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  Subscribe on YouTube! Posted In:  Compositing Photoshop Tutorials  |  Watch on YouTube Creating realistic book cover mock-ups in Photoshop can help you to imagine how your photography portfolio, novel, or non-fiction book will look like in the hands of your readers! In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a mock-up template that you can use whenever you want! If you want to follow the tutorial step-by-step with the same files used, you can download the  photo template here . Unlike other tutorials, I will not be using the Distort option found under the Free Transform as it can mess up the original aspect ratio of your image. This technique often results in an unnatural, stretched-out image that is not convincing enough to be a mock-up book cover. Table of contents Create an Aspect Ratio Template  Create a Selection Place the Book Cover Fix the Details Retain the Shadow Imitate the Paper Effect How to Change the Image Book Cover Mockups in Photosh...

Book cover design Photoshop tutorial in less than ten layers Book cover design generally takes longer to prepare for than it actually does to put together. It took me around 45 minutes to gather the elements I needed for the book cover and only 15 minutes to actually design it. I have kept the design very simple so that a beginner could achieve similar results. So, let’s cut the talk and show you how you can very easily design a book cover like the one above. Book cover template Now is the time to open up Photoshop and that book cover template we created in part one complete with guides for bleed that is set to CMYK so that our end result is print ready. Our book is based on a 5.5″ x 8.5″ end product. When you go searching for your images to use in your book, this translates to 1688 × 2625 pixels because of the difference between 300ppi print ready resolution and the web’s paltry...