecture 5: 10 Websites You Can Get Free Fonts From

Chapter 4: Use Stunning and High Quality Images

Lecture 1: Understanding Creative Commons Licenses

Lecture 2: 60+ Absolutely Free Stock Images Websites

Lecture 3: Cheap Resources To Buy Your Royalty Free Stock Images

Chapter 5: Design Tips for Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Covers

Lecture 1: Tips for Fiction & Non-Fiction Book Cover Design

Lecture 2: Tips for Designing a Book Cover That Looks Professional

Lecture 3: Avoid Amateurish Mistakes – Do's and Don'ts of Your Book Cover Design

Chapter 6: Picture Effects in PowerPoint

Lecture 1: Remove Image Background

Lecture 2: Create Picture Layers

Lecture 3: Blend Pictures & Backgrounds

Lecture 4: Import and Customize Vector Images (EPS files)

Lecture 5: Import Pictures into Shapes

Lecture 6: Create 3D – Pop-Out Images

Lecture 7: Split Your Picture With Colors

Lecture 8: Integrate Texts with Pictures

Lecture 9: Create Photo Collages

Lecture 10: Draw Your Own Design Elements & Even Cartoon Characters

Chapter 7: Font Effects and Customization

Lecture 1: Change Spacing Between Letters

Lecture 2: Transform and Change the LetterForms

Lecture 3: Fill Letters with Pictures

Lecture 4: Use Photo Masking

Lecture 5: Create Text Outline

Chapter 8: Putting it All Together

Lecture 1: What is the Best Book Cover Size?

Lecture 2: Example – Create a Fiction Book Cover

Lecture 3: Example – Create a Non-Fiction Book Cover

Lecture 4: Other Resoures for Book Cover Designs

Lecture 5: How to Test Your Book Cover Design?

Chapter 9: Create 3D Book Mockups for Your Advertisements

Lecture 1: Design a 3D Book Mockup in PowerPoint

Lecture 2: Design a 3D Book & Laptop Mockup in Pixlr

Lecture 3: The Link to Images for Mockups

Lecture 4: Use These Mockup Tools for Quick Results

Lecture 5: Create an Advertisement for a Non-Fiction Book

Lecture 6: Create an Advertisement for a Fiction Book

Lecture 7: PowerPoint Templates for Book Promo Visuals

Chapter 10: Technical Issues Solved

Lecture 1: Setting PowerPoint Picture Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 2: Combine Shapes Explained

Lecture 3: Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture: Learn How to Create Logos in PowerPoint

Instructors

Anita Nipane
Social Media Manager and MBA in Marketing

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1 stars: 1 votes
2 stars: 2 votes
3 stars: 5 votes
4 stars: 12 votes
5 stars: 46 votes

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