How to Create a Book Cover

In the first part of this two-part tutorial you'll learn how to create a high-impact cover for an Illustration Portfolio book intended for print, in Adobe...

Working on a book? You may have a photo you're dying to use on your cover but feel that it may be too busy or contrasting in color to allow text to stand out...

Walk into any bookshop and you’ll notice that each genre of fiction has its own general ‘style’ for cover designs. Though each cover is different, elements...

You’ll notice that most book covers will fit into a particular design template—a look or style that defines what genre of fiction they belong to. In this...

Young Adult Fiction is an ever-growing sector of the publishing industry, and a popular genre for self-publishers. Here, we’ll look at how handwritten...

The downside of the explosion in digital publishing is the fact that the market is becoming increasingly saturated, and it can be difficult to make your...

Who knew you could create Photoshop-standard effects in Adobe InDesign? Learn how to recreate this dramatic image-inside-image effect, and give your book...

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up the artwork for a clothbound book cover in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, and look at how to maximise the...

Redesigning covers for classic and beloved novels is big business in publishing. A well-tuned redesign can help a book reach new audiences across different...