This is a perfect guide book for beginners and amateur graphic artist, also a great start for aspiring covermakers/graphic artists. You can find templates, pictures, pngs and other stuff regarding cover making.
[credits to ivy-le for suggesting this tutorial. THANKS!]
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If you are into contests and have joined my "Graphic Constests", you probably saw my banners in every chapter of the contest book.
I am using a picmonkey and befunky.com for this tutorial. But the process will be the same for whatever editing app you will use. It's just that the settings is not particularly the same.
size: 880 x 320 (I don't know if it's the official size, but that's what I am using)
FIRST
[open a background for your banner]
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(I know my folder of background and stuff is a mess.)
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(So for me I'm gonna rotate the photo) (I'm using the picmonkey.com)
SECOND
resize
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