Red Pill Press || Cover design services

This briefl tutorial will give you details on the Red Pill Press (RPP) Cover Design Service including information on how to complete you own cover design.

If you choose to purchase RPP's Cover Design Service you will be given your own personal Graphic Designer to bring your ideas to life.

The Designer will contact you via e-mail to introduce themself and begin taking information on colors and graphics ideas you may have. Remember, the package for cover design includes one cover. If you work with your designer to complete a cover, you accept it, and change your mind later, then the cover still exists and has already been completed, and any new or different covers will constitute a new cover design package purchase.

Please be sure of what you want since Cover Design is not always easy and the time and expertise of the designer should be taken into account.

Should you decide that you wish to create your own cover we will be glad to help you along the way with advice. We can supply free templates for Open Office, Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator.

Be sure to include the front, back, and spine all in one image file. You will need to create your cover with an image size of 8.5" x 14" (21.6cm x 35.6cm) for books with page sizes of 5.5" x 8.5" (14cm x 21.6cm), or 17" x 11.5" (43.2cm x 29.2cm) for books with page sizes of 8.5" x 11" (21.6cm x 27.9cm) . Be sure to use no less than 300 dots per inch (dpi).

A good idea when designing your own cover is to find books on a similar topic and look at them to see what those authors have done for their covers. But don't be tempted to copy or plagiarize artwork. Keep in mind that we will also review books of a similar subject matter. We do this to protect both you and us from potential problems in the future.

While designing your own cover you should keep some basic design guidelines in mind.

Here are some compositional guidelines for book covers. The front cover is on the right, the back cover is on the left, and spine is in the center.

The numbers in the red region indicate the path the eyes follow when quickly looking over a book cover. Keep in mind that you could move the content in position 4 closer to position 5 and still have a powerful eye-catching effect on your book cover. This general area is typically the best place to put colorful title text and an eye-catching graphic to keep the potential buyer looking all the way to the bottom. Remember that people usually scan the cover two or three times looking for more details. If they're still interested at that point then they'll probably turn the book over and look at the back too.