Free Software for Book Cover Creation!

I love Gimp & Scribus! - Software applications.

I open Gimp and drop in my .jpeg file (picture.) The program allows me to change the dpi! Thank you!

I'm a newbie at manipulating photos so I don't know much, but I love the features I can use. It's extremely helpful when creating photos for websites or book covers, paperback and e-books.

For anyone that knows me, you know I don't have the mega bucks to buy software or (more importantly) buy a ready made cover for my new book. I had to create my own book cover. The first time I submitted the cover it 'looked' great.

Well, CreateSpace (Amazon Co.) that I am self-publishing my book through said the cover was low resolution and had bad dpi... My response was - Huh?? Say what?

Long story short, I found free software (actually two) that provided the results I needed. I used Gimp to improve dpi in my pictures from 72dpi into 300dpi. Then I used Scribus to actually put the cover together.
   < Edit completed on 4/12/11 - I've had a very sweet lady tell me that changing from low dpi to high dpi will make the picture grainy. She is correct. *Sigh* Back to the drawing board. >  

Gimp and Scribus are both free. I recommend going to http://www.cnet.com/ to download them. From what I understand cnet does an automatic virus search on all downloads.

Enjoy!