When you need an easy way to create professional looking images for marketing or posting on social media – Book Brush is my answer! Book Brush makes creating marketing images easy, fun and affordable, too!
My favorite tool in Book Brush is the Custom Creator because even if you are an amateur, you can create great looking ads for yourself! I’m going to share handy tips and tricks to help you create even more eye-catching ads in no time at all!
Here is the easy to use task bar in the Custom Creator:
Ad Size
Book Brush offers pre-sized ads perfect for places that authors advertise! There are ads with the proper dimensions for BookBub, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and more. You can also enter your own custom dimensions so if you are creating something for a special promo, you can enter the dimensions (in pixels) and you are ready to create!
Templates
If you don’t feel like you are creative, you can try the pre-made Community Templates for ads! You can filter by genre or the platform where you’ll post the image, find one that you like, then simply insert your book cover, edit text if you want text and download. Here are examples of templates perfectly sized for Instagram or a Facebook Square Ad:
Background
In this step, you can search from over 1 million images that are available for free! You can also choose a solid background color or gradient color to add some pizzazz to your image. One of my favorite tricks in the background step is to upload your own book cover as the background. This gives you a truly unique and personalized look like this one:
Book Template
Book Brush offers a selection of over 50 book templates including books, ipads, phones, cover reveals and even some with hands attached to show your book being read! Once you choose a book template, you can resize and move it around within your image to place it where you want. What I love in this step is that if you’d like to add more than one book cover to your image, you can repeat this step to add more.
Text
Here you type or paste in your wording, then click edit text styling to really personalize things! You can change the font along with the color and the size of your text as well as adjust the height between your lines of text. You can add a background color to your text box (including gradient color), add a shadow to your text to make it pop or add a border around your text box for definition. Another cool thing about Book Brush is that you can even upload your own font. Here is an example of all the features that you can personalize:
Stamps
There are so many possibilities in this step! You can add industry related logos such as Kindle Unlimited, Nook, Kobo, Audible, Smashwords and more. There are review rating stars, shelves and decorative stamps. My favorite are the blank stamps – colorful circles and shapes. These are wonderful because you can place a text box on top to create an eye-catching call-to-action in your image such as 99¢ or Buy Now!
Lucky for us, there is a filter option to find the stamps you want:
Want to try Book Brush?
Book Brush offers a Limited Plan where you can test out a selection of book templates, stamps and fonts and it is completely free to create three images per month. Sign up for your free Book Brush account today!
To access all of the great features and functionality, you can upgrade to the Plus Plan. With the Plus Plan you can create and download an unlimited number of images and enjoy access to more book templates, more stamps, more fonts along with the Video Creator and Instant Mockups! Book Brush offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, too!
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Book Brush is a platform that provides an easy way for authors to create professional looking ads and images for social media. We offer a free plan where authors can create 3 free images per month along with a paid plan with a lot of additional features like our Custom Creator, 3D Creator and Video Creator. We recently launched Instant Mockups - a super simple tool authors can use to create over 200 professional, real-life images featuring their book in minutes!
Kathleen Sweeney is the Manager of Customer Service and the Image Creation Specialist at Book Brush. She has over 17 years of client service and business assurance experience across the financial recovery and healthcare industries. She thoroughly enjoys working with authors and helping them create eye-catching images. She lives in Illinois with her husband and three busy, fun-loving boys. Her hobbies include reading and turning socks right side out.
Note from HiDee and Lynn: While The Write Way Cafe does not endorse products, we thank Kathleen for sharing the information about Book Brush and hope everyone finds something useful to take away.
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Book Brush is a platform that provides an easy way for authors to create professional looking ads and images for social media. We offer a free plan where authors can create 3 free images per month along with a paid plan with a lot of additional features like our Custom Creator, 3D Creator and Video Creator. We recently launched Instant Mockups - a super simple tool authors can use to create over 200 professional, real-life images featuring their book in minutes!
Kathleen Sweeney is the Manager of Customer Service and the Image Creation Specialist at Book Brush. She has over 17 years of client service and business assurance experience across the financial recovery and healthcare industries. She thoroughly enjoys working with authors and helping them create eye-catching images. She lives in Illinois with her husband and three busy, fun-loving boys. Her hobbies include reading and turning socks right side out.
Note from HiDee and Lynn: While The Write Way Cafe does not endorse products, we thank Kathleen for sharing the information about Book Brush and hope everyone finds something useful to take away.
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I enjoy learning about new tools available to writers. Thanks for sharing with us today!
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