If you create or resell
digital products, offer a newsletter to your
site visitors, or regularly produce and
distribute reports or videos, then you need
a product image or "ecover" to
make your product more tangible and valuable
to prospective buyers.
There are many different
ways to get these ecovers made. You can pay
a designer upwards of $147.00 per image, or
you could purchase software or PhotoShop
actions but then there's a considerable
investment in time and money. Luckily, my
friend, Tuan, has created MyEcoverMaker.
MyEcoverMaker
is a web-based solution for creating ecovers
of all types. There is a limited free
version and a very economical monthly or
annual membership plan costing only
$9.00/month or $90.00/year. That's dirt
cheap for covers. You start your project by
selecting the template desired. For the
purposes of this review, I chose the
Paperback Stack. There are 32 different
templates to choose from, but you need to be
a paid member to access all of them.
Next I chose a background
for my cover design. MyEcoverMaker
provides you with access to a nice gallery
of background images. You can select all or
a portion of the background as desired, or
you can upload your own image.
Once your background is
selected, you can begin to customize the
cover to your liking. If you want, you can
add a variety of images, shapes, seals and
icons, frames and borders and stock photo
images -- all at no additional cost.
Then you can add text for
titles, author names, URLs -- whatever you
want. You can select from a variety of
fonts, sizes, colors, etc. MyEcoverMaker
is very feature-rich and easy-to-use.
You simply click on the features you want to
use, make your selections and click the
green checkmark to apply your changes.
Once you have completed your
2D design, you click the Finalize button to
render your image. Within seconds, your
final image will be displayed in 3D. Note
shadows and reflections will be added to
give the final image a rich, detailed and
realistic look.
All you need to do now is
click and drag the corner of the image to
resize it to your precise needs and then
click the Download button to save it to your
hard drive. Registered members can actually
save their projects online for future recall
and modification.
At only $9.00/month or
$90.00/year, MyEcoverMaker
makes it very economical to create your own
product images quickly and easily. To test
the site yourself for free, please click here
now.
