Monday, October 12, 2009

Free e-book cover Photoshop Action

I've often wondered how designers create cool looking e-book covers such as the types shown on the sales pages for many Clickbank products. I did a simple search and found a couple of 3-D e-book covers tutorials. They require Adobe Photoshop, and if you've used Photoshop for a while, and even if you're not an advanced user, these e-book covers look like they're easy to make. The E-book cover tutorial I've found is located at http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/ecover-ebook-3-d-box-tutorial/

It gives you step-by-step instructions, along with pictures. The finished e-book cover will have a nice fade around the edge to give it the effect of being under special lighting. From the same website as the e-book tutorial, the author gives you a free Photoshop action that will allow you to create e-book covers with one click, starting from a 2-D image of your e-book cover. This Photoshop action seems to be quite popular. It was downloaded over 11,000 times.

The e-book cover Photoshop action is entirely free to download, and the author shows you how to install the action and then how to use it to create your first e-book cover.

You can download the e-book cover Photoshop action and read the tutorial on how to install and use it at the following address http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/free-ebook-action-creator/

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