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How to Create and Design Paperback, eBook and Hardback Book Covers Using Canva for Amazon KDP

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Overview

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Learn How to Create Amazing Book Covers with Canva on any Budget!

Are you looking to create professional book covers for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) without having to spend hundreds of dollars using graphic designers or freelancers on sites like Fiverr?

Cover design has never been more accessible, thanks to Canva. With this course, you will learn all the steps to create professional-looking book covers on any budget and with no previous design experience.

 

Why this course?

Having created and designed over 350 books, including several Best-Sellers across the US, UK and Canada, I will show you the critical design elements essential to make your book cover stand-out to more customers, increasing the opportunity for more book sales.

Regardless of your budget or experience in design, a D.I.Y book cover is simple to create once you learn the basics outlined in this course. In addition, cover design can be great fun and highly rewarding, especially when you are armed with the skills to design your very own paperback, hardback and eBook covers.  

This course includes all of the essential steps from the core design principles, book formatting for paperbacks, hardbacks and ebooks, front and back cover design, the correct file and format to upload to Self-Publishing platforms such as Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital and Lulu.

In addition to this, you will learn practical know-how and advanced techniques to create your own original book cover design in Canva with little or no budget. 

The same principles and techniques you learn in this course can also be applied to future marketing and design strategies that can be used to other visuals, such as social media campaigns to increase book sales and brand awareness.

Enroll today and showcase your amazing book cover designs to the world!  

Syllabus

  • Promotional Video - Create Book Covers with Canva
  • Taking Action For Book Cover Creation
  • Main Contents of the Course
  • Introduction to Our Design Platform - Canva
  • Why Book Cover Design is so Important
  • The Key Elements of Book Cover Design
  • Choosing the Right Color Combinations
  • Amazon Book Cover Research
  • Front and Back Cover Design Elements
  • The Basic Design Elements to Use With Canva
  • Intro to Cover Trim Sizes on KDP
  • Cover Calculator Trim Size Tool
  • Creating our Templates for Covers in Canva
  • An Introduction to Book Cover Design
  • Front Cover Design
  • Back Cover Design
  • Hardback Formatting
  • Cover Design Alternative with BookBolt
  • Book Bolt Studio - Updated Lesson
  • eBook Formatting and Design
  • Getting Ready to Upload and Print
  • Publishing Options
  • How to Create a Book Mock-up for Free
  • Book Cover Design Project
  • Course Conclusion
  • My SkillShare Instructor Profile and Self-Publishing Courses

Taught by

Romney Nelson

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