Suggestions in giving to my application a cool look

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Hi all, I'm creating an application that manages book images. I don't have much experinece creating GUI applications but I would like to obtain a good look for this app (it's for the final project of my career ). The application works like a wizard. I've been thinking in having the image of an open book as the background of the app with transparent color around it, so the app will mantain the book shape. In the left page of the book I will put a widget (with transparent background) that contains information about the current window in the wizard and on the right page I will put a widget with the controls (buttons, textedits, lineedits, ...) for working with this page. I've attached an example image that shows what I want to obtain. My questions are:
1) is it difficult to do?
2) Could you suggest me something to make it better or any other look?
3) Do you have any nice image of an open book that fits well in what I want to do?. I think that it's important that both pages have a rectangular shape so the widgets will fit better...

I will be very thankfull if you could give me some guides to obtain this look for my application or if you know of another application with a similar look

Thanks.