Hey, does anyone know of a free (or very inexpensive) template/guide to making good looking ebook covers? Most of the good looking covers I am seeing are almost identical in style, there has to be a secret I am missing out on Something that would look along the lines of these: http://www.coveractionpro.com/ http://diyebookcover.com/ P.S. I generally suck at photoshop.
The examples you showed are just simple web 2.0 stuff. Personally, I hate that style. But that is just my personal opinion and doesn't matter much since the majority of people do like it. Anyways, you need lots of colors, gloss, gradients and reflections. This should probably help: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/10/web-20-tutorials-round-up/ -Greg
If you would like to have designed some really good quality ebook covers (realistic looking ones, just like photos of books) I might could make you a good offer. That's the stuff I'm doing every day ;-) Just take a look at some samples at http://TheDesignHouse.uber.com/samples . Not made with low quality photoshop actions ;-)