Make your book cover with AI

Your cover as a 1,600 × 2,560 px JPG, its square version, your rights sheet and the test with two people.

By the end of the course:

• You create a 1,600 × 2,560 px cover in Canva with a title, author, lettering and colors that are easy to read.
• You ask your assistant for a critique with no praise and you apply a single change.
• You download the JPG for Amazon and the square version, and you complete your rights sheet.
• You explain the four things that make a cover readable at a small size.
• You tell apart the three ways to get the image and what you own in each one.
• You explain what Amazon KDP asks of you if the image was made by an AI.

1. Module 0 · Welcome
2. Module 1 · A cover is read at the size of a postage stampYou practice: The covers in your topic
3. Module 2 · Your page, sized for AmazonYou practice: Your 1,600 × 2,560 design
4. Module 3 · Lettering and colors that are easy to readYou practice: Title, author and colors
5. Module 4 · Your image and its rightsYou practice: Your image and your rights sheet
6. Module 5 · AI critiques, you decideYou practice: The critique and one change
7. Module 6 · The test with two people and your two filesYou practice: The test with two people
8. Worked case · Nubia's cover, from the blank page to the two filesYou practice: From the blank page to the image with its sheet; The critique, the test with people and the two files
9. A case from your field · Finish a half-done cover on your kind of topicYou practice: Fix the cover most like yours
10. Final project · Your two files and your sheetYou practice: Complete your two files, your sheet and your test

This is how the course is set up on the campus.

For you if today you think: “I know what I know and I want to turn it into something”