Hey guys,
I've got a really good video for you today because I'm going to show you a quick
and easy way to create stunning book cover designs that
requires virtually no graphic design skills and can be used to create
colors in virtually any niche.
And if you stick around to the end, I've got a bonus for you.
And that I'll show you how to use this technique to make money online by
creating products, to sell on other platforms.
So let's get to it. Now, if you're not been here before,
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So you're wondering what this is. Well,
let's go over to Amazon and I'll show you some examples.
So if we scroll down here,
you'll get a good idea of what I'm going to be talking about.
I'll click on one and you can see here, we've got these arrangement of words.
I'll show you this phone case cover. We've got this shape of a dog,
which is made up of words,
and this is called word cloud art.
And using this technique,
I'm going to show you how you can easily take a graphic like this
and turn it into a book cover like this.
And it really is very fast.
And also I'll show you how you can create personalized book covers
using this technique and give you some really interesting ideas on how you can
use this in different niches and some good niche suggestions. Now,
the software I'm going to show you is web based,
which means you can use this on any windows or Mac computer.
You can also create these on your mobile phone.
There are apps there that are available. If you do use them,
just make sure you can use them commercially.
So what we're going to do today is go to this website at
wordart.com,
where you can create these Word Cloud Art pieces.
And it's a case of clicking on create now,
and it will take us to this platform.
So what you do initially is choose the words you want to appear in your
word cloud art. What we've got here at the moment is love happiness and energy.
Then it's a case of clicking on shapes.
Now word art does supply all these shapes that you can use,
but you can also use your own shapes to create custom Word
Cloud art shapes. So for example, here, we've got our words.
We could click on this heart, click on visualize,
and it gives us this heart with our words
in it, love happiness and energy. Now hint hint Valentine's date is coming up.
This would probably make a pretty good design for a lot of book covers.
Now to demonstrate creating the book cover. I showed you,
we first need our graphic, which is of a unicorn.
Now I went to creative. Fabrica just put in unicorn.
And I came up with this graphic, which I downloaded.
You could go to other graphic platforms as well,
like design bundles or something like vecteezy, again,
put in unicorn silhouette and you've got all these offerings that you can use
again,
just make sure you're aware of the licensing of all these graphics platforms.
So all you do is click on add image,
and then you upload the image that you've downloaded.
And I've got the unicorn image here, and it's just a case of clicking on it.
Now we want to change the words that we're going to be using here.
So I'm going to put in unicorn.
Love and fantasy.
So we've got our shape of our unicorn clicked. Now you can choose your font,
which is going to stick to the regular font here,
but they do have many different fonts that you can use.
Then we can click on layout.
Now we can have our words horizontal or vertical or a mishmash of horizontal
vertical diagonal. And you can adjust the density of the words at the moment.
We're at 50%.
I'll show you what happens if we turn this down and click on visualize the words
will become larger. Here we've got our unicorn.
The words will become larger and there'll be less of them within our image.
Now for this, I'm just going to move this up to around about eight. Now,
the most important tab here is style.
We can have the words in the color of our image. Remember our image was black,
so we could have our words in black, or we can create a custom color palette.
So you just click on the colors and you can choose your colors and we can choose
our background color, at the moment we've got it on pink.
What I'm going to do is make the background transparent.
So then it's just a case of downloading the image.
So it's going to go for the standard PNG,
which actually is going to be quite low resolution and what you would need to do
to get the, the right 300 dpi for your cover images,
you'd need to download the HD the high definition PNG.
But in order to do that, you do need to pay for that.
And the pricing for one month is 29 pounds.
So now it's just a case of downloading standard PNG,
and that will download to the computer and then we need to take it to the
graphic design software of our choice. Today,
I'm going to be using Adobe illustrator. You can do this on,
on Inkscape Photoshop Gravit Designer.
You could even do this on Canva as well,
which is a free platform on which you can create your book covers.
So here we are in Adobe illustrator and I've downloaded from
bookow.com, our template.
And this is going to be a book that's six by nine inches with 120 pages.
It's important that you do get a template like this to create your book cover.
And then all we need to do is just import or drag and drop our image
of the Unicon. Now,
the reason we need our template there is that we want to be able to move the
unicorn around and get it within these red borders so that
it's not accidentally trimmed off when the book is created.
So our unicorn now is in the right spot.
We can get rid of our template and it looks a bit boring like that.
So what I'm going to do is put in a black background and you can see the colors
suddenly pop. Now, I think you could leave that as is,
or you could add some text at the top or top and bottom, you know,
unicorn lover or a funny quote that you can find off sites like Pinterest.
I think you'll agree. That looks quite good. Now,
what I want to show you now is using a similar technique to create a
personalized book cover using this word cloud art,
which have the potential to sell very well. Now,
our words are going to be different. Now I'm going to do a Valentine themed one.
Remember Valentine's day is coming up.
There's still time to create your Valentine's day books.
If you're interested in more about that,
I'll leave a link below in the description on creating a Valentine's day book
cover, and you could use this technique. So we'll put in Valentines,
we'll keep love.
We'll put in day and this time we're going to personalize this with a girl's
name. So we're going to put in Mary. Now, this is not going to be a unicorn.
So we did a different shape. Now I've already uploaded here,
a shape in the same proportions as our book cover.
So I'm just going to click on that and I'm going to click on visualize.
Now what we need to do is find a word here.
I'm going to show you a cool trick. So you click on the word like Mary,
we're going to move this up,
I want this towards the middle of the front of the book cover,
I'm going to slightly enlarge it and I want to change the color.
Something that will make it stand out a little bit more.
So we're going to go for this light pink. Now watch this.
When we click on visualize it leaves Mary in the middle and it puts all our
other words around it. Now, if we go back to style,
I want a transparent background again. So click on, make transparent,
go to downloads. I'm going to click on standard PNG,
cause I've not got a paid for account on this.
So now we go back to our software suite and again,
we've got our template to get the right size. Now for this,
we need to just drag our image that we've downloaded and we just need to move
this into position, put it in one corner,
hold shift down and just drag that down to the other corner and we can get rid
of our template.
And what we're going to do is put in a black background and you can see straight
away how good that looks.
And we've got our personalized name on the front there, which stands out. Now.
Obviously you've got to come up with a title for one of these books.
So from this it's difficult because you've got to have the title on the front
cover or on the spine.
Here we haven't got any particular sort of words there.
So what you would need to do is put a black rectangle down the middle of the
book, like, so you can see that here. Now,
if he wants to get that in the right position,
what you can do is just switch off our two layers here,
switch back on the book cover template and make sure that this is within
that dotted line.
And we can enlarge that just so it's in exactly the right position.
Just enlarge that just slightly like, so reduce the size again,
click off our templates, click on the black background, click on our word art.
And then we can write our title that we choose down the spine here.
And in which case, or in this case, we've got to Valentine's day notebook.
So you can see we've got our title on the spine and we've got our personalized
cover can agree that that looks pretty stunning. It stands out.
Now just think about different niches.
You could use this in where you could personalize it,
and I've shown you a Valentine's day book here.
Think about things like father's day mother's day birthday.
Think about sports. Also think about things like pets.
So different dog breeds, cat breeds.
So you could do this with a word art of say,
Burmese cats in a color scheme of a, of a typical Burmese cat,
or you could do a silhouette of a Burmese cat and put the words in there
onto the front cover.
So really it's only limited by your imagination and you can see how you
can use this in virtually any niche. I mean,
you could even use this in on business books. You know, create a, I don't know,
an accounting ledger in a word art design. So there's as I say,
it's just limited by your imagination. Now this is the bonus.
And I'm going to show you how you can make money or a way to make money
using this technique of creating Word Cloud Art on different
platforms by creating products. Now, when we went over to Amazon,
I showed you these here and you can create word art
products on Merch by Amazon. If we go to the platform here,
you could see that you could create these designs to produce t-shirts tank
tops, hoodies, mobile phone cases, pop sockets, cushions,
even tote bags. If we have a look on Amazon, we can see some examples here,
exactly what I was talking about. Pop sockets with a dog breed.
I think this is a cairn terrier. Now, in order to do this,
you would have to open up a merch by Amazon account,
or you could create merch on other platforms. So we've got Teespring here.
Here's an example of a dog on a t-shirt or red bubble.
We scroll down here.
We can see some of the different types of products you can create. Again,
phone cases, bags, t-shirts, but look at this,
you could do it with face masks, very popular,
probably very big sellers at the moment. So you could do a, a unicorn word,
art face mask. There are word arts products for sale on Etsy.
So you could create these products and sell them and send them out. Now,
a lot of these appear to be posters. So you could have a color printer,
print these onto quality paper, frame them up and sell them. Look at that.
Paul the pig.
And again, if we have a look at this one, you can do them personalized.
So you know if someone's interested in a particular cat bridge,
you could do the cat and personalize it with their name on.
So this is a great way of really creating unique products,
which customers love. And the one last.
Way, which is.
An interesting idea, is on fiverr.com.
You could join Fiverr and offer gigs of
creating word art. And you can see here,
we've got some examples of gigs that other people are offering,
and we've got one here who's popular. It looks like they've done 290 of these,
but this is quite interesting.
You've got the basic offering of 10 words maximum.
So the customer provides you with 10 words,
you put 10 words in and you do that for a certain price, but the premium,
the £26.99, which must be just over $30.
The only difference is it's more words, it's 50 words.
So for the extra money,
all you have to do is sit there for a few extra minutes and type in 50 words
instead of the basic 10. And again,
you can create these images like this, like this,
with the technique that I've just shown you.
So that's a good way of actually making money fast,
providing a service like that is a good way of making money quickly
because people give you the words, give you the design idea.
You create it, you get the money.
So theoretically you could be up and starting with something like this on Fiverr
and making money within the next day or two. Now,
if you found this video useful, then make sure you click on this video next,
where I show you how to create a Valentine's day book cover for free on
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thank you for watching. And until next time, goodbye.