Free cover design setup

Hi folks!
Now when you order our deluxe version, you're eligible to receive free consultation and/or setup of your cover design. We take all the confusion out! Simply place your order, and email us your book's specifications, along with copy and any images you would like to use—and if you have a certain template design in mind. We will assemble your initial design in about a days' time, and email your BookCoverPro file for you to further tweak and edit. It's that simple!

Cheers,
BookCoverPro

Custom Cover Design Services

No time to design? Do you need a customized cover, or just some direction on an existing cover? We offer full customized cover services from scratch or from one of our templates. With over 10 years' experience as a professional book cover designer, I create covers that sell. Let me help you get your book noticed with a design that parallels or exceeds big house design. This month we are running a special on our pricing.

For more information, visit http://www.bookcoverpro.com/customcovers.html

Free software for cropping & resizing images

I just found a couple great little programs that let you crop and/or resize your images. Quick, painless, and FREE. Try these out:

Resizing: http://www.resizr.com/
Cropping: http://www.download.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10021962.html?tag=mncol;txt

No money made here, just happy to help out my friends.

Angie

Creating Covers for Lulu

Several of you have written lately about how to better comply with Lulu's stringent size requirements for a full spread cover file. Lulu only deals with points, which is a unit of measurement preferred by some printers, and this is a very precise measurement. To use BookCoverPro with Lulu, we would need to know the conversion from points to inches or cm.

For simplicity's sake, and to avoid lots of decimals, we've chosen to convert to inches, which is:

1 inch = 72 postscript points.

For example, when you need to set up a cover that is 1263.996 points x 825 points, simply go to this nifty little converter at http://www.convertunits.com/from/inches/to/PostScript+points

Type in your specs, convert to inches, and you have your conversion! Keep in mind that BookCoverPro allows up to 6 decimal points, so you will have to round off to the nearest hundred-thousandth... But that shouldn't pose much of a problem.

Cheers,
Angie