Normally when you want to produce a bespoke design for your eBook cover you usually have two choices available to you. One you outsource, or two you use Photoshop with one of the handful of addon programmes designed specifically for this task. As a lot of you know Photoshop is a gargantuan programme and is not the easiest programme to learn to use with any degree of proficiency.

I do use Photoshop myself for a lot of my artwork, but I also have a small programme available to me so that if I need to produce a slick looking eBook cover on the fly with the least amount of work this is the one I choose. The name of this programme is Trueboxshot, and the beauty of the  programe is that you can use it in conjunction with any or all of the other free graphics programmes.

This little beauty is simplicity itself, once you have produced your basic artwork on, for arguments sake, the free graphics software from paint.net, you import your artwork into Trueboxshot. You establish your design perameters based on whether you are producing a CD, DVD cover, a box, a book, or even a membership card. After establishing these parameters, all you do then is click ´render´ and immediately you are presented with a great looking cover.

A prime example is the eBook cover for ´My Journey So Far´ which took me no more than around 15 minutes from start to finish to accomplish. You can download a trial copy of this by clicking on Trueboxshot.