You will be prompt to have all of the following files unzipped:

CoverActions Instruction Book – you’re reading it right now!

PS Action Scripts – these scripts are found in the /PS Action Scripts folder. There should be 4 scripts altogether, namely E-book, Box, CD, and Membership Pass.

PSDTemplates – these are 20 pre-made templates for the E-book, Box, CD, and Membership Pass. You can find them in the /PSDTemplates folder.

Fonts – these fonts (found in /Fonts folder) are freeware fonts that I have found and collected throughout the Internet. They are fancy fonts, free for you to use in your cover designs. That should help save you time in sourcing or buying fonts online, which also adds more variety to your work other than using default fonts installed in your computer.

Now, in your Adobe Photoshop environment, you need to load the action scripts. We will load the E-book action script for starters so here’s how to do it:

Go to the “Actions” tab. You can see it on your right hand side in Adobe Photoshop program.

The “Load” screen will appear. Go to your PS Action Scripts directory that you have unzipped earlier (X:/…/CoverActions/PS Action Scripts). Select “Cover – E-Book.atn” and then click “Load”.

The E-book cover action script will be loaded and now, it is visible in your “Actions” tab!

Note: Throughout this manual, screenshots and diagrams are taken from Adobe Photoshop CS2 (which is the latest version of Adobe Photoshop at this time of writing). Therefore, you are recommended to use or this version (or upgrade to this version if you’re currently using an older one) to achieve desired results. No guarantee is made as to whether older versions of Adobe Photoshop can support the usage of the scripts.

If you already have Adobe Photoshop program installed in your hard drive, open the program in your computer interface and you should see the program visible like in the screenshot above.

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