Create a Book Cover with Me: Microsoft PowerPoint & Pixabay

Name: Create a Book Cover with Me: Microsoft PowerPoint & Pixabay
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Create a book cover using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 and free images from Pixabay. Learn book cover design and branding.

Created byBrian Jackson

Last updated 6/2019

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What you'll learn

Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 to make professional looking book covers
Learn how to manipulate text, colored boxes and images in PowerPoint
Learn how to configure PowerPoint to export images at 300 dpi resolution
Learn how to brand your book series or all books by an author

Course content

5 sections • 16 lectures • 2h 13m total length

Course Overview1:57
Explore PowerPoint fundamentals and apply techniques to design book covers using text, colored boxes, and images. Watch, pause, and repeat the steps to internalize the process and create similar covers.
Configuring PowerPoint to Export at 300 dpi5:23
Configure PowerPoint 2016 on Windows 10 to export book cover images at 300 dpi by adjusting the registry's export bitmap resolution. Restart PowerPoint to apply the change.

Creating a Page and Adding Visual Components12:49
Create a book cover in PowerPoint by resizing to a 9x6 inch portrait slide, adding images, text, and colored boxes behind the text, then export as JPEG.
Configuring the Book Cover Background7:13
Configure the book cover background in PowerPoint by removing a full-background image and applying format background options—solid, gradient, texture, or picture fills—while managing stacking order.
Inserting Text5:07
Learn to add and style cover text in PowerPoint, including title, subtitle, and author name, choose readable fonts and colors, and maintain a half-inch margin for paperback printing.
Configuring Text7:45
Learn to configure text in PowerPoint by adjusting fill, borders, color, and outlines, and apply text effects like shadows, reflections, glow, bevel, and rotation to create readable, eye-catching titles.
Inserting and Configuring Colored Boxes7:53
Create eye-catching book cover elements in PowerPoint by using colored boxes as backgrounds or text highlights, adjusting fill, outlines, shadows, and text alignment to make text pop.
Inserting and Configuring Images from Pixabay8:26
Learn how to insert and configure free images from Pixabay in PowerPoint, resize with aspect ratio, add borders or effects, and remove backgrounds to create clean book cover composites.
Inserting and Configuring Icons3:21
Insert and configure icons in PowerPoint to decorate book covers, resize with aspect ratio, and apply fill and outline, adding symbols like a best-seller star.
Manipulating Stacking Order5:05
Control the stacking order in PowerPoint by sending objects back or forward, using the selection pane to view and arrange top-to-bottom layers, and naming elements for clarity.
Loading Free Fonts Off the Internet5:28
Learn to load free fonts from the internet, install them on Windows, and apply bold, readable type in PowerPoint for book covers.

Recreating the "Big Bones" Cover18:08
Recreate the 'Big Bones' cover using Microsoft PowerPoint and Pixabay. Practice layering with image backgrounds, colored boxes, and typographic effects like shadows and cropping.
Recreating the "Book of Dreams" Cover19:42
Create a book cover in PowerPoint using an inset image, bold black glow and shadows, with layered text such as best selling author, complete trilogy, and book of dreams.
Recreating the "The Last Divine" Cover19:04
Recreate the 'The Last Divine' cover in PowerPoint by using a background image, cropping, and typography with Bondi Condensed, Engraver Empty, and Edwardian Script, plus glow and ghost text layering.

Requirements

You'll need a computer running a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint to follow along with the course

Description

Are you in need of a free book cover? Do you want to save money by doing it yourself? How about using the simplest tool and process available for creating your book cover? How about creating a book cover with me using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016?

In this course you'll learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 to make free professional looking book covers. This course teaches you how to combine text, colored boxes and images to produce stunning images suitable for use in self-publishing books. The course teaches by demonstrating each technique required after which you're expect to pause the video and replicate what was just demonstrated. By the end of this course you will have created three book covers with ease.

This course covers the following topics:

o Configuring PowerPoint to export images at 300 dpi

o Inserting and configuring text

o Inserting and configuring colored boxes to emphasis your text

o Inserting background and inset images

o Downloading free images from Pixabay

o Downing free fonts from Dafont

o Saving and exporting book covers

o Branding

If you're in need of a free book cover or are just interested in brushing up your PowerPoint skills then this is the course for you. You'll learn everything you need to know to use PowerPoint as a general purpose graphic design tool sans all the presentation slide and animation stuff addressed by most PowerPoint courses.

Learn by watch and then reinforce your learning by doing.

Don't forget Udemy's 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee. That should make your decision a simple one.

I'll see you in the classroom,

---Brian

Who this course is for:

Self-published authors interested in creating free book covers
Students new to PowerPoint wanting to pick up a new skill
Students experienced with PowerPoint wanting to brush up on their skills

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Introduction2 lectures • 7min

PowerPoint Fundamentals9 lectures • 1hr 3min

Book Cover Creation3 lectures • 57min

Additional Material1 lecture • 3min

Conclusion1 lecture • 3min

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