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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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 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 7, 2013

How long does book cover design take? Until it’s DONE: lessons from a challenging cover design case study

Most of my covers take a few weeks. This one took almost a year. The author paid in November of 2012. The title is “The Oppressor’s Toolkit” so I started with these:   [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted October 4, 2013

How to make an ugly book cover: a guide for the visually impaired

The temptation to make your own book cover and saving money is strong. And it can be done. There are no inherent drawbacks to doing it yourself; but without the experience you are likely to make [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted April 28, 2012

How much should I pay for book cover design services?

When I started designing covers, I charged a few hundred bucks and couldn’t believe some designers charged over a thousand dollars for book cover design. Here are some factors that impact [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Uncategorized
Posted October 10, 2011

Free Createspace Book Covers: Using the CS Cover Generator

What’s the purpose of your book? Why are your writing it, and who do you expect to read it? Recently I’ve met several authors who don’t plan to pay for a book cover, because [...]

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