The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Book Cover Design

Design Free Book Covers, Create Mockups & Learn PowerPoint Picture & Text Effects (2016, 2013)

Created by: Anita Nipane
Social Media Manager and MBA in Marketing

What Will I 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.

Requirements

• You should be able to use PowerPoint at a basic beginner level
• Access to PowerPoint 2016 or 2013
• You can use also Microsoft Office 365 30-day FREE trial version (includes PowerPoint 2016)

Target audience

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