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Easy ebook cover design

By Rupert Farrow | Published 02/22/2002 | Affiliate tools , Useful tools |

How to quickly design your own ebook covers

You can make your ebook look professional online with software called eCover Generator. It is the best way to create your own custom designed ebook covers.

Sell more copies of your ebook by giving your visitors an attractive and unique ebook cover to click on.

Having a proper ebook cover creates a professional image for your product.

If you've just spent a great deal of time writing your ebook it makes sense to create the best impression possible with your potential customers. eCover Generator allows you to quickly create your own customized eBook graphics. This ebook software comes with 45 templates that you can easily turn into ebook covers within 10 minutes.

I've been having fun giving the software a trial run. Here are a couple of ebook covers that I've made:

Looks like a professional ebook doesn't it!

Looks like a professional ebook doesn't it!

The ebook cover above was made entirely in eCover Generator using one of the built-in templates. There are about 45 templates built in that suit a wide range of topics. Doing this was so easy that I didn't need to refer to the online help. As you can see, the template covers look professional.

The second cover was made using custom images edited in Photoshop. The ability to use custom images is a great feature of eCover Generator. This allows you to put your own images such as a photo of yourself on the cover.

To create custom covers you will need another image editing program to crop and resize the images. This process is made easy in the program's help files. eCover generator also gives you instructions for downloading and using a free image editor called Free-Draw. This makes eCover Generator all you'd need to create your own custom ebook covers.

I did find, however, that I couldn't overlay eCover's text on images I had imported. This meant that I had to do the text in the graphics program. So you have to create the look of the entire cover before using the finished image in eCover generator. eCover Generator gives you the choice of also making covers for three-sided boxes. These would be useful graphics for software downloads.

Here is an example of a three-sided box:

ebook cover No.2

eBook Generator is a program that simply allows you to quickly produce these types of graphics. I don't know of another program out there that does this. I have no reservations in recommending this product to anyone who wants to professionally market their ebook.

Click here to make professional ebook covers in a ridiculously short time

[Editor's Note: As well as being useful for creating ebook covers for merchants, this software can also be used by affiliates for the same purpose. Many ebooks don't have ebook covers. You'll increase click-throughs and sales markedly if you create an ebook cover and it use in your promotions.]

Comments

Comment #1 (Posted by Ovi Dogar) |
Here is a free resource for creating amazing ebook covers: http://www.absolutecovers.com/blog/2008/06/03/free-ebook-cover-action-script/
Comment #2 (Posted by Patricia) |
Another scam. Free is free. Free is NOT a one time payment. I'm sick of these misleading, lying ads.

[Whew! For a moment, I thought you were referring to our review. You must be talking about the first comment. Allan.]
Comment #3 (Posted by Andrew Gibson) |
I develop a product designed to help people make 3D eBook Cover images. It's called http://www.3d-ebook-shot.com - 3D eBook Shot. Unlike any other ecover design tool, as well as creating static images, 3D eBook Shot can export video animations of your ebook covers. You can easily upload these videos to youtube and embed them on your website.

I also offer an eBook Cover Design Service. Prices start at just $100 USD for a cover design.
Comment #4 (Posted by John) |
Hey I found the E-cover service that provides life time free gifts, realistic graphics and 30 times more value for what you have paid! And its package starts from only 99.99 USD . It also offer that if any service of cover design is better than it then it will reward the person who noticed them a 20 to 50 dollar free gift or cash. More then that they provides the real looking covers that are just more than the professional 3d covers, and more often they have the LIVE CHAT!

And they provides the resolution of any value that the customer says and thats just more than a quality. Well hey I'm not from that site. I just wanna E-cover and I fund this comment and found that no other one is better than ZGW that Zielix Graphic Workshop. Have a look it!!!
www.zielixgraphicworkshop.com

Comment #5 (Posted by Ken) |
Well john you are right, Zielix graphic workshop ( zielixgraphicworkshop.com) is really a coolest I found, the aspect that here is showing that the covers are designed psychically to attract customers and to bring traffic. And the covers are realistic and professional too.
Comment #6 (Posted by ajax) |
That's right, zielix is the cheapest in the world and the best! you can see this on their website, no one in the world have their own support suite, live chat and the delivery service within 72 hours!

And the best part is that no ecover designing service have the graphics that can even say that they are comparable to Zielix's quality. I buyed 6 covers for my website and I got the discount too, and also not only any ecover designing service gives the gifts like them, even NO SERVICE, YES NO SERVICE RELATED TO ANY FIELD gives this much value gifts! visit here www.zielixgraphicworkshop.com and their prices starts from 99 bucks.
Comment #7 (Posted by Jake Bryar) |
Well recently i bought an ecover from zielixgraphicworkshop.com

As they promised i got my cover in 72 hours...

Talking about the quality i am more than satisfied with those quality... All those 3d max and mental ray technology etc [I dont remember the names of those technologies :D] did the magic and i found that the cover i got is no match to others

I got fast service, live chat support and yeah not to forget many and many free gifts...

Thus i highly recommend
www.zielixgraphicworkshop.com
Comment #8 (Posted by Blake graham) |
SCAM: all those cheap cover design services and self-cover design softwares are scam. Their designs are pathetic , dont even think about killer instincts they are pathetic!!! All those self-cover design softwares are really wastage of time and money :(

In my opinion i think except zielixgraphicworkshop.com everyone else hardly know what exactly are realistic 3d ecovers

i bought an ecover from zielixgraphicworkshop.com and i am fully satisfied with cover and services... They even provide online live support

So my vote goes to
zielixgraphicworkshop.com
Comment #9 (Posted by SuperSnooper) |
Has anyone else noticed that the bad grammar of all these satisfied customers matches the bad grammar of the site they're telling us about?
Comment #10 (Posted by Mandy) |
I think they are promoting their website. Anyway but the offer is really hot.
Comment #11 (Posted by John) |
I agree, My grammar is bad, I'm not an English speaking man. I just owns a small information business. I you wanna know about me then get the information of me from guru master mind coaching program of Eben peagen. He will tell you about my bad grammar and the business I own.

[How can I get the information from Eben when you haven't identified yourself? Are you someone who's pretending to be several different people? Allan.]
Comment #12 (Posted by Webr eviewer) |
Hey ZGW is under review. I will see that this snooper is telling the truth or just trying to do the demarketing of the service mention above. If yes then this snooper is a competitor of ZGW, who just hate better customer service given by his competitor. If no, then this snooper is probably right.
Comment #13 (Posted by Harward) |
I came here for searching about my company's service discussions, I'm shocked as I read few comments here. How can my company's service website had a bad grammar. Please it is my request that inform me if so. But I didn't find any bad grammar there. Anyway, I request to John and Ken that please do not post any of these comments anywhere except ZGW's forum. They will be highly respected there. And I would also like to thanks to Mr. Allan for allowing this discussion by few of these bad grammar people. I don't know about them whether they are my customers or whatever, but it is wrong to post these types of comments here and there, they shall post them only on ZGW's forum or weblog.
Comment #14 (Posted by Allan Martin) |
Here's my 2 cents...
I use these (http://www.ecoversuiteelite.com) eBook cover actions for photoshop.

It's pretty much the best way to make eBook covers in my mind. You can be just starting out, or a real pro - either way you'll make some of the best ecovers ever. Just thought beginners might like to know.

P.S Cheers for the cool article! I didn't know about that particular software.

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