How To Upload Cover To Kindle Direct Publishing

Our free Embrace Creator helps yous create and customize your eBook, paperback, or hardcover encompass with a diverseness of layouts and fonts. Encompass Creator uses the book details yous enter during championship setup and adds your book'south ISBN to the barcode area on the dorsum cover. Many Cover Creator templates allow yous to choose an image from our image gallery or upload your own image.

Comprehend Creator accepts the following file types:

• JPG
• PNG
• TIF/TIFF

If Embrace Creator doesn't see your formatting needs, effort our do-information technology-yourself guidelines and templates:

• Create an eBook Cover
• Create a Paperback Comprehend
• Hardcover Cover Formatting


• Paperback and hardcover cover templates

For ideas and tips from other authors, visit the KDP Community.

Annotation: Cover Creator does not support Japanese, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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Contents

• Supported languages by book format
• Before yous launch Embrace Creator
• How to use Encompass Creator to create your paperback cover
• Launch Encompass Creator
• Get images for your cover
• Option a template, and then pick a blueprint layout
• Replace the placeholder text on the back encompass (championship description and author bio)
• Format text on your spine and front cover
• Upload author photo
• Preview your cover in Cover Creator
• How to use Embrace Creator to submit a fully formatted JPEG paperback cover
• Troubleshooting:
• Back cover text and images
• Forepart cover and spine text
• Warning triangles
• Dotted lines in Cover Creator
• Tin can I download Cover Creator and the embrace I design in the tool?
• Did you use Cover Creator on CreateSpace?

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Video: Introduction to Comprehend Creator

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Supported languages by book format

Cover Creator is supported in these languages except for the following languages, book type and KDP account.

Volume format	Kdp.amazon.com	Kdp.amazon.co.jp
eBook	Japanese is not supported.	Embrace Creator is not supported.
Paperback	Japanese, Hebrew, and Yiddish are not supported.	Japanese, Hebrew, and Yiddish are not supported.
Hardcover	Hebrew and Yiddish are not supported.	Hebrew and Yiddish are not supported.

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Earlier you launch Cover Creator

Enter paperback or hardcover details

Make sure you have entered the championship, subtitle, writer proper name, and series information on the Paperback Details or Hardcover Details tab. Encompass Creator will utilize these details to generate your cover.

To provide the all-time customer experience, delight follow our Metadata Guidelines.

Upload interior manuscript and expect for information technology to process

The spine width of your cover depends on the page count of your interior file, so make certain you have uploaded your interior file, and it has finished processing, before you launch Cover Creator. If you launch Embrace Creator before your interior file is processed, the default setting for Cover Creator won't lucifer your interior file. This can result in bug with your spine width and text. To avoid this issue, wait until the message "Processing your file…" is gone before launching Encompass Creator.

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How to utilise Comprehend Creator to create your paperback comprehend

Launch Cover Creator Note: we recommend using Firefox or Chrome for the all-time experience using Encompass Creator. To use the tool, you need to have created a championship on your Bookshelf. If you lot've created a championship, follow the steps below to launch Cover Creator. Go to your Bookshelf and find the championship for which y'all desire to create a embrace. Click the ellipsis button (…) under the Paperback Deportment or Hardcover Actions carte and then click Edit Paperback Content or Edit Hardcover Content. On the Content tab, coil down to the Volume Cover section and click Launch Cover Creator. Note: If you have problem launching Cover Creator, try clearing the cache in your web browser. For instructions on immigration your cache, please consult your browser's help documentation. You tin too try a forced reload. To strength reload, hold down the Shift key and click the Reload or Refresh button in your browser. If yous need to start over at any point in the process, click the Start Over button on the bottom left of Cover Creator.

Get images for your embrace You tin cull an epitome from our paradigm gallery or from your computer. When uploading your own images to Cover Creator, make sure: They take a minimum resolution of 300 DPI (dots per inch) All text is legible and isn't cutting off or overlapped by other elements The text color is different from your background color so the text is legible The file uploaded is an prototype file (.jpg/.jpeg, .tif/.tiff, .png) Visit Format Images in Your Book for more information on meeting the minimum resolution of 300 DPI. How to edit or change your cover prototype If you want to edit your cover image or choose a new cover epitome, click anywhere on the cover, except where other elements (e.g., text boxes) exist. A dialog box titled Edit cover paradigm will appear on the right with options to choose a new image or change the electric current image'south size, position, and rotation. Please ensure any images intended to bleed extend all the way to the edges. Learn more about bleed.

Pick a template, then choice a blueprint layout Cover creator lets you choose a template that broadly matches your needs and and so refine your choice by selecting a layout within that template. Choose a template by hovering over the image of the template you want to use and click Choose this blueprint. The template will open up in a Cover Creator. On the bottom left of the cover, click Choose layout Select a layout that suits your needs from the available options.

Supercede the placeholder text on the back comprehend (title description and author bio) Click once in the text box. The text volition disappear and a cursor will announced in addition to a box with text formatting options. Note: if you click out of the text box without typing or pasting your text, the placeholder text will disappear. To reactivate the text box click where the text box should be and either type or paste your text. Paste or type your text in the text box Format your text: when y'all click on a text box, a long formatting options box will announced. Within this box you can format your text by (from left to right): Font Type, Font Size, Bold, Italicize, Font Colour, Drop Shadow, Justify Text (straight edges along each side with random spacing), Left Marshal, Center Align, Correct Align. Utilize the "Reset Way" button to discard your changes and return to the template default Annotation: If you determine you don't want a item text box, but delete the text and then information technology won't appear on your book cover. Yous but need to delete the text, non the text box.

Format text on your spine and front cover The title and author name on the front end cover and spine will auto-populate based on what you entered in your volume details, only you can change the style. By default the text will be prepare to autofit with a drop shadow. To format your text: Click on the text box. The formatting bar will appear. Highlight the text that you want to style, or right click in the text box once the cursor appears and click Select all. Using the formatting bar, make changes to the font, size, bold, italics, color, shadow, and alignment. You tin can ever go back to the template style using the "Reset Style" button on the right of the formatting bar. Note: If your manuscript is less than 130 pages, your cover should not include spine text.

Upload author photograph To upload your author photo: Click on the placeholder image. A pop-upwardly will open. Click From my computer and upload your author photo. Note: If you'd adopt not to have an author photo, no photo is needed in order to proceed forward. Simply leave the placeholder image where it is. The warning triangle that appears will not cake y'all from proceeding.

Preview your embrace in Cover Creator At the bottom of the page, click the Save button followed by the Preview button. Make sure that your embrace looks how you would similar it to look, and then click Save and submit. If yous want to make more changes to your cover, click Style & Edit in the height left corner to go dorsum and continue editing.

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How to use Cover Creator to submit a fully formatted JPEG cover

To upload your fully formatted JPEG paperback cover file:

1. Go to your Bookshelf.
2. Click the ellipsis push button (…) nether the Paperback or Hardcover Deportment menu and and then click Edit Paperback Content or Edit Hardcover Content.
3. Scroll down to Book Cover and click Launch Comprehend Creator.
4. On the Get images for your cover window, select From My Calculator and upload your JPEG encompass file and click Next.
5. Choose the 2d design from the left on the height row. This design accommodates a full wrap image. It as well includes filler text, which yous volition remove next.


6. Click Choose this Design to customize your comprehend.
   Note: All covers accept bleed. Please ensure all images intended to reach all the style to the edges when produced extend by the edge of the trim line past 0.125" (3.two mm). Learn more than virtually bleed.
7. Click each text box and the placeholder text volition disappear.
   Annotation: The author photo placeholder volition disappear if you don't upload an paradigm.


8. Click Preview to proof your piece of work. The empty text box fields volition non be visible on the terminal cover file.
9. Click Salvage and Submit.

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Troubleshooting

Back comprehend text and images

Placeholder text
When creating a new cover file in Cover Creator there are 2 text fields on the back cover (Title clarification and author bio). These fields are filled with placeholder text to permit you to meet how the text flows in the template before selecting it. When you click this text, the text disappears and a large blinking cursor appears. If you click exterior of this text box at this point, the placeholder text will non reappear. You will need to click in the location of the text box to reactivate information technology and and then paste or type your text. If you don't run into a cursor after clicking the location of the text box, just type or paste and your text will appear. If y'all're unable to edit text, you may need to try some other browser. We recommend using Chrome or Firefox.

Lines and spacing
When editing text in the description and writer bio section you might determine to ready the line length, ensuring each line fits in our desired format. If this is the case you will demand to set the font to a specific size and then enter a soft return at the end of each line. To practice this, hold the shift primal when inbound a return. This volition have the text to the next line without adding empty characters at the end of each sentence.

Tip: Hard return versus soft return

• Hard return: When a paragraph ends and a new one begins, yous use the Enter key. This will place the next judgement down with slightly more space in between lines to indicate a new paragraph.
• Soft return: When you lot want the line to break at a particular point but not create a new paragraph, agree down the Shift key downwards while y'all press Enter. This breaks a sentence across two lines without the additional spacing of a new paragraph.

Dorsum-cover images

• Author photograph: Please run across the Upload author photograph section above.
• Back-cover featured epitome: We accept one template that allows for a separate back-embrace featured image in improver to the writer photo. The template and layout options to do this are labeled in the screenshots beneath.

Front cover and spine text

The Title and Author Name fields on the forepart embrace and spine are linked. When text is edited or removed from the spine, the same alter will occur on the front.

Shifting spine text

Comprehend Creator was designed to create a comprehend that is sized correctly for your interior. This is done by computing the size of your cover from: the newspaper type (white/cream) chosen, how it is printed (color/black and white), and how many pages are in the interior. If Encompass Creator is launched before the interior file has processed, the correct calculation cannot be made. This results in text boxes shifting in the preview department of Cover Creator. If this should occur please move into the Print Previewer. If this error still shows in Impress Previewer, please contact usa.

Warning triangles

When creating your comprehend in Cover Creator the tool has a fashion of checking the elements you upload to ensure the best quality possible can be produced. Some of these triangles are warnings that will prevent y'all from submitting your cover (blockers) and others won't (warnings).
Notation: The triangles look the same regardless of whether they are a warning or a blocker.

Warnings: You tin proceed with the following warnings

• Low DPI (whatever paradigm under 300 DPI)
• Replace placeholder epitome for author photo

Blockers: These warnings will prevent you from proceeding

• Supervene upon placeholder text: must either be deleted or replaced
• Replace primary cover placeholder image: either select an prototype from the gallery or upload your own paradigm
• Cull a smaller size font: text must fit in the bachelor text box

Dotted lines in Cover Creator

A. The outer edge is the edge of your cover file
B. The white dotted line represents the trim line. This is where your publication will be cut to size. In the spine area, the white dotted line represents the edge of the spine.
C. The red dotted ruby-red line is the margin. All text volition need to remain within this line.

Tin I download Cover Creator and the cover I blueprint in the tool?

Cover Creator and covers made using stock images available in the Cover Creator tool cannot exist downloaded for utilise outside the KDP website.

Did you use Cover Creator on CreateSpace?

CreateSpace Encompass Creator designs aren't uniform with Embrace Creator on KDP. If you want to update your cover after it moves to KDP, you lot need to design a new one using KDP's Cover Creator. You can too employ our templates.

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