Looking for a Graphic Designer to spiff up my eBook

Discussion in 'Design' started by Sighter, Sep 3, 2011.

  1. #1
    Alright, I've been working on an eBook for a few months now and am reaching the final stages of it's development. I told myself I would just write and whenever I got done writing I would worry about how it looks. We'll I have a lot more content then I expected and right now it's pretty much a wall of text. I'm a decent graphic designer, but honestly I really don't want to have to deal with the extra workload.

    Now here comes my questions...

    Could you recommend anyone that could make my wall into a well organized eBook with pretty graphics every page or two?

    Do you know how much something like this would cost?


    Any help you can provide would be awesome.
     
    Sighter, Sep 3, 2011 IP
  2. ApocalypseXL

    ApocalypseXL Notable Member

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    #2
    Well you need a rare breed of designer for this one . You need someone who know InDesign it's print specific and a person like that won't work for 50 USD if he has any skills . The cost of the entire project would depend on it's magnitude .
     
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    pratik Notable Member

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    #3
    Well I can work on this.. I know InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop... Please PM me some more details like soe eBooks which you personally like... and the topic of your eBook. I can accordingly quote you.

    Thanks.
     
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    #4
    What on earth does Photoshop and Illustrator have to do with InDesign ? Also does this look like the Buy/Sell/Trade section ? Are you that desperate for work ? Can't you see that the OP is just looking for advice ?
     
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    #5
    Then again... if it's just turning a "wall of text" into a pretty eBook/PDF with a few graphics thrown in, then anyone competent with InDesign could do something decent in an hour (@ $50 p/hour).
    I reckon you could comfortably budget within $100ish, if you could find:
    1. Somebody that knows exactly what they're doing with InDesign.
    2. Somebody that knows they can knock the job out within an hour (2 at most).

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    Not sure if you made a typo or not, but ...
    "Its" is already possessive, no apostrophe is needed. I was never taught this in school. I had to learn it on the street. :D
     
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    My apologies for posting in Engrish :p

    Off topic : How many pages can you knock off in 1 hour ?
     
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    Given the text copy and the images, enough for a typical ebook.
    It ain't Vogue magazine :D
     
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