South African Website Design Company

SUMMARY Free Cover Design

No, it's not a trick. We really are offering free cover design.

In order to quell your suspicion, let me explain why...
We have never had anyone request cover design before so we've never had a chance to build up our portfolio, and without examples of cover design in our portfolio, it's difficult to sell.

So until we have a few nice examples for our portfolio, we will be offering free cover design. If you've written a book, or produced a film or album, and you need the cover designed, we will undertake this task for free.

Terms & Conditions
  • You will have to prove that the book, film or album is legitimate. The reason for this is we don't want to be kept busy by our competitors doing free work for fake projects.
  • We will dictate the timeline.
  • We will not design covers for anything we deem to be dodgy (for example risque films)
  • If purchasing a stock art photo would enhance the design, we will discuss and have this approved by you first, as this is a cost that would fall to you.
  • We have the right to withdraw the offer at any time.
  • Though your ideas are of course welcome, we will retain some measure of artistic freedom.

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Cover Design Glossary

CMYK The colour format that files should be in before they are printed at a repro house. Short for 4 colours, namely: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black DPI / PPI Dots Per Inch / Pixels Per Inch. The number of pixels within a square inch. Used to determine whether a picture has high, medium or low resolution. Pictures for web should have 72 ppi. Pictures to be printed on deskjet printers should have 150 ppi. Pictures to be printed at Repro houses should have 300 ppi. High Resolution A file that is high resolution is generally a file that has a dpi of 300. A repro house will require the file to be high res and repro-ready before printing. JPEG A type of picture file. Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Kerning Horizontal spacing between letters of a word or sentence. Leading Vertical spacing between lines of text in a paragraph/list. Pixel The smallest part or single grid point of a raster image. Raster A raster image is made up of pixels, for example a photograph. You can tell an image is raster if you stretch it bigger, and it begins to distort. Repro Ready Files Short for 'reproduction ready files'. Refers to files that have been prepared with the necessary, crop marks, bleeds, etc for printing. Serif and San Serif Fonts Serifs are the short strokes that appear on the ends of some characters of a typeface (font) like Times New Roman. Sans serif means "without serif" and refers to clean typefaces like Arial. Vector A vector image is made up of paths (lines that link to form shapes), for example clip art. Vector images do not distort if you enlarge them.