Create Kindle eBook Covers with PowerPoint

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Course Description

Create Kindle eBook Covers with PowerPoint takes the mystery away from designing and producing a virtual cover for a Kindle eBook. It is important to have a cover image, or "catalogue cover" as this is what prospective purchasers will see. To make your book stand out you need a graphical image that can be read when squished into a thumbnail size on the Kindle store, and this course will show you how using software you may already have.

The course is split into sections covering setting up PowerPoint, adding and editing images, searching for royalty-free and stock images and putting it all together. There is a bonus walkthrough video at the end for consolidating all the material covered in the course.

The course comprises video lectures, PowerPoint template files and PDF documents and should take between 3 and 5 hours to complete.

PowerPoint has been included with every version of Microsoft Office for years. I have chosen it because it will be familiar to most people and is very easy to learn. If you use Microsoft Windows you probably already have it installed on your computer. If not, you can pick up a copy very cheaply for both Windows and Mac computers.

What are the requirements?

A copy of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or later
Basic computer skills
If you can click a mouse, you can take this course!
What am I going to get from this course?

Over 23 lectures and 2 hours of content!
By the end of this course you will be able to create a catalogue cover for a Kindle format eBook
In this course you will learn how to:
Set up PowerPoint as an image editor
Add pictures, shapes and text boxes
Format objects for best reproduction online
Search for free and paid-for images to use in your cover
Save the final composite as an image that Amazon will accept
What is the target audience?

Anyone who wants to learn how to use PowerPoint as a graphics editor for quick and easy image editing.