Hi, Hello and welcome to “Book Cover Design Masterclass” – The best video series on book cover design using adobe Photoshop.. I am the team leader of the Netplus Studio Group and we are one of the leading Design Training Studios. If you are an aspiring freelance book cover designer or you want to learn how to create book covers for your own books, then this is the right course for you.

By the end of this course, you would have learnt to design eBook covers for digital books like kindle, book covers for print ready books like Amazon KDP books and 3D book covers for book marketing. You also learn how to apply the design process to any book from any book publishers like Lulu, IngramSpark, Apple Books and so on. These are easy to follow videos Instructions with step by step training all the way..

I will walk you through Book cover design process from start to finish and you will receive my individualized attention as i show you steps to create a creative and professional cover for books. Whether you are using Windows or Mac, you will be able to follow along just fine..

I have broken down “Book Cover Design Masterclass” into 5 Sections – 16 Video Series.

In Section 1, I will introduce you to course and to what to expect from the video series. We’ll start with introduction to the course and how to get the best from this training. I will show you the anatomy of a book cover,  all the essential design details and all required elements on a book cover before we go into the practical lessons.

In section 2, I will show you how to create eBook or digital book covers from start to finish.. We will cover eBook cover sizes for different eBook publishers and cover the standard eBook cover specifications for every major eBook publisher. Then i will show you how to design an eBook cover using a Kindle book cover as a practical example. I will show you how to work with all the essential Photoshop tools, how to work with shapes, photos, fonts, mask, brushes, colors, color profiles, adjustment layers, filters, how to organize your layers in an easy, professional way and finally how to save your eBook cover.

In section 3, i will show you to design covers for print ready books. I will show you the major book publishing companies to work with and we will go through the book cover specifications for every of these major publishers. I will show you the design sizes and specifications for all major book genre. Then i will show you how to design a cover using Amazon KDP book as a practical example. i will show you how to create KDP template for your amazon KDP book design using the cover calculator, how to work with book sizes and trims, bleeds, how to design the front, back and spine covers of the book. We will work with images, different effects/filters, add ISBN barcodes and save your final book cover design for print.