Book Covers: Free PowerPoint Book Covers for Self-publishing

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Downloadable Course Material

Chapter 2: How to Create Book Covers with Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

Lecture 1: Getting Started: Creating, Layout, Saving and Exporting

Lecture 2: Addendum: Setting PowerPoint Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 3: Addendum: Setting PowerPoint 2013 Export Resolution to 300 DPI on Windows 8.1

Lecture 4: Addendum: Setting PowerPoint 2016 Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 5: Choosing a Background for Your Book Cover

Lecture 6: Inserting and Configuring Text Boxes

Lecture 7: Duplicating and Manipulating Text Boxes

Lecture 8: Inserting and Configuring Colored Boxes

Lecture 9: Grouping and Ungrouping Elements

Lecture 10: Inserting Pictures and a Second Sample Book Cover Pt. 1

Lecture 11: Inserting Pictures and a Second Sample Book Cover Pt. 2

Lecture 12: All the Places to Find PowerPoint Commands

Lecture 13: Addendum: Creating a Paperback Book Cover (Cover/Spine/Back Cover)

Chapter 3: Advanced PowerPoint Image and Text Editing (2017 Extension)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Advanced PowerPoint Image and Text Editing

Lecture 2: Book Cover Versions, Multiple Book Covers and Exporting

Lecture 3: Resizing, Positioning, Rotating, Flipping and Cropping Images

Lecture 4: Removing Image Backgrounds to Produce Image Silhouettes

Lecture 5: Removing Image Insets to Produce Image Frames

Lecture 6: Stacking Image Layers and Controlling Image Layer Stacking Order

Lecture 7: Working with Individual Images and Grouping Slide Elements

Lecture 8: Applying Artistic Effects, Color and Corrections, Picture Styles and Effects

Lecture 9: More About Text and Fonts

Lecture 10: The Big Cover Image Project Example

Lecture 11: Bonus Lecture: PowerPoint Slide Animation

Lecture 12: Bonus Lecture: Draw Any Shape in PowerPoint Pt. 1

Lecture 13: Bonus Lecture: Draw Any Shape in PowerPoint Pt. 2

Chapter 4: PowerPoint Book Cover Challenge

Lecture 1: Challenge #1 from RAD Pt. 1

Lecture 2: Challenge #1 from RAD Pt. 2

Lecture 3: Challenge #2 from Don Pt. 1

Lecture 4: Challenge #2 from Don Pt. 2

Lecture 5: Challenge #3 from Mary Pt. 1

Lecture 6: Challenge #3 from Mary Pt. 2

Lecture 7: Challenge #3 from Mary Pt. 3

Chapter 5: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Course Summary

Chapter 6: Create a Book Cover with Me: Microsoft PowerPoint & Pixabay

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Configuring PowerPoint to Export at 300 dpi

Chapter 7: PowerPoint Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Creating a Page and Adding Visual Components

Lecture 2: Configuring the Book Cover Background

Lecture 3: Inserting Text

Lecture 4: Configuring Text

Lecture 5: Inserting and Configuring Colored Boxes

Lecture 6: Inserting and Configuring Images from Pixabay

Lecture 7: Inserting and Configuring Icons

Lecture 8: Manipulating Stacking Order

Lecture 9: Loading Free Fonts Off the Internet

Chapter 8: Book Cover Creation

Lecture 1: Recreating the "Big Bones" Cover

Lecture 2: Recreating the "Book of Dreams" Cover

Lecture 3: Recreating the "The Last Divine" Cover

Chapter 9: Additional Material

Lecture 1: Grouping and Branding