Marketing experts saw a long time ago that packages matter. If you would like to sell your ebooks or software items, pack them up. the good news is that you do not need real cartons or paper. There are three standard approaches to making a virtual cover:
- Asking someone to do it for you
- Learning the nuts and bolts of Photoshop
- Using some dedicated software
If you have a a company that can do it for you, the job will not be hard. If the designer is good something about 3D, they will bill you quite a bit. Every product box or ebook cover will round up to $150. The second choice could work if you are handy with Photoshop. To create everything nicely extra action scripts could be needed that are not that cheap. And do not forget the price of Photoshop, of course, which is about $700. The last option is to try and choose from the dedicated boxshot software. It is good to learn that the supply of such solutions is huge with the prices at $15-100. There are a lot of programs to choose from. If we look at these offerings, we will have 3 categories:
Pre-made templates, without free rotation
3D with polygonal rendering
Sophisticated 3D ray tracing soft
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