Monkey’s Hand

Marketing experts realized a long time ago that packages help to sell. When you sell an e-book or some software, you should obtain a nice package for it. Luckily, you do not have to pay for actual cartons or paper. Below you can see three possible ways to create a virtual cover:

- Asking someone to do it for you

- Drawing it yourself in Photoshop

- Using some specialized software

If you have a friendly designer, the job will be a piece of cake. Nevertheless, excellent specialists charge good money. Every software box or ebook cover will Cost up to $160. Using Photoshop is fine if you know how to make the program do what you want from it. To create everything properly additional action scripts could be needed that cost extra money. And remember the value of Photoshop: it will rob you of $600. A more straightforward 3rd choice is to find yourself some boxshot software. Starting from $15 you can obtain a product that will match your needs. There is obviously plenty room for choice. Actually, there are 3 types of software solutions:

Pre-made templates, without free rotation

Simple 3D rendering programs

Sophisticated 3D ray tracing soft

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