Create KDP Covers Easily & Fast FOR FREE! 3 Different Ways To Create Low Content Book Covers
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I show you 3 different ways that you can quickly and easily create covers for your KDP no content and low content books using free and paid software.
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Hey, Caroline! You can rotate your text in Canva. After you type your text, use the "rotate" button to the left of the "move" button under the text.
Thanks for the tip! 😃
@@MyFreedomEmpire Any time! Thanks for what you do.
Dear Caroline! I really like your videos. They help me a lot to start my KDP endeavor. I hope YT rewards you handsomely.
Thank you so much!
Great video! Thank you
Thanks!
Hey there, just wanted to say that I really like your videos. Simple, full of information and works well when I speed it up (which I do for everything). Thank you!
Thank you so much!! 😊
Yay!! Look what I found, Caroline!! Thank you!
I love your site a lot, but I've made more than plain jane KDP covers using Canva. I guess it helps that I have Photoshop experience already? I notice that Canva has a few of the shortcuts that Photoshop uses. It's not super good with layers or keeping them separate, but i use it more for text-based graphics now. Photoshop (as much as I love it) is too expensive for me now..
Thank you. I agree Canva is good for basic designs or just text based designs. Photopea is a free software which is basically the same as Photoshop.
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THANK YOU! I needed to see this video "in the worse way," lol! I was looking for some different KDP Cover Creators, and this videos, showed me exactly what I needed to see (even saved me some money in the process). I look forward to more helpful videos such as this one (I just joined your channel fam).
Thanks so much!!
thanks.
God willing, your eyes are very beautiful
Thank you. Can you provide us with a video explaining how to enter the seven keywords and what is the secret?
I can definitely add this to my video schedule. 😀
Thanks for that, i'll have look at your other videos 💯
Thank you!! 😊
Q: Time management video - can you make one. I see as you explain here something is missing (too many options) a video of creating a work system. But as I said before in one of your videos when people are not getting paid or waiting for a sale which could take place in an hour, a few days and then of course- getting paid 90days later and making a pittance. Make a video (How to Scale Up!) When it can take a long time to make money in this game- making a product will get easier and easier and easier- but in the mean time (its like swimming) everyone is floundering in the water- making mistakes- some even want to give the kids cookies and candy for dinner just to keep Ur sanity and move forward. Why and when to scale up! If U have 1000 books and 20% of them make money- seems to me the problem is not the keywords but the number of books. Its like base ball- as long as the balls are being tossed to the batter- eventually he will hit the ball out of the part.
Thanks for your awesome content Caroline! Question, do you know of any free versions of Photoshop or Illustrator?… whoops never mind I just got to where you show Photopea, thanks sweetie!!
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Hi ! I also use free version Canva . But its not uploading book cover. It says it does not upload any file more than 25 MB
Hello! Do you mean you are getting this error in KDP? Or in Canva?
@@MyFreedomEmpire I am getting this error in Canva when I upload book cover for kdp in Canva for editing
@@komaljeet7884 interesting, I’ve never had that problem. Perhaps try making the file smaller, you can just Google small pdf and lots of free options will come up.
Hi, if the cover size is 6x9inch, how come you have put in 12.7x 9.25inch in canva...that seems very big size? Thanks
Hello! You create the back cover, spine and front cover in one file.
Hi, there. There is no problem adding a text box for the spine in Canva and turning it vertical, then aligning it onto the centre line of the book.
True!
Can Adobe Photoshop make those really beautiful covers for fiction novels? What tool can I use for that?
Yes, you could use Photoshop or Illustrator for that.
Hi Caroline! I want to create hand drawn book covers and scan them - is this doable or completely unheard of? (I'm an artist) Thanks for all your helpful videos!
I don't see why not as long as the scan is high enough quality for Amazon 😀
Can I use Affinity Photo?
Yes, I believe it's a program similar to Photoshop.
I'm thinking that the reason you're so down on Canva is that you've clearly never bothered to learn all of its capabilities. This became totally obvious when you said you couldn't put the title on the spine of a book cover using Canva. You 100 percent can. It's as simple os entering the title in a text box and using the circular, two headed arrow that appears below the box and swinging the type box by 90 degrees. Voila!
You're right - I hadn't spent a lot of time using Canva. I have since learnt how to use it and have done an updated video on creating covers with Canva as a lot of people don't have access to graphic design software. However, especially after using it more in depth recently, I believe that using a professional graphic design software will create much better covers than Canva, especially if you want to make anything more than a text based cover.
I was so confused, because the first video I watched in this channel was all about using canva and how cool it is. So it was really weird watching this now…!
I understand that opinions and experiences will change over time, but if the feedback changes this much, I would say re-do this video, to account for your more up to date insight. I personally feel like this is actually doing a disservice to the viewers at the moment.
@@lidiacardoso123 As per my previous comment I have made an updated canva video.
@@MyFreedomEmpireEmpire RUclips videos are forever unless you specifically remove them. I came across the video first in which you clearly had no idea of what you were talking about. You left it up. You didn't remove it.
I use the Adobe Creative Suite as well as Canva. Adobe has a steep learning curve which Canva does not. I've found that once you learn the ins and outs of Canva (which takes a couple of hours), you can do some rather remarkable things with it...even making more than text-based book covers.
Hi Caroline! thank you so much for your videos. You were the reason I gave me the push! thanks again. I wanted to ask I am so confused atm. when I advertise a 120 page book on my product page...and I have 4 pages front matter. does that mean they customer is getting 116 lined pages? or they get 120 lined pages but I create a template for 124 pages?
Also. If my title starts each word with common letters. Do I insert in title box the same? with each starting with common letters?
I'm having issues with my first upload. so trying to trouble shoot.
You're welcome! Oh I'm so happy to hear that! 😀
It all depends o how many pages you want, so if you want the book to have 120 lined pages, then that's how many you create, then you add the 4 pages of front matter which will give a total of 124 pages. If you don't want any more than 120 pages in total, then you would only make 116 line pages. The amount of pages is really up to you.
Sorry, what do you mean by common letters? What kinds of issues are you having?
@@MyFreedomEmpire thanks for responding! Sorry. In my country we sometimes say common letters (broken English 🤭) but really I meant lower case. I eventually changed when I was trying to troubleshoot errors. I spent hours trying to upload.
Basically I did 120 lined pages but my front matter is 4 and I'm unsure if that affected my cover as a result.
I ended up doing 116 lined pages and 4 front matter. Total 120
But i figured out issue. What happened i created my own lined pages using the underscore and did a bit of a background which was within the guidelines. Keep getting error. But when i uploaded a lined page template it went through and got approved. I Basically wanted to customize each page so it won't be just plain lines.
I guess my doc wasn't up to standard and i couldn't figure it out.
Nor am i very verse to remove background or edit very well. Now learning.
I'm only using canva atm.
I'm looking to try to create a lined doc so i can customize for each book with a little artwork.
But my question regarding the title was does it matter if my book name is all lower case letters and in my title I use upper case to start each word.
@@waheedahosein9496 Right, I see! 😊 Use upper case letters at the beginning of each word in your title.
@@MyFreedomEmpire thank you! Of course I'll do the next time around. I did the rest lower case to match when i was trouble shooting. Now i know better!
Quick question. Do we need to embed if we're creating covers and blank docs on canva?
@@waheedahosein9496 You’re welcome 😊 If you’re using Canva, just saving as PDF is sufficient.
Hello, I love your videos, I have a question regarding copyright...
1. If I buy the images on the creative fabrica... I can immediately use them in my books, without modifying them?...
2. If I download the images from the vecteezy page, do I have to edit them too? or can be used without problems?...
what's the way I'm doing... I use the indesign cc program, I edit the vecteezy images from color to black and white, I also buy creative fabrica... I make a total of 120 images for the book, I pay the cover to fiverr for 15 USD,.... I'm doing fine?...
I also pay designers each 200 USD, for the whole book + cover and back cover... the illustrations are unique and original... question: I'm spending a lot of money for 120 images, and covers, all the complete work?, I'm paying for a professional intermediate designer service...
I would like to know your opinion and experience... the goal is 2000k a month starting; I already have 3 books, 2 published and 1 in revision... I have 3 other books to receive on February 5th... Am I on the right track? how I can be more productive... I'm doing quality and quantity work... only 1 month working with books..
Thank you...
Thank you ! 😀
1. I don't use Creative Fabrica so I would read the licence agreement for the image you want to use and it will tell you how you can use it.
2. Same as above, check the licence of their images to find out what you can and can't do with them.
As long as the licences don't prohibit them being used in colouring books, printed books or print on demand products then using them in your colouring book will be ok.
I think creating your own (or outsourcing) unique images for colouring books is definitely the way to go and by the sounds of it, you are on the right track but you just need to be aware that the colouring book niche is highly competitive. You'll need to have some patience and perseverance but I definitely think that you can make money if your books are high quality and you help promote them either through ads or through pushing them via social media and building an email list.
I would think that best approach to starting any business (talking from personal experience) it’s best to spend as little money as possible, and once business starts making money, to put that back into business to make it better. If you spend so much in the beginning and god forbid it doesn’t earn you any money you become too discouraged. And if you pay others to do all your work, you are not putting your 100% or even 50% in your business and it will eventually go on the back burner.
A helpful video. A suggestion for your video's. The barely audible background drumbeat music, is a certain irritation, at least to myself. You might consider losing it, as it distracts from the helpful information presented.
Thanks for your feedback!
Hi caroline I use free Buck bolt interiors. Are there rights on it ?
The Book Bolt interiors are free for you to use in your books.
@@MyFreedomEmpire I have another question please. When I download the interior designs from BookBolt, I put it on Amazon in order to see the size and shape of the book, I see that the image quality has lost its quality. is this normal?
Sorry, not fully clear on what you mean. Do you mean you upload the interior into your KDP account, then upload your cover and then look at it in the preview page? Is this where it is blurry?
Yeah. When I download the interior to my Amazon account. I see that the image quality is not the same as what I saw in the book Bolt. Is this normal ??
I love your videos but the music in the background is so annoying- it’s a drum beating on one beat CONTINUOUSLY 😱 and this is how it is with most background music. I don’t like it because it’s one beat playing continuously. Listen to it in the fast playback speed , like everyone does who listen to learning videos coz of saving time, and you would understand what I mean. Plus I think majority of retired or retiring people look for such videos and most of us have some OCDs , which might be making us go crazy 😜 listening to this drum 🥁 beating continuously- don’t mind my saying it but just a suggestion.
Thanks for the feedback 😆
Yah you just twist the text with the handle below the box
When I uploaded my KDP cover template to canva, I was told the file size is too large. So frustrating!
KDP can be frustrating until you get the hang of all their guidelines. You can get all the sizing info from the KDP support website so you can try to get it all within the rules before uploading. 😄
@@MyFreedomEmpire Thanks very much for your advice. Can you tell which KDP support website I can turn to?
How do you adjust the template size if you don’t have photoshop?
It seems people get lazy with sizing options
There are standard sizes that customers prefer to buy so it makes sense to make what customer want. Also KDP only allows expanded distribution for certain sized books.
@@MyFreedomEmpire yes true lol i was referring to the poor quality of the centering on some independant covers.. i admit i had an issue with one of my books where the front cover border was too close to the spine. I wouldn't leave those types of errors, ever. I have a proof copy and i dont feel happy about it so i know a customer wont.
in other news, i literally 'play all' of your vids while niche searching. i like your style and very helpful info, deffo worth both our time lol thank you
So you spent 15 minutes criatique others , I thought I would give you input on your video. First your titlel is misleading, you don't discuss 3 free ways to make a cover. Only 2. Photoshop is anything but free. If you wanted to show an Adobe product, show their freee app, then discuss what you dont get compared to PSP Second you spent over 15 minutes not on apps but on critiques of people's covers. You should have incorporated that into showing the apps Finally, the one app you covered that was in your opinion the best, you took over 20 minutes to get to. I did speed your video up to get there. And you were wrong. 2 years after makkng the video its still up and running. Just input, for your future videos not trying to give you a hard time. Really
the music drives me nuts.... too repetitive... sheesh.. we don't need music here
Sorry, didn’t mean to send that.(screwed up last sentence. This constructive criticism video is great but generally you’re pretty repetitive. My apologies.
Thanks for your feedback! 😀 There are lots of channels here on RUclips that make videos with similar topics to mine so I have no doubt you'll find one that is more suitable to what kind of video's you enjoy watching 🙂 If you haven't already check out Paul Marles, Rory Marles, The Home Boss, Rachel Harrison-Sund, Stackin Profit, Shashwat Ashiya - they are some of my favs and you may enjoy their videos' more than mine. Hope that helps!
@@MyFreedomEmpire You’re so sweet. I probably came across as really bitchy which was not my intention at all. Thanks for taking the time to make your videos and share your knowledge.
Your recommendations are much appreciated. I have watched Paul Marles who is great. Rachel Harrison-Sund is also good but her videos are too long for me. Thanks so much. Best, Sarah
No, not at all 😊 I do find that most people who make videos about this topic make them quite a bit longer than the RUclips standard.
Hi Caroline. I’ve watched a few of your videos and they’re really good. I’m sorry to say but they were all TOO long. (this constructive criticism video people watch about 12 minutes
Disagree! People who are serious and looking for training/education on these things will watch much longer than 12 minutes! I certainly do!
Also disagree, You cant fit useful info in short vids