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Your manuscript is polished to perfection and you’re ready to self-publish. Great. What about the book cover design? It’s a dilemma for many Indie authors. A lot of time and dollars can be spent finding a good graphic designer with the necessary insight to do your work...
This, I feel, is the most exciting technique to use. You can easily make the most nondescript images shine.
The image above shows the 4 steps I took to produce the picture for ‘India Frances Hope/Maid in Thailand’. I took a simple snapshot portrait and gave it an idios...
Similar process to Example A, only adding ‘Focal B&W’ and ‘Dark Edges’ on Picmonkey ‘Effects’.
STEP 1 (fig 1)
Download copy of original photograph in the edit suite at PhotoScape. Mask area of photograph needed and crop to size. (Ratio 2x3. Resize to 1600 pixels x 2400...
Now here’s what I feel is a good tip: Don’t use fancy type faces. It’s amazing how quickly they become trendy. Your choice loses its ‘different’ feel and soon becomes dated. For book cover design, stick to classic fonts.
You can’t go wrong with these: (But by all means...
AUTHOR Frank Wall has written all his adult life; mostly advertising copy and letters to creditors during his professional years. He is now a full time Indie author currently residing on the bank of The Mekong River in N.E. Thailand. Here he spends most of his time in...