Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Why You Should Use Graphic Templates

When it comes to graphics, most Internet marketers shy away from using graphic templates whether it’s eBook covers, logo designs, website layouts or promotional banners because they firmly believe that by using graphic templates, they are tarnishing their own business. They want to own a unique identity and hence will always find a professional graphicdesigner to do the job. Well, you’re in for a big surprise!

When you purchase a graphic template, you will be able to customize it to an extent or even build a totally new design based on it! What’s the point of using the template then, you say? Well, it serves as a source of inspiration and ideas for a totally new design. You can’t derive anything from a blank canvas, right?

On top of that, you are actually saving a lot of precious time that you can otherwise spend on more important matters like developing new products or market your products. When you buy a pre-made template, you only need to edit a thing or two to give it an identity of your own, and that gives you more time and flexibility to work on other stuff.

Okay, let’s say you argue that hiring a designer to do the job is equally fast. That may be true but don’t forget, hiring a professional designer to do a custom design for you will cost you a lot of money. Unless you need a totally unique identity that you are aiming to establish firmly in your niche market, you don’t need to get a designer to design it for you.


Not all graphic templates are suitable, so you have to be careful when choosing one. Consider quality over the price, and you’re on your way to creating a positive image for your business while saving more time for more productive chores!
  
                                                         
                                                         


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

TIPS FOR BOOK COVER DESIGN




If you want to design your book cover, here are the list of useful tips and tricks to consider for your designs. Tutorial and inspiration for your book cover projects. Good luck.
Bookcover design tips
Not all can design their book covers themselves, but majority can do it. And you can also hire a freelancer of any microjob site to get the job done. But still you still have to have the idea of how exactly you want your book cover to look like  and give description to any freelancer you want to hire.
Generate excitement, grab attention. The main goal and objective of any book cover is to generate excitement and catch the attention of any one at first sight. The cover is one of the best tools in any body marketing arsenal. That is the more reason you need and should create something that will stop people in their tracks and evoke interest. The book cover is the hook that will help you to promote your book.
Book genre is very important
The book cover should have the ability to reveal the genre which the book belong. Below is an example of two book covers. It is very easy to understand what kind of books they are right in front of you.
A really good book cover “speaks” to its readers through choice of typography, imagery and metaphor.
If you have a non- fiction book, its cover should communicate the tone of the book. Pay attention to its scope. It is really amazing when the book cover tell about the scope of the book giving the readers chance to manage their time.

Human beings are visual creatures, so provide a careful consideration to the book’s imagery and stand out of the packs. Hope am able to inspire you to explore and play around with various graphics design elements. The cover is a very important marketing tool so use it wisely. Do not leave the design to the last hour!


 Be bold, the design should draw people attention, providing just enough intrigue that they just have to buy it immediately.


Monday, April 21, 2014

Getting concept for your book cover designs


Getting concept for your book cover designs

To start with creating your kind of astonishing cover for your books, you have to make a decision on the kind of message you want to send out there.
Ask yourself some of the following questions:
  •      What is the book’s single-minded value proposition?
  •   What targeted audience are you looking for? 
  •     Inspirational and aspiration, achievement and success, power and knowledge, passion and romance, murder and revenge?


 Getting down to the motivation, emotion and incentives will assist you to generate tons of ideas or visual metaphors that determine the image choice, color , typography and the layout the help to capture what the book is all about. 
see sample below: