Graphics on the Kindle (both Kindle 1 and Kindle 2) (The "Graphics on the Kindle" Series)
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2ND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! The new edition covers both Kindle 1 and 2.
TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL EBOOK YOU NEED MORE THAN GOOD WRITING!
You'll also need an eye-catching cover, not to mention special graphics on the inside that need to be prepared especially for the Kindle.
GRAPHICS ON THE KINDLE is still the ONLY book on the market to give detailed step-by-step instructions to properly prepare your graphics for ebook use as well as viewing your photos/graphics as a slideshow on the Kindle.
No long paragraphs of endless chatter or needless attempts at wit; just easy to understand, right to the point instruction sets making it easy to get right down to business!
Learn how to edit photos and apply special effects specifically for Kindle-viewing to make your images look significantly better. You'll also learn how to use clip-art and graphical text elements to add extra visual power to your e-books. Lots of samples (photos of a few are above) for you to look at to see what your final results can look like. All that plus tech support (via email) for help with tweaking here and there!
ATTENTION COMIC BOOK, COMIC STRIP AND GRAPHIC NOVEL CREATORS:
Now available: FORMATTING COMICS FOR THE KINDLE, the 2nd book in this series. This book blasts open the door to a whole new market just waiting for you! Search for it on Amazon by name or just copy and paste in B001BDI2BE.
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Limited value, difficult formattingMar 12, 2010 I was very disappointed in this book. Admittedly, I've been working in Photoshop for a decade, but other reviews suggested that even the experienced pro would find value in this book. Instead it was a high-level summary of information I had easily gleaned from quick google searches, with specific Photoshop instructions on how to do things like brighten an image.
If you know absolutely nothing about image manipulation and have a copy of Photoshop (what are the odds?) then this might be a decent primer to quickly learn the few skills you'll need to convert to Kindle-friendly files. (Though the formatting is poor and difficult to read.)
Otherwise I suggest you buy a latte and search free tutorials -- you'll pick up the vast majority of the same information quickly.
Quick, concise, informativeFeb 17, 2010 Quick, concise, informative, little book on preparing graphic and photos to publish in Kindle and other ebook distributors. Since Kindle has become the leader in electron book distribution. I personally would focus only on Kindle. This is not a definitive work, but is full of pointer, suggestion and valuable nuggets. However if the reader is not at least somewhat proficient with Photoshop Elements, this book is not for them. But if you are planning to write and publish on Amazon's Kindle and use any kind of graphic of photo you will need to know information in this book and Photoshop, it, like Kindle are standards of the industry. It is worth the investment of time to learn your tools.
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Spend a little time and save a LOTApr 27, 2009 How delightful to discover this gem just as I'm preparing the graphics for the Kindle edition of Snake Jazz, the baseball memoir of a retired major league pitcher. "Graphics on the Kindle" kindly led me step by step and saved me days of trial and error. And the end product was wonderful; especially for the scanned pictures of very old newspaper photos.
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Cover, cover, cover!Mar 23, 2009 Graphics On The Kindle, 2nd Edition
by Manuel Burgos
Manuel Burgos's book, Graphics On The Kindle, 2nd Edition, is a must-have for any author who hopes to have a marketable product on Kindle. What good is a well-written book if no one will open it? If realtors say, "Location, location, location," authors should be saying, "Cover, cover, cover."
In fact, it must have been the cover on Graphics On The Kindle, 2nd Edition, that drew (no pun intended) me to this book. I have no other recollection of how I found it. All I knew was that I was a writer, not an artist. I needed help! I was just learning to navigate around the Kindle as a reader. Creating the cover for my Kindle book Bears in the Hibiscus, was beyond intimidating.
Burgos's book is a step by step guide for creating not only covers, but inside graphics. His illustrations use Photoshop, but he suggests other alternative programs that will work.
I have to confess I was so fascinated by his methods that I had to force myself to stay on task and focus on the problem at hand: converting my cover to Kindle. As I am very tech-impaired, and have time limitations (I'm already in my sixties), I chose to have Burgos and his company, Rare Arts, do my cover for me. I did so with regret. His instructions are so simple and easy to follow that it would be a lot of fun to play with photos using Burgos's book. If you're an author, and don't know about the 16 levels of gray, you need this book!
Janelle Meraz Hooper, author
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
A Must for Any Kindle Author or Publisher!Dec 07, 2008 This little booklet is a godsend! While I am no graphic artist (which should be obvious), I found the tips in Manuel's book to work absolutely flawlessly. I used Manuel's methods to make the cover for my book and it skated through Amazon's DTP on the first try.
Graphics on the Kindle is a "must read" for anyone publishing an ebook with the DTP platform. Thanks, Manuel!
David Emberson
Author, The Kindle Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You
based on 9 reviews
