Expert: Huma Riaz - 6/20/2006

Question
Is there a program in Photoshop & to design  a book cover.

I am writing a family memoir book in memory of Grand parents who migrated from India in 1914 to Fiji.

I find the professional desiners fee to be very expensive.  I am publising the book for sale. It is for family distribution only.

Can you suggest any tricks in hotosop?

Answer
Salaam Ayub,

On Internet, there are some good websites available offering free book cover templates with the actual source code files. Find the following related websites links

http://www.kristofcreative.com/portfolio/design/book_covers/designs.shtml

http://www.morrispublishing.com/dsn/cover/fullColorStock/full.asp

http://www.fonerbooks.com/print.htm

http://www.janicephelps.com/design.htm

http://www.pneumabooks.com/covdesign.htm


The second solution could be Illustrator templates, you can use Ready made templates created in Adobe Illustrator samples, where you can find a list of pre-designed brochures certificates and over pages, take of the that and make appropriate changes to customize this for you.

Most of the graphic software provides the templates/samples library along with their product, i.e. MS Word, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, and Illustrator and so on….


Try with these, hope this will help. Feel free to ask anything further


Huma Riaz
Location: Karachi-Pakistan