#Book cover creator free software software
To follow along with his techniques and methods, it’s definitely beneficial to utilise the same piece of software (the methods are largely the same across other softwares, but believe me: they’re not always so intuitive). In fact, this is what Stuart Bache (cover designer for Mark Dawson and Stephen King, to name just a couple) uses in his Cover Design for Authors course. Perhaps the software that most people will think of when it comes to graphic design, Photoshop is probably the “best” piece of kit when it comes to designing a book cover. But with some book cover designs setting an author back between $150 and $500, and with cheaper options (Fiverr, for example) not always providing great value for money, sometimes an author needs to put their own cover together (for the time being, at least).īut how do you even go about doing that? Or creating any of the other visual assets your book might require (3D mockups for your website, images for Facebook ads, etc.)? There are numerous pieces of software available – from the obvious and (sort of) expensive to the obscure and free. Most writers will need to purchase one, as it’s not often that an author also has graphic design experience on their resume (let alone experience knowing what does or doesn’t work on a book cover, or the objectivity to separate themselves from the design process).
After all, it’s the one part of our book that we (often) didn’t have a hand in creating! Though hopefully connected to the characters, story or theme of our book in some way, the cover’s main purpose is to convince a potential reader to pick up our book in the first place – in some ways, it’s a form of marketing in itself.Īnd that makes a good book cover something of a necessity. It’s somewhat unfortunate that the first thing a potential reader sees when they come across our book is not the writing itself (not even the blurb!), but our book’s front cover.
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