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.
My Ecover Maker
