What we learned designing three book covers with Fiverr -

Last updated: 12.10.2022.

Although our parents instructed children from an early age to not judge a book just by its cover, the reality is that the cover is the first thing many are seeing in the book shop or through the web to search for ebooks. The art of creating an appealing cover, though challenging, is vital to all authors, regardless of their book's specialization.

When it comes to finding the perfect layout for your book's design, there's a lot of factors to consider, from expertise to of course, cost. On the internet, you'll find many excellent sources to find book cover designers and makes the search much simpler than it was previously.

This morning, we're going discuss Fiverr and the possibilities of having the cover for your book created on the website at five dollars (USD). Sounds remarkable, right?

We carried out a brief experiment with Fiverr in the hope of providing to you the details you need before deciding to choose this platform for the design of the cover of your book. Let's see what our experiment has revealed for us.

What is Fiverr?

Fiverr offers an online marketplace for freelancers and clients who can request or offer services for as little as five dollars (plus the 10% charge charged by Fiverr that is paid by users). Designers and content writers, web developers translators, editors and more offering services for many different tasks for just $5. The platform is very popular and even though it's controversial by some people, it is proving to enjoy a lot of success among part-time freelancers and customers looking for a cost-effective and speedy solution.

"'s Cover Design Experiment

Armed with curiosity and a necessity to explain the reasons why it's important to select a low-cost option, our group decided to carry out an experiment on Fiverr and request three covers for their books that fit into three types. However, Fiverr gives its users the chance to get more out of the site by offering additional choices such as optimized thumbnails of the original image as well as higher-resolution images and many more, we determined to see what else we could find in exchange for five dollars.

The Books

For this purpose to conduct this research, we came to three new titles in different genres

• Hard Valley by Lilith St. Parish ( Crime/Mystery)
• Undead Pluto by James Sinclair ( Fantasy/Dystopi)
• The Captive's Tales by Milena McAdams ( Romance/Erotica)

What Have We Got

Since visual content reigns supreme we'll take a look at the covers before moving on to more specifics or analysing the outcomes. Click the cover you want to see the larger image in a different tab.

What exactly is it? It Works

After you've created your cover design the designers begin bidding. All that is left to select the artist. After analyzing our choices and made sure the designers were rated as the top on the platform, they offered to design the cover for only five dollars and within less than 24 hours. We discovered that there was not much in terms of choices with this restriction therefore we needed to be flexible regarding our timeframe.

Once you've made your choice then you'll need provide a few details regarding the book to the designers, including the title, subtitle, author name, and any other information you're thinking about as a cover for your book.

The original designer created the cover design in less than 3 hours and we believe that he was the only designer who put in a significant amount of effort rather than just using pictures from the stock library. We'll get to an crucial aspect to consider when you have the cover of your book designed by Fiverr.

Image search

As for the different covers used for novels, even though we liked the design of the first one enough to give us two options, following an image hunt, it was discovered that both covers are used on a variety of websites that deal with sexuality or even genres of books! That is also the case of the image that resembles an image of a vampire, which we selected to use for the Undead Pluto cover.

The Unknown Things

At the start of this endeavor at the start of the project, we realized of the limitations of just $5 and the tight deadline the project would not be able to provide the experience as you get working with a professional book design team. But let's move on and get to the point of discussing the features you can't find in Fiverr at just five dollars.

• It's not possible to get the cover modified or revised after completion
• The files can't be accessed by the original files (.PSD, .AI etc)
• The images are not high-resolution suitable for use in different printing or web-based situations, for instance.
• It's not possible to bounce ideas around with the designer and discuss the design before the actual design procedure.

How to Make the Most of Fiverr

Similar to any other online platform like Fiverr the choice of Fiverr for the cover design is not without its advantages as well as downs.Although there are cons which seem to be more significant than positives, there are few tips to maximize the use of Fiverr. It is important to take your effort when selecting the artist and in providing specifics about the cover. If you're worried that you'll get cover designs that don't match the character or tale you're telling make sure you provide all of the information you are able to provide to the designer and even provide a description of the ideal cover you may have in the back of your mind. This will help them limit their options and help them make more informed choices regarding photographs and stock images.

Also, pay attention to the offers of designers as they can show a great deal about the expertise and reliability of the person who is bidding. If you keep getting calls from madam even though your Fiverr username is Jack and he/she is probably not paying that very much at all to what they're doing , or you're with an agency that acts as a design agency and then passed on your contract to a different person.

Conclusion

If you are evaluating a book based on the cover, viewers usually look for the cover designs that stand out from the multitude of titles that appear to have been made by the same designer. They are looking for covers that accurately reflect their personal style and their story within the pages of the book. If you want a unique cover design for your book, one that stands out and impresses your clients, then you might want to think twice before having the cover design done for only five dollars, regardless of your publishing platform of preference!

If you're in a hurry and don't want to invest more than you're able to on the cover, Fiverr is an excellent place to test your design for your cover with only a few minutes. Sometimes, it's only a few hours.

Overall, we believe our Fiverr test was interesting, it provided us with a wealth of insightful data regarding how design-mills operate and on how designers can deliver high-quality book covers with reasonable prices. They won't blow any reader away.

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