Stock Photos and Resources
I primarily use DepositPhotos and Evanto Elements for my stock images.
Stock Images
- DepositPhotos (General stock site)
- Evanto Elements (General stock site)
- Period Images (Romance stock images)
- Neo-Stock (Fantasy Stock Images)
- The Stock Alchemist (Range of genres, diverse models)
- Stocklarium (Fantasy stock images, good diversity)
- The Reed Files (Romance stock images, good diversity)
General Resources
- Photobash (Backgrounds and textures)
- MixPixBox on CreativeFabrica (Skies, fabric, overlays)
- 2SUNS on CreativeFabrica (Skies, fabric, overlays)
- Grafit Studio on ArtStation (Drawing references)
- Satine Zillah on ArtStation (Drawing references)
- Zsolt Kosa on ArtStation (Photoshop Brushes)
- Vegalia on Gumroad (Photoshop brushes for natural hair)
Fonts
Learning
Cover Design
- Illustrius Academy (Course for fantasy book covers)
- Muddy Colors (Website with store containing tutorial videos — I especially recommend Chris McGrath’s for photobashing)
Author Services
Cover Designers
- Cover Designer Directory (site listing vetted cover designers across genres)
- Sleepy Fox Studio (fantasy, middle grade, young adult, cozy, and contemporary romance, does LGBTQ premades)
- Wolfsparrow Covers (contemporary romance, does LGBTQ premades)
- Night Witch Illustrations (Urban fantasy and paranormal romance)
- Arcane Covers (Paranormal and fantasy, especially paranormal women’s fiction)
- Magnetra’s Design (Sweet fantasy, young adult fantasy)
- KDS Cover Concepts (Urban fantasy, does lots of premades with PoC protagonists)
Editing and Formatting
- Editor’s Magic (line editing and copyediting)