How to create a book cover with spine

Hardcover Design

      Designing a book cover is an art. You might be finding a lot of YouTube videos. But here you can find the steps to achieve it.

We can design book covers using Adobe InDesign, illustrator and Photoshop.

Using Photoshop:


Requirements for a hard cover:


  1. You should know the dimensions of the book for which you are going to design a cover. Book dimensions define your cover dimensions.
  2. Spine width calculations for a hard cover 
  3. To calculate spine width, you should know the number of pages inside the book.
  4. Bleed for printing. Usually people go for 25mm bleed for hard cover. And 3mm bleed for inside of the book.


Once we have all the calculations, we start designing the cover in Photoshop in next blog post.

-evv2017

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