How To Make e-Book Cover in PhotoShop 7.0

October 3, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi
Filed under Blogging Resource, Ramblings

One thing which I want to clear first is that I’m not a hot spot graphic designer, but yes I know the basic and have that little creativity in me to draw things beautifully. I was keen to create e-book cover featuring me on face of it, I Googled the keyword “how to create an ebook cover in PhotoShop” and found that there are not enough article which can really help one to make an e-book with PhotoShop 7.0. Instantly I decided that I will try to learn it, will write a post about it and try to squeeze some Google juice out of it.

Let’s see how to create an e-book Cover on PhotoShop

We will do it in three easy steps;

Draw a 3 D e-book Cover
Draw Main face Cover and Side Spine Cover
Fix Face Cover and Side spine into e-book layout.

First of all you will need a 3 D e-book layout with shadow effects like the one in the picture below.

Rather explaining how to create it lets share a PSD file with you to download

Download e-book cover PSD here

Now we need to draw 1. Face Cover and 2. Side Spine Cover

Am giving you here PSD for Face cover and Side Spine Cover

Download Blank Face Cover

Download Side Spine Cover

- Create a fancy title; make some cool tag line on a simple gradient background

- Make out Side Spine here are few steps.

Now the only thing left is to fix the main cover and Side Spine cover to the e-book cover layout.

Let see how to do it.

Select The Face Cover Image
Press The Control Button and ‘T’ at the same time
Right Click on the image and select ‘Skew’

Drag each corner as explain above until it fits in the corner of e-Book Cover Layout.

That’s it don’t expect much from a Make money online blogger.

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22 Responses to “How To Make e-Book Cover in PhotoShop 7.0”

Bruno Auger on October 3rd, 2008 6:05 pm

You should of done this as a video. Would of been a great thing watching you do it step by step. I know myself I dislike using photoshop but I guess oneday I should learn to do even basic ecovers and stuff.

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Shanker Bakshi Reply:
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Video, yeah that would be a great idea. Lets see if i can make one.

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ZK@WebTrafficROI on October 3rd, 2008 9:12 pm

Looks Cool Mate, I must try it

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Shanker Bakshi Reply:
October 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hope this article will help you to build one.

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Abhinav Sonkar on October 4th, 2008 5:37 am

That is great! I always wondered how they make covers for ebook.. This would be really helpful if I ever decide to make one.. By the way, can GIMP (open source photoshop-like software) be also used to do this?

Abhinav Sonkars last blog post..The Art of Guitar Strumming

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Shanker Bakshi Reply:
October 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am
The above method will work only with photoshop, i don’t think any other GIMP will do.

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Marlene on October 4th, 2008 6:16 pm

Shanker, are you into graphics designing now? I guess you can’t get away from creating your own graphics when you have your own site. I’ve tried many times but I’m always not satisfied with the result.

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ZK@WebTrafficROI on October 5th, 2008 2:08 am

You seem to make it look so simple….

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wilhb81 on October 7th, 2008 10:21 am

WoW, Shanker. You definitely knew how to make the hard thing becoming easier here

By the way, nice ebook cover!

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Jay on November 1st, 2008 10:57 pm

Hey Abhinav Sonkar – in reply to your question, you can actually do it in Gimp, but it does take a little more effort. Open Source software rocks!

Check out these ebook cover photoshop actions for an alternative (& easier) way to create eCovers!

P.S Thanks Shanker for another awesome tutorial!

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Michael Henry on November 28th, 2008 4:56 am

I still have a copy of Ps7, but the current version is CS4. Perhaps a note stating the technique is compatible with current versions of Photoshop might help somehow.

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GIMP EBook Cover on January 28th, 2009 6:40 pm

You can do something similar in GIMP. There are some examples at http://www.makeebookcovers.com. Essentially you create the different images (top, spine, front), and map them to a box.

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AaCell on March 12th, 2009 9:46 am

Thanks, i’ve already download it

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Ovi Dogar on June 17th, 2009 7:53 am

Hey Shanker,

Nice job!

Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com

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eBook Action Scripts on July 21st, 2009 8:56 am

Great job Shanker! We offer tons of actions to do this sort of this automatically. Great article!

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Tech Buzz on October 6th, 2009 10:52 am

tried making one with the above help, but resulted into something a bit diff but i will try on it more as to get better with photoshop
Thanx and waiting for more such tutorials of useful things
.-= Tech Buzz´s last blog ..Apple iPod Touch 32GB =-.

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Jayvie on November 6th, 2009 11:53 am

great tutorial, i will need to learn how to do photoshop with this,

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Find Person By Phone Number on November 22nd, 2009 5:02 pm

That looks so cool and so simple to do, right? A video of you doing this would be even better.
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sampath on November 28th, 2009 5:17 pm

Great ebook cover designing tutorial.
Thanks for well explanation.

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cottages in cornwall on December 14th, 2009 12:35 pm

Hi,try Photo shop CS2-3 for Dummies”.It starts from scratch and its fun to read.If you are familiar with torrents, you can find easily an ebook version have fun.

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Ben on December 31st, 2009 1:51 pm

Anyone interested in this should check out this set of PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS. Basically you can just design your covers in Photoshop, then run an action to turn your art into a CD or BOOK etc etc.

http://www.coveractionpro.com/232.html

I bought it a month ago and it’s been totally worth the money.

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web design brisbane on January 22nd, 2010 5:51 am

EBook Producer is a software to make ebook that consist of many pages, Text,image,animated gif and link can be inserted into ebook pages. Background music can be supported too. The compiled ebook contains the book reader software and all the contents of the ebook in one windows executable file, The compiled ebook pages can be turned forward or backward like a real book is turning.

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