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By Derek Murphy
In book design, book design tips
Posted May 11, 2018

Free book cover design software and templates

After designing over a thousand book covers (and earning about a quarter of a million bucks from my design business) I decided I’d rather write full-time than design covers for a living. [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book covers animated, book design, book design tips
Posted February 8, 2017

$30,000 worth of beautiful premade book covers for indie authors

I spent lots of time looking through premade covers. I find way more than I can ever buy (in my last shopping trip I added over $20,000 in covers to my cart). But I want to share these great [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book covers animated, book design, book design tips
Posted December 9, 2015

How to make an ANIMATED book cover that blows people’s minds

Yesterday I saw something on Twitter that blew my mind: it was a promotional image of a book; but inside the book cover the pieces were moving around. It was amazing. So I started researching [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted December 2, 2015

How to become a book cover designer

A lot of young designers (or old designers!) reach out and ask me how they can become a book cover designer or get started in this business. If you want to start book cover design… watch [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted March 18, 2015

Is your book cover trying to do too much?

Clients usually start out describing all their characters, a pivotal scene, a hundred details, the expressions on everybody’s faces and the way their bodies are posed. That won’t [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted March 16, 2015

How to embed fonts with Photoshop (and do you really need to?)

If you’re like me, you use Photoshop for graphic design. It’s better for blending layers and images. However there is some limitation with text – one common and frustrating [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Book cover critiques, book design tips
Posted February 10, 2015

How to get exactly the book cover you want (and ruin your writing career).

Several months ago I was helping an author try to make a book cover. They had something very ugly, and I made something much better. I was working mostly for free (something I’m trying to [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted January 27, 2015

Principles of bestselling book cover design

A video of me talking about book cover design (and trying not to look uncomfortable on camera). I ramble a little but there’s some good info here.  

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted January 27, 2015

What makes a good book cover design?

I enjoyed this video about book cover design, as I’m starting to make my own videos. She mentions: 1. Contrasting colors 2. One color scheme 3. Matching sets (for series) And some other [...]

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 How to make a book cover design for any genre using Photoshop
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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted January 19, 2015

How to make a book cover design for any genre using Photoshop

You can do a lot of fun stuff with Photoshop. I wanted to show how genre distinctions in book cover design is mostly about fonts and color, and maybe some text overlays. So I took a couple pretty [...]

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