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
- 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.
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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.
Video, yeah that would be a great idea. Lets see if i can make one.
Looks Cool Mate, I must try it
Hope this article will help you to build one.
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?
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The above method will work only with photoshop, i don’t think any other GIMP will do.
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.
You seem to make it look so simple….
WoW, Shanker. You definitely knew how to make the hard thing becoming easier here
By the way, nice ebook cover!
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!
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.
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.
Thanks, i’ve already download it
Hey Shanker,
Nice job!
Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com
Great job Shanker! We offer tons of actions to do this sort of this automatically. Great article!
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
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great tutorial, i will need to learn how to do photoshop with this,
That looks so cool and so simple to do, right? A video of you doing this would be even better.
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Great ebook cover designing tutorial.
Thanks for well explanation.
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.
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.
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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Thanks for the great tutorial. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and thank you for the templates. Great value. however I realized that they are for photoshop 7 I believe. too bad they are not compatible for CS5. but I would love to know how you made the 3D book template. I am sure it was hard in 7 but could it be that it was made easier in CS5 by any chance? If I figure it out before you I will definitely share it.
ben
Wanted to do the tutorial and when I went to download the 3 images for the book, came to a dead end, with no templates to be had.
Can you tell me where I might obtain the templates.
Thank you