Book cover design tutorials (best art and fonts + photoshop tips) - CreativIndie

Panzer is on author Derek Murphy's email list. Before he began his writing career, Derek Murphy was a book cover designer. His email today includes a link to a series of tutorials he put together on book cover design. The tutorials demonstrate fonts, mood, character, background, lighting, magic, and typography. The tutorials are free to watch on YouTube.

Free is good. Double free is great.

 

Panzer says, "Don't worry if you don't have Photoshop. Gimp software works just like Photoshop and it's free."

 

To watch the tutorials tootle over to book cover design tutorials

Ebook Formatting with Kindle Tutorials

You've revised and revised and revised. Your critique group has read it. And ... you've revised and revised and revised. Finally. Your novel is finished.

What now? Now it's time to get your novel ready to upload to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

We covered how to do this once before, but I've found another site with step by step tutorials just for you. It's called CJs Easy As Pie Kindle Tutorials.

Each step in the process of getting your novel into Kindle ebook format has its own tutorial. Need to know how to do a table of contents (TOC)? There's a tutorial for that. Need to know how to set up a template? There's a tutorial for that. There are tutorials for everything. The whole process is simple because it's divided into easy to follow steps.

If you don't already have Mobipocket Creator, you'll have to download  it. You'll be using Mobipocket Creator for your finished ebook before you upload it.

Once you have Mobipocket Creator installed, you're ready for CJ's tutorials.   You'll want to click on the birds' photo to get started.

Let Panzer know if these tutorials work for you.