How To Design Book Covers for Print with Inkscape
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- In this tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can design a physical book cover that can be uploaded to Kindle Direct Publishing to be printed on an actual book.
You can download the templates from KDP here: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/cover-te...
CORECTION: At the end of the video I said that you should export your finished design as a JPG file. This is incorrect. KDP requires a PDF document, so instead of exporting, go to "File, Save As" and save your work as a PDF document.
Want to learn more about how Inkscape works? Check out the Inkscape Master Class - a comprehensive series of over 50 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function in Inkscape and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Download the template
01:26 Setting up the workflow
02:22 Setting up the template
07:56 Designing the front cover
12:39 Designing the spine
14:26 Designing the back cover
18:06 Exporting your work
19:18 Conclusion
Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission
Even though I won't be making book covers any time soon, I learned at least a few more things about inkscape.
I'm doing all my book covers in Inkscape. I learned most of my skills from your channel.
Sorry to bother you but I have a question:
Can we send it as an RGB colors file or should we always convert to CMYK?
Great tutorial, Nick! It's simple but effective to understand and recreate. Congrats!
I'm reaching 7K subs! Im sooooo happy! 🥳🥳🥳
Good to hear from you, Thiago. Congrats on your channel’s success
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I love what you're doing! Showing that one can learn, build up professional skills and create results that appear same as professional as done with industry Standart tools, but using FOS tools. These tools and the knowledge you share makes those things accessible to those who can't afford to purchase creative suites like Adobe etc.!
Thank you!!!
i really needed this, thanks Nick for the video
Dude, your tutorials are hooby for me! I really enjoy watching them.
I am super happy I came across this tutorial ☺... I am in love with using inkscape when creating all my graphics
Dude, you are amazing at what you do and I have to thank you for all of your Inkscape tutorials because I have a business of my own doing arts and crafts and DIY's and thing like that and I needed to create a logo, but didn't know how to. So I went on RUclips to learn how to create logos and do other things and I ran into your channel and thanks to you, as well as Davies Media Design for Gimp, I have been able to create a beautiful logo design for my online business. It almost feels like I have been using Inkscape for 100 years with all the videos your done, but in reality, I've only started using Inkscape for about a year and a half lol. But thank you for your knowledge on Inkscape cause it's helped me in a huge way.
Hearing this kind of feedback always makes my day. Thanks, Kurt!
I was waiting for this video ...please make more videos about the book covers and if you can make another one using Gimp
No CKMY. Fingers crossed, maybe after Gimp 3.0
Thank you for this, Nick! It's exactly what I need!
Another useful tutorial from the man who taught me to use Inkscape properly.
11:03 If you want to use italics with a font that it's not designed for (e.g., Impact), first you highlight the whole text (or part of it) and then you press cntr+i. To get it back to normal, you take the same steps one more time: Highlight the text and then cntr+i
Fantastic tutorial Nick, you're the George Clooney of .svg editor tutorials :)
This could have been very confusing, you've managed to distill a very complicated process into very achievable steps.
Thank you.
Sick tutorial - thank you
Your are a great teacher:) Was able to reproduce your example in~ 1 hour first time using Inkscape :))) Thank you !
Thank you so much, I literally needed this today!
This is a great video and very useful. Thanks for creating it.
Great tutorial as always.
Yess!! A new tutorial!
Love this tutorial and would love to see one on how to apply this cover to the book mockup like in the preview
Gosh I've been waiting for this video, make more please
Hi Nick, great tutorial again. I also use Inkscape in my workflow to setup print documents, however you may have missed something in the export area.
Set the export resolution to 300 dpi, then export as jpg. I read some other comments here where they said to save as PDF instead, for Amazon KDP, which actually flows into one of your solutions to convert Inkscape Artwork from RGB to CMYK using Scribus.
Inkscape 1.1 and Scribus has gotten a lot better, and I tried importing an Inkscape PDF to Scribus. Changing the colours to CMYK was super easy based on your tutorial, using the Colour Editor in Scribus.
Thanks again.
I have learned a lot from you. Thanks to your channel.
Btw, How to make that 3D mock-up that you made?
This is exactly what I needed today!
Wow, I’m into writing and was wondering about this topic for a while. Then you can along with this😁✨💫🔥.
You are a master!
Hey Nick, this is awesome! And I really appreciated all your tutorials. One thing......I thought by the thumbnail picture for this video that you were going to make a book cover look 3D. Can you do a follow up video to this one and turn what's in this video into a 3D book? Thanks so much!
Hi, Nick. Nice work as always.
I just have some requests. Will you be able to upload tutorials on how to do glassmorphism on inkscape and liquid mesh gradients? I just want to learn how to create those on inkscape and I'm sure many of your subscribers also do.
Love the intro music.
This was a great video on how to handle the file and manipulate the tools, as always. Could you make a video on the artistic principles of design? How do I come up with an eye-catching, professional layout for a book (or a logo, for that matter?) You talked about the principles of text hierarchy, could you share some information on that sort of thing?
I have a lot of design principle stuff on my website. I’m usually better at conveying this sort of thing through a written format
Love the channel since it's inception 🤗. You're a wizard, Nick 🧙🏻♂️. Time for face reveal.
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Its time to see a Scribus tutorial!
hope you can make an tutorial extension render Layout the n-up layout, perfect bound cover template and printing marks
Hi Nick, as allways excelent video, I just have to add something: the resolution at the end of the process it is set to 96dpi and that is not good for printing, better work on 150dpi or even 300dpi. Also we must to set a color profile to CMYK on document setting section. Finally, .jpg format is a lose quality format, it is good for screen but for printing I prefer .png or pdf cause, if you have transparencies and dept colors it will save you a lot of mistakes on final results. Thank you for share your knowlege, I really learned a lot follow your videos.
Inkscape doesn't have CMYK color profile.
@@koharaisevo3666 If you go to document properties then hit colors section and select one of the two Artifex CMYK color profile, it is work just fine.
Excellent, as usual!
I'm a huge PNG fanboi and didn't know JPG was better for printing. Thank you for that bit of info. Now I'm super curious as to why, though?
I misspoke a bit there. JPEG is usually what these print services ask for.
@@LogosByNick Aha, ok. Thank you for clearing that up. And again, great tutorial! Most of what I know about Inkscape (and Gimp) comes from your vids.
As long as there are no Photos on the Cover, I think PNG would be the preferred format. JPG can result in quite unappealing compression artifacts.
Also, whenever possible I export as PDF, because it retains the vector information for crisp reproduction in print. Though I don't know if Amazon supports that, I've never used that service.
As always excellent video and no denying that professionalism.
That *ipsum* thing made me realize that I need more experience.
Is it okay if I chose "selection" while exporting
1 Request : wanna see your setup 😓
Finnaly 🔥🔥🔥
well, i create covers for my books since one year.
at first i learnd picture editing by myself.
step by step it comes better and better
Hi Nick! Thx again for your tuto! Are you not afraid to do that on Inkscape as it doesn’t allows you to convert in CMYK for printing?
Hi Nick,
I love your inkscape master class.
I'm uploading the template into inkscape from KDP but it's 103 inches wide by 52, did you scale it down for this tutorial?
Thank you
Valerie
can you make a video tutorial on "How to make a mock up or attach a design to a mock up using inkscape or GIMP"
I would be very interested in films about KDP and Inkscape. In general, how to quickly create or modify graphics in Inkscape for publication on KDP. If you have experience with program Scribus, how create books with Inkscape artwork as well.
Please make a video about font pairings i.e. What makes a good font pairing, Different font pairings, etc.
Nick, KDP Paperback actually requires the Book cover to be a single PDF file. **I see you added that statement to the description** Thanks
Or you can do it png an take it through their designer and delete their text overlay to preview it properly. I have found sometimes the page will be off by a hair even though I use the template. Another issue is centering letters on the front because the points are not exactly where it shows. Hard to explain but a pain. Some people don't care about it being off center a bit.
Wlcome back to RUclips 💜
Good to know
Hello sir, ur new sub here and wanted to ask u about, which of ur playlist should i start with to properly learn inkspace????
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thx
Hello... thanks a lot for the video, why not save the file as PDF for printing????
@LogosByNick, how and where did you design the 3-D book image with the cover design applied, please?
Hey Nick do you recommend any software that helps with graphical assets organization?
Nick,can u send the link of inkscape ,the version which you have,please.
Can I export it as a pdf.
Btw great video as always
nice tutorials, i just wanna ask how can i get a .jpg, .jpeg or .png output for Inkscape? cant find it in the savings properties. thank you
You'll have to use the Export menu to export it as a JPEG. Tutorial here: logosbynick.com/save-as-jpg-with-inkscape/
Great video as always. I have a question Nick, in Inkscape each time I want to align my text in "justify" (equally distributed from left to right to occupy the whole area, the last option in the alignment type list) I can't do it because it is always unclickable. Do you have any idea?
Is the text only on one line? It needs to be on at least two lines I think
@@LogosByNick actually it's a paragraph. The only solution that worked, I had to insert a lorem ipsum paragraph, align the paragraph then replace the lorem ipsum with my text.
Tutorial mock up please
How can I slice images using guides in inkscape?
do you plan on giving some discount on your course soon? it's already with a pretty reasonable price but i'm brazilian and the exchange is not favorable at the moment (5BRL/1USD).
If you copy the green frames to your content layer you can align the text and everything with these frames. Before you'll save the cover as a PDF you'll need to delete these frames of course.
Can you make a DVD design?
A tutorial on how you took that book cover from 2d to 3d would be most appropriated.
Yeah, looks pretty sweet, almost as if Nick did it in Blender, but I can guess it was still done in Inkscape.
I love this. But for some reason my inkscape only exports as PNG. I don't have any other format that I can choose from.
Sir I use inkscape to create seamless patterns to sell on Shutterstock. Will my buyers face any problem in printing the designs as it does not give output files in CMYK format.
thanks. i want to create an a5 or a6 printable that can be folded into a booklet. are you able to direct me to a good source for how to do that? i have scribus but i have no idea whether I should design each singular page in inkscape then paste it into scribus (if that's even possible) or if i need to create a series of larger pages like you have here but with the images on one side and the text on the flip side that will need to be folded? it's just very confusing to me.
sir nick can you make a tutorial again about making that mountain logo in 2015 buck mountain was the name of that project hope you notice me thanks
Step 1: write a book.
Got it!
I tried do nake a book cover with this tutorial and i struggle because you didn´t always explain what hotkeys you pressed or hold pressed and mouse click then. So i always come to a certain point and then i don´t know what to do. Is there another tutorial where all this quick scaling etc. is explained?
I would like to purchase your course for The Logo Design Academy
but it seems most of your content is related to inkscape
i would like to learn how to use Adobe illustrator since that's what i have
any full lesson and tutorials on how to use Adobe illustrator like a pro
I love your videos, but I have a problem with Inkscape for some reason it won't open any more on my computer, it is installed but when I open it it deletes it and reinstalls them and it's a loop, not sure if I'm the only one of you know why, but I don't know why it won't open anymore
Please bring a complete tutorial on gimp
Actually you'd want to export to PDF, per KDP's help docs.
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How do you deal with cmyk in Inkscape?
I wouldn't use .png as a template and commercial printers will be less than happy with any of this.
Why we choose a px measurement for a vector software drawing?
Actually, it's one of the default measurements in Inkscape, px and mm. However, in the Document settings, you can easily change it to Inches, or change it in the Context-Sensitive Menu at the top, where you change the sizes of objects.
I assumed it was to perfectly size the drawing area to the template in png format. But on second thought, it shouldn't really matter which measurement unit is used (?). One should be able to adapt the drawing area to the content regardless.
Are you sure you should export it at 96 dpi?
Should we expect your book in near future Nick? 😁 Or it was just a random idea for tutorial? 😁
Just a tutorial idea
If you are making a cover your are going to professional print it and where in the video you incorporate the CMYK Fogra profile, i did not catch that 😁😂
Shouldn't you export at 300 dpi? ou at least 150 dpi?
The thing with changing the DPI in Inkscape is that it changes the image’s dimensions as well, which means the design would be rejected. So for this instance I leave it as is
@@LogosByNick You can enforce 300dpi while exporting an image and keeping its original dimensions: In the export menu, go to "Advanced" and open the options. Then go to "pHYs dpi" (physical dpi), insert the value of 300 and press "enter". While nothing seems to changed in the "Image size" frame and it still shows "96,00dpi", if you now press "Export As", your image will be exported with 300dpi.
You didn't touch on the RBG vs CMYK for print. But great tutorial, nonetheless.
Sir, Can we work for client using free graphic designing softwares like - Inkscape, GIMP, etc...
And Earn Money on Fiverr, Upwork, etc...
Sir Please 🙏 Answer my Question.
LOVE FROM *INDIA* 🇮🇳 ❤
Absolutely. I did so for years.
@@LogosByNick Thank You❤ Sir for giving me answer and I Understand.
Is this what it feels like to be first?
I signed up for your class but deleted my email
Hi Donna, if you can email me I'll get everything squared away for you: questions@logosbynick.academy
Nick talks about a bleed line and everything outside the dotted line being cut, to have image printed that goes beyond the edge of the paper,it has to be cut through the image, making the image "bleed" off the edges.also printing a book without very expensive equipment is a task into itself.If you have ever noticed sticky notes that are printed on the edges, that's how it's done .
Poo on Amazon. I use IngramSpark, and we do all of it, including the barcode. You can have a background image that bleeds past your cut lines.