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This is a follow-up to the last post which was about t he size an eBook cover should be .  I'll quickly outline how to optimise a colour eBook cover so that it looks good when viewed on E Ink devices and on colour devices. As discussed previously, currently an eBook cover should tick all the following boxes: 600 x 800 pixel size title, author readable at small sizes  colour looks good for pc & tablet viewing also looks good on E Ink devices in grayscale The last point is really important and means that you need to create your eBook cover to work both in colour and in grayscale. Here's a quick tip using photoshop to quickly flick back and forth between grayscale and colour so that you can make it look good in both. Firstly scale your image to the correct size (600x800) then in the layers panel add a new adjustment layer by clicking on the little circle icon (Step 1 in the graphic).  Choose the Black and White adjustment layer (Step 2) - and just...