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Have a look at this site for affordable and stylish ready-made as well as custom-made covers:
http://ebookindiecovers.com/

I design my own book covers (as I'm sure a lot of self published authors do), but I do have a degree in digital design. If anyone is interested in having me create their Snook covers, than please view my profile for examples of my work.

Bookmarking the website. Thanks Melody! Looks great. :)

If you're looking for an book cover artist, I highly recommend Steven Novak (novakillustration.com). He did the cover for my short story and I'm definitely looking forward to working with him again.

@Rebecca. Try Gimp. You can download it for free (just google it). It takes a year or ten to learn how to use, but once you do, you can do with it almost everything you can do with Photoshop. Basics should be fairly easy to learn though.

Thanks for the tip, Kevin. :) I'll check it out!

You can always crowdsource your design too at 99designs.com. The way that site works is your post a description and a bounty. People then come up with designs. I've submitted a couple designs as a designer and am really thinking of using them as an author.

I can do great layouts and photo manipulations, just can't draw worth beans . . . :)

I had a photographer friend of mine do it. She's phenomenal and I'm so glad I decided to go with her. Check it out: http://adventuresoflifeandliterature....

I created my own originally, but then found that working with a professional gives much better results. I did this for my first book, and covered the process of coming up with a final cover in my blog posts.

http://karldrinkwater.blogspot.com/20...

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http://karldrinkwater.blogspot.com/20...

[The original cover can be see nhere: http://karldrinkwater.blogspot.com/20...]

I'll do a similar series of posts for the cover evolution of my new book at some point, since I find it fascinating to see what a professional can do.

I design personalized book covers for $30.00. You can view some of the designs I've done here.

Nice work, Christine! Do you do full covers for print books, or just ebook covers?

Christine wrote: "I design personalized book covers for $30.00. You can view some of the designs I've done here."

Karen wrote: "Nice work, Christine! Do you do full covers for print books, or just ebook covers?

Yes, I design print covers too. I'm experienced with CreateSpace and Lulu.

I'm a cover artist and I'm actually running a huge sale right now. I do custom covers (Print & Ebook), Premade Covers (Print & Ebook) and most other services too. If you purchase a front cover from me, I only charge $25 extra to do the print version.

Feel free to ask any questions. :)

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My cover artist (Steven Novak) is selling premade covers for $50:

http://novakillustration.com/premade....

Looking for an affordable custom or pre-made cover?
Need a banner or facebook timeline cover? I can create one for you.

Check out my site and portfolio here.
http://rpmasdesign3.wix.com/rpmasdesigns

Sample of pre-made cover available



Sample of custom cover available

I'm co-owner of an ebook cover and book trailer website. I'd love for you to take a look! www.3rustedspoons.com

I'm checking all those, great covers !

Dreamscape wrote: "I'm a cover artist and I'm actually running a huge sale right now. I do custom covers (Print & Ebook), Premade Covers (Print & Ebook) and most other services too. If you purchase a front cover from..."

I love your website, and covers!

Some of my covers I've designed myself using shutterstock pics and photoshop Elements

This one I'm really proud of cause I had to use multiple pics for different effects.

Here:


Then I have a series where I hired an artist (Candra) to draw the cover while I added the titles et al.

Here's one of them:



I admit I'm really getting into creating covers. Although I'm not confident enough to design other people's covers. I hope that if I keep practicing I can offer some for sale one day. I really like those premade covers! :D

I do custom print & eBook covers mostly but have decided to offer premade covers as well, it helps my creativity flow and sharpens my design skills. Here are samples of the premade covers:



You can buy them at http://www.selfpubbookcovers.com/INee...

Each of the covers can be upgraded to print version.