{"id":720,"date":"2014-03-18T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2017-04-28T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T02:43:56","slug":"publishing-kindle-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/publishing-kindle-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing on Kindle &#8211; Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re into <strong>Kindle publishing<\/strong> in any way, you&#8217;ll need to get a handle on having a decent <em>Kindle book cover<\/em>. Here are a few tips about what you can do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make a flat 2D graphical cover, not a fancy 3D like an eBook cover would be<\/li>\n<li>best if the Kindle Cover Page looks appealing &#8211; professional, nice and clean<\/li>\n<li>use relative font sizes \u00a0it&#8217;s all about composition, visual clarity and eye appeal<\/li>\n<li>have a series title on the Kindle Cover so you can link books, and people can find related material that&#8217;s yours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Use Photoshop to Create a Kindle Book Cover<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>create a basic kindle template that you can use over and over<\/li>\n<li>canvas size 938 wide x1250 high pixels &#8211;\u00a0transparent\u00a0layer<\/li>\n<li>for every element, create a layer &#8211; that makes it easier to edit and adjust\u00a0elements\u00a0if they are in individual layers<\/li>\n<li>acquire a royalty-free image &#8211; avoid copyright issues (you&#8217;ll need to be able to prove you have the<!--more--> rights to use the image)<\/li>\n<li>make sure the image relates to the topic of your Kindle Book<\/li>\n<li>ensure the image is at least as wide as 938 pixels. If the image is too small it won&#8217;t scale well &#8211; you want a clean, clear image<\/li>\n<li>keep the font style simple, legible and use only one or two types of font<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>How to Create a Kindle Cover Page in Photoshop<\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li>copy the image into your Kindle Book Cover template<\/li>\n<li>highlight, image, fill, colour of choice &#8211; use a colour from the image<\/li>\n<li>select a band full width for title to go and choose\u00a0colour\u00a0eg white<\/li>\n<li>select layer, click to change opacity<\/li>\n<li>add text box for title in large font<\/li>\n<li>add text box for author in medium font<\/li>\n<li>add text box for series title in smaller font<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done with your graphic, save it both as a psd for future editing, and as a jpg for loading to Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you could always outsource it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re into Kindle publishing in any way, you&#8217;ll need to get a handle on having a decent Kindle book cover. Here are a few tips about what you can do. make a flat 2D graphical cover, not a fancy 3D like an eBook cover would be best if the Kindle Cover Page looks appealing&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/publishing-kindle-graphic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publishing on Kindle &#8211; Graphics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,192,191],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-book","tag-kindle-cover"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-bC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}