How To Make e-Book Cover in PhotoShop 7.0

By Shanker Bakshi • October 3, 2008

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

Bruno Auger Oct 3rd, 2008 at 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.
Shanker Bakshi Oct 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Video, yeah that would be a great idea. Lets see if i can make one.
ZK@WebTrafficROI Oct 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Looks Cool Mate, I must try it
Abhinav Sonkar Oct 4th, 2008 at 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?

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Shanker Bakshi Oct 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am

The above method will work only with photoshop, i don’t think any other GIMP will do.
Shanker Bakshi Oct 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am

Hope this article will help you to build one.
Marlene Oct 4th, 2008 at 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.
ZK@WebTrafficROI Oct 5th, 2008 at 2:08 am

You seem to make it look so simple….
wilhb81 Oct 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am

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

By the way, nice ebook cover!
Jay Nov 1st, 2008 at 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!
Michael Henry Nov 28th, 2008 at 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.