The ability to create professional looking covers is a must if you’d like to start generating meaningful income selling LC books on the Kindle Direct Publishing Platform.
A great way to get professional results without being a professional designer is by using high-quality seamless patterns from reputable stock image sites as backgrounds on your covers.
In today’s Affinity Designer tutorial I’m going to show you how you can find and manipulate this type of vector artwork to create beautiful, professional looking covers for your LCB.
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Thanks so much for this helpful video! I remember in a different post, you mentioned using vector images since they do not lose their resolution as you enlarge the image. Do you also use only vector backgrounds in your designs? I noticed on Creative Fabrica that many of the backgrounds come in PNG and JPG format. Some of these designs are great, but I am hesitant to use non-vector graphics. What are your thoughts?
You’re welcome, Katie! PNGs are fine to use as long as they are 300 ppi at the size you’d like to use them. If you place them into your design and have to enlarge them then you’ll lose resolution. But if you place them into your design and they are at the appropriate size, or if you need to make them smaller, then you’ll be good to go!