Create A Space Cover Questions

template

You can provide a pdf of whatever artwork you wish, using createspace's template builder.

https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do

You supply the cover size and quantity of pages, they send you a template that will work. For instance, since I'm almost done with my second book and I wanted to play around with possible covers, I guesstimated 450 pages, book size of 5.5x8.5 and they gave me a file/folder I can use in Photoshop.

Create your art and stay inside their guidelines and then convert to a pdf when you're done. There's a size limit for your finished file; search the site and it should tell you. I think it's around 40 mb, but I actually don't remember. I'll run into that in a couple of weeks, esp if I keep my cover art as I have it now. Just a matter of resolution. Usually, I design at 300 dpi and don't have an issue with the finished pdf.

Hope this helps.


Michael

I'm in the process of publishing a book through Createspace and have gotten to the cover stage. I already have a cover that I used when I went through another printer, but decided to check out their cover tool. I was very pleasantly surprised. I was given a nice number of templates -- none of which I thought was great, but I picked one and went on. The templates were all sized to my book, and I was only shown ones that would work. One I'd selected one, there was a left side menu that let me go through and change darn near everything -- font family, colors, adding my own picture, text, changing the whole template! I was very pleased and wound up with something that I really like. But I haven't locked it in, and could still change my mind and upload my own file. I'd plan to take a look at it when and if you get to that stage. (The book is a collection of short stories that has some limited audience -- and possibly more if I get it on an ordering machine.)