Hi everyone. A monogram is the initials in your name. My name is Brian J. In America we have three names so three initials mine is B. I could sew it into my robe if I wanted to and put it on my letterhead.
We want to go to the image manipulation window here. The one that I usually have on the far right and you should have too. Notice Create has a cascading menu. You can tell that it does because it has this little arrow over here to the right. All of these that have little arrows to the right cascade that means that when you roll over them another menu pops up to the right. It cascades further.
So what Logos does is it runs a scripting language either Python or a thing called Script-Fu to automate GIMP functions and automatically pump out images. Let me give you an example.
I say go ahead and okay and up comes a new image. It automatically generated this image for me with various visual effects. Images in the GIMP are composed of transparent layers that overlay each other, and apply multiple effects to produce a finished image. I just click the eye in the Layers window and the background disappears.
I now have no background so this is a transparent image. I can get rid of the top effect and just look at the drop shadow for this. I can remove the drop shadow and I can bring in the top effect, so this is the way that you can modify the logos that you produce.
Here I have my monogram in here already. Look at all the controls here. I have Chrome saturation and lightness. Play with these controls and see what they do. Look at that. Let me show you another trick. Look at this. I can wink out here in the layers menu by clicking on the eye. The marble background, the drop shadow, and even the Chrome and just have gold if I think that looks best to represent my monogram. Go up and say create logos again.
Notice that the GIMP will just pop up multiple image manipulation windows and I can just keep accumulating them on the screen until I get the one that tells me. Go ahead and build your logo. Play with the logo options that come up and be sure to wink out layers here in the Layers window to further modify your logo.
Hi, this next mission should be considerably shorter. Because the web graphics are kind of smeared all over. You can create rounded buttons. I can control the size of the font and how fun it is in all the various colors. I would imagine that this is unimpressed, this is rolled over, and this is pressed. I just keep getting brighter and remember that I can take any of these. There you go. If you want to add a visual component to your e-Book, then you can create a simple 3D cover image.
Creating a cover or e-Book image is completely optional, but recommended for best conversions and success.
Other sellers will use very professional looking cover images to market their e-Book. Whether you decide to create a cover or not, just keep this in mind: It would be better to have no cover, than to have an ugly, unprofessional looking cover.
Also, if you are going to sell your eBook with companies such as Clickbank, Amazon Kindle , Createspace. To create a cover , you will need to use a graphic design or image editing software program. There are various programs you can use to do this. You can download a free trial of Photoshop at adobe. Corel Paint Shop Pro is another great software package you can use to create a cover image. It is less expensive, and you can also download a free trial by going to corel. Microsoft Paint and Gimp are both free programs, however, Gimp is a much better program.
You can also create a cover image with this software. You can download and use Gimp. In fact, this entire tutorial will be using Gimp, and to get your own copy or to find out more, then download the great free photo editing software. Now, I will go into a detailed tutorial on how you can create a simple, attractive e-Book cover design.
I will use Gimp for this tutorial since it is available as a free download, however, if you use another software program the process will be very similar. Before you start to create your image, you should think about the title, the colors you want to use, and any other design aspects you need to consider. This is a great way to gather ideas for your own design. Also, you may want to sketch a rough design on paper before you use the software.
When you are ready, you can begin to create your cover. Also, let me briefly mention that I have a great online guide that covers the following information: How to write and sell an eBook , how to get an ISBN for an eBook , how to copyright an eBook , as well as the best way to sell eBooks. You may be interested in those subjects as well. The process of designing an eBook cover usually needs to be completed in this order: Insert the background color or image preferably with a slight gradient , add any borders, insert any images, and then write the text.
Next, you will create the side of the e-Book, distort the image to make it look 3-D, draw the remaining portion of the e-Book, create a shadow, and finally create a reflection or shadow to give the appearance of a true 3-D image optional.
First, open up the Gimp software. You will then see a small box display that asks you the image size. For the cover, select about width X height. This should be enough room to create your image. This will be the front cover. Now, at this point you should think about the basic background color that you want to use for your e-Book. For this example, I am going to use a simple maroon background.
Also, to create a shadow effect, I am going to use a gradient to fill the background. To do this, I first select a gradient color. Share This Story! Related Posts. January 5th, 0 Comments. January 1st, 0 Comments. November 28th, 0 Comments. November 17th, 0 Comments. October 28th, 0 Comments. October 17th, 0 Comments.
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July 26th, 0 Comments. July 6th, 1 Comment. July 5th, 1 Comment. Henry Baum March 9, at am - Reply. Angela Booth March 10, at pm - Reply. Ron Fritsch March 12, at pm - Reply. Jon Konrath March 24, at am - Reply. This is amazing. Thanks so much for sharing! Ariel Ceylan. Leave A Comment Cancel reply Comment. This site uses cookies. Whenever you want to see what your cover-in-progress looks like without the template, click the eye icon for the template layer in the Layers — Brushes panel.
Again, while editing your cover, never click on the text fields in the Canvas Size, Print Size, or Scale Image dialogs. Clicking in those fields seems to cause Gimp to recalculate the image size or resolution, which can introduce size errors later. Un-hide all the layers that you want to appear in your cover, by clicking the eye icon for that layer in the Layers — Brushes panel. Click Export. Wait for the export filename dialog to close; it may take several seconds, as Gimp generates the PDF file.
Close the modified. Click Open In the resulting dialog, click Select All. That should select the one page in the file. The dialog Width and Height in pixels should update, and should now match the measurements you made earlier of the Template file.
The image size in pixels should match the measurements you made of the template file. PDF size problems I use Gimp 2.
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