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About 120K fanfictions emerge when you directly type Harry Potter in the search bar at Wattpad.
While some of them are amazing and well worth every reader's time, there are a great many fanfictions which are either too cliché...
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The above picture is a cover I made for my friend's book on Taylor Swift. If you notice, the font is not taking up the entire space and it is not indistinguishably small either. The font color is kept similar to Taylor's shirt and the grey ribbon on it so that it merges nicely with the cover and doesn't seem too diverting.
3. The Layout. You have to be very careful in choosing the layout. Too many things in a 512 x 800 pixel picture will not produce the desired effect on readers. It will seem overcrowded and no one will be able to get a hang of what's going on.
4. Keep it simple. By simple I do not mean just one picture, no, you can use layers if you want but make sure all of it is not cramped. At the end of the chapter I will post a few covers which I have made and maybe taking a look at them will be able to clear things more for you.
5. If you are into editing and want a cover with layers I personally recommend using PicsArt and Adobe Photoshop. Both apps are easy to use and provide best results in an extremely short time and effort.
6. For giving your book a realistic cover, that is a cover which looks quite professional, you can try out www.canva.com. It is a designing site which offers multiple layouts and themes. You can create Wattpad book covers easily on it because it has the correct size as well as a lot of different simple yet artistic themes to choose from. I nearly always use Canva for book covers.
7. Or you can try Graphic Shops. There are a great number of these on Wattpad where they design your book cover under payment of a follow and giving them the credits for the cover in your book description.
Examples You Can Consider:
I make covers for my own books as well as for my friends. You can check these out or you can check the book covers of following authors:
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This the cover for my upcoming book which is another opinion based help book and deals with the problems writers experience. You can see that I have a similar layout for all covers on this profile, but it's up to you whether you want to keep all your covers in the same layout or not.
Other covers made by me are:
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I use simple layouts and all the above examples are made on Canva.
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And that is all for today. If this chapter helped you, then I'm glad to be of some help. If not or if you have any good ideas or tips to share, feel free to comment.
And if you want to request a cover (I would be honored, mind you), then simply PM me on this account and include the title of the story, what genre is it from (it's a bonus if its published because then I will be able to get more insight on what the cover should be like), anything special you want to be done on it etc and simply hit send. I will try to make your cover as soon as I can and upload it on my Covers Express book which I will publish after I get requests to work onto.
