Have you ever won­dered how those fancy look­ing eBooks get their fancy look­ing (albeit obvi­ously fake) cov­ers made? I was recently work­ing on a post­card for a book series and I was in dire need of this abil­ity.  I may be a whiz when it comes to photo manip­u­la­tion (one day I’ll prove it) but the type of trick­ery needed to pull off a mock book seemed a lit­tle to much for me…

I spent some time in col­lege learn­ing many tech­ni­cal aspects of design but didn’t seem to retain enough to get my mon­eys worth. The one thing I did take away was how to troll the inter­net for awe­some actions, plug-ins and other trin­kets that some­one not quite as lazy as me was kind enough to cre­ate for the rest of us.  eCov­er­Suit­eEl­ite is prob­a­bly the coolest set of actions I’ve used in Pho­to­shop in quite a while.  Once acti­vated, you have an amaz­ing selec­tion to choose from includ­ing bound reports, books, mag­a­zines, dvd pack­ag­ing and soft­ware packaging.

This action set is high qual­ity, time sav­ing awe­some­ness! If you don’t already have eCov­er­Suit­eEl­ite and you’ve ever spent too much time try­ing to cre­ate your own pack­ag­ing, do your­self a favor and check it out.

I don’t endorse prod­ucts very often, I get enough time fill­ing the sales­man shoes at work  all week, so believe me when I say this action set is well worth the money. Happy eBook designing!