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Then you can improve your book and re-release it with the new look. Here are a few examples on what you can do with backgrounds to give a desired effect and help to convey ideas – in our case, “Independent Entrepreneurs will have more free time once successful”.

Note that the effect may not be apparent just with the book cover, the idea is to use covers beside tag lines and sales pitches.

Ok, I cheated a bit here. The shadow in the above cover cannot be achieved using the previous procedures (it’s a heck of a lot easier). To learn how to keep the same background image and change it into a shadow, you’ll need to read the last section of the SHADOWS chapter.