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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

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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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted December 12, 2014

What does a bestselling book cover look like? (And would you know it if you saw it?)

Today I deleted some images out of my portfolio. I had over 300 cover samples, which make my site run slowly, so I wanted to get it down to around 200. Choosing which images not to display was [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Book cover critiques, book design tips
Posted July 28, 2014

Why book cover design is the best job in the world

I get stressed and busy sometimes, but some nights (like tonight) my job rocks. I’m working on one cover, the author wants a sketch of pre-1757 London in black and white, with a color photo [...]

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 Why I’m so expensive (how much should you pay for book cover design revisited)
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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips, current projects
Posted May 31, 2014

Why I’m so expensive (how much should you pay for book cover design revisited)

When I started designing book covers a couple years ago, I remember looking at designers who were charging over $700 for a print cover and thinking they were charging way too much money. How [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips, current projects
Posted November 15, 2013

Another long (but satisfying) book cover design process

I’ve been working on Brian Smith’s thriller “Purified” for a couple of months. Like most challenging projects, we reached a few dead-ends before pushing through and [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips, current projects
Posted October 30, 2013

Oh the difficulties in choosing a final book cover design!

A problem I often face with authors is paralysis of having too many options. 3 options to choose from is good. But I usually make at least 10 samples, in each round. So we are always selecting [...]

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