I was tooling about on my
Pinterest page and realised that my fanfiction list is missing an awful lot of
entries. I don’t have Photoshop skills, I failed with Gimp - I needed another
degree to work that one - and most of the banner makers I know from ages ago aren't doing it anymore.
But in the spirit of learning
things from free videos, I was watching one where the person was making a
printable book for Amazon. She’d upload it and if it sold, fine - if it didn’t,
it had taken less than one hour of her time to make it. With print on demand,
it cost her nothing other than time to produce a journal. And she could get
weirdly specific: things like migraine journals and so on. She was selling the
way to make these journals in more detail.
She used Canva. I had looked at it
before, but needed some more guidance and watching the talk helped me see how
to use it. It’s a lot like the old Microsoft publisher - yes, I’m showing my
age.
So I had a go with some of the
prompts from the Anon twilight one shot contest from years ago. It took me about
an hour to make five of them, using the pre-loaded formats and inserting the
picture prompts from the contest. The pre-loaded images are also set to the correct sizes for various formats from Facebook headers to Wattpad cover sizes. Neat.
What do you reckon?
It’s a little dark, but it’s way
better than this attempt where I used Word to make a cover.
I mean for heaven’s sake… I am so
used to seeing the pilcrow - that backwards P that shows formatting marks -
that I didn’t notice it was visible in the cover I uploaded to Pinterest. Facepalms.
Why didn’t you guys tell me?
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