yeah what's up guys so in this video I'm going to teach you guys how to create a cover using
PowerPoint okay so we're in the back in of PowerPoint what's up what's going on so if you
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comment down below and say what's up man so yeah so we're in the back end right here a PowerPoint
I'm gonna show you guys how to create a 6x9 cover right here okay everybody get the exact dimensions
down a little pride they're like a little design on there for an example and this is her this is
the back end right here this is when you started so what I did was come over here to new and then
blank presentation right and what you're gonna do you don't want to delete this stuff get this
stuff out the heck out the way there it is delete it right then when I come up here to the left hand
side it says design and then we're scroll all the way down right here's slide size right and then
custom slide size now okay I'm gonna take you to this right here this information is very important
guys because if you get this wrong you mess up everything right so you want to understand this
right here okay go back and replay this and watch this over and over and over and like I said for
this example we're doing a six by nine okay very important that you guys understand that and what
I would do too is basically whatever size covers that or what size books you guys are creating I
would save every single one of these to the your actual drive over your computer your C Drive D
Drive or whatever drive save it to your computer so you can have a template a template of these
and you're not going back and forth and doing this over and over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over and over and over right it's all about speeding up the process
of making your cover so you can have everything there and you can make the best quality cover
because you want me to come back and doing this over and over and over you want to focus on the
cover you want to have the best cover best cover in your niche right and that's very important to
guys if you guys don't understand that I'll make a video on that too as well but very important that
you guys understand that having the best cover in your niche is important because that's kind
of like the thumbnail right that's the thing that's gonna drive your traffic to that book
they're gonna look scroll down like oh that's a cute cover click by you know enemy or look check
out the inside or check out your description and whatever okay and then add it to cart and purchase
it so very important that you guys understand is you guys want to research your niche right
when it comes to this research your niche for the covers because it can be patterned super the well
pictures and as I mean what I mean by pictures like you can take a picture of your city you
can take a picture of or take a picture of a dog okay take a picture of your dog and put it on a
cover you and then you can just yeah but that's basic basically that's what you can do right so
it's pretty cool like you can get very creative with this type of stuff and there's a lot there's
a lot that you can do okay when it comes to cover so but like I said patterns do really
well pictures of dogs or pictures of whatever the heck niche you're in they do really well
so let's get straight into this so we're gonna come over here you are going to come over here
to create a paperback cover and I'll link all this stuff down below in the description guys
you guys go and check out everything down there formatting your cover background okay now the
bleed all covers have a bleed right so we want to pay attention to this right here okay so very
important so all covers okay doesn't matter what size it is all covers okay doesn't matter what
size your cover is they all have a bleed okay straight up straight up okay also so adding a
text okay this is very important too when it comes to doing your your coverage because when you add
a text and you have it too close to the bleed it's going to Amazon's gonna reject it because
it's too close to the side and it might cut it off so very important that you guys understand
that too that's happened to me a few times right oh hello three books right and they get rejected
because the text is so close to the edge like dang it now I've gotta wait another two days
and then obviously right now with the delays you're waiting like five days so yeah that's
it kind of sucks so make sure you guys are paying attention to that as well so this right here it's
gonna give you the breakdown right here on the back end and some give you all the information
I'll put that down below in the description and then over to the next one so now this is
the paperback cover templates this is pretty cool because this is basically this is gonna help you
write here guys so you want to understand this right here because depending on the page cover
I mean the page count this little bad boy right here your spine is always gonna be different
depending on the page count okay you don't want to mess that up okay it's very important so if
you're creating in this example we're in create a page count for 150 right so what we're gonna do
is going to will get straight into it right now someone can skim sighs but I'm gonna 6x9 where
the heck are you six by nine page count 150 right and this is basically how many pages are in your
book okay so how many pages are in your book this is what you're gonna put right here okay and then
the color paper paper color sorry white and then download and click right here it's gonna pop up
a little picture for us alright a little bad boy right here alright so now you can see right here
the spine 0.34 so with the hundred fifty pages mine's gonna be point three four now everyone
this so if you get a hundred and twenty pages is gonna be different care the spine dimensions
are gonna be different so you want to keep loaded that right write it down write it down keep note
of that kay it's very important that you guys understand that okay so all right now now that
we got this okay this little bad boy it's gonna be our cheat sheet right here okay our little
cheat sheet you have some little notes ooh those notes right here right here right here and right
here and then what we're gonna do is go back to PowerPoint bad boy right here so now we're
gonna pull up our little art so now we're gonna pull up our calculator right and basically what
we're gonna do is the width okay so the width the width all right so from left to right so the width
so we're going to do so this is the front page this is the back page right so what we're gonna
do and this is of course this is the spine okay and then this is the bleed and we remember we
have to add 0.125 for the bleed okay left right okay very important that you guys understand that
very important so what we're gonna do first so we are going to do the width so six plus
six right it's 12 and then plus 1.25 right plus 1.25 now what the heck is the spine right member
where I told you about the spine don't forget the spine very important 0.34 okay plus 0.3 0.3 for
twelve point five twelve point five nine so twelve point five nine and then BOOM and then no no what
the heck am i doing forget the the height right so what is the height of this the height okay so it's
nine so this is gonna be a little easier right so it's it's gonna be nine inches right that's easy
right so very easy so because the basically the width of course it's the whole left and right and
then the height that just straight up and down right so very easy nine plus remember the bleed
one point two five plus or two five nine point two five right I have one two five all right
okay looking good holla okay now we're insure fit and boom now okay now we got our correct
size down okay like I said now like what do you do now like how can I make sure like I'm in the make
sure I'm in the like you know have the correct sizing and I'm adding so so basically what you
do what you're gonna do now is we're gonna add some shapes in here to kind of help us keep us
like there we go so all right oh okay and then we risk control right I'm highlighting this basically
and we're gonna add some like I said we're gonna add some color in here so we can see what we're
designing or putting stuff on there control C so the oh right you feel me you feel me got it
okay and then we can also too we can change these colors so for this this is an example
guys as an example you can do whatever you want you can add a little little badge here you can
add it like another insert another shape in here you can do whatever you want I can you put some
little lines in there do whatever you want right here right but in this example it's gonna add a
I just want to show you guys how to do it kind of give you the thought process on how creating this
and also to like it this is very easy guys don't overthink this okay don't think you can't do this
you can do this okay it's simple okay understand that it's very simple tell yourself that you can
do it and you can do it okay and then we change of colors sometimes here here black right black
background and then we'll add a let's add a picture right so little okay let's uh this
for example that's at one of these right on sad thanks for not being a prick okay let's add that
one Oh what out it oh there we go see Oh God let me fix that right there there you go perfect okay
all right now you see these little red lines so we're gonna make this design a little smaller okay
there's the middle of this side right so there's the middle right there well okay you can see see
it's kind of see where the middle is we don't wanna get too close from the left or right and
we also don't want to get close from the top to bottom Kate very important that you guys
understand that and that is our front cover right there okay and then now let's say the back cover
it's very simple guys very simple you can come in here you can add like some text add a little like
a little logo on the back or whatever you plan on doing you can add whatever right here in the
backend but for this example it's go ahead and leave it blank I just want to show you guys how
easy it is to do this and customize it you can add shapes in here you can put some wording in those
shapes so it turns it into like a little badge for the cover or whatever the heck II want to do okay
so everything you're thinking right now you can do it okay promise you that so then we're gonna come
over here to file okay we're all done guys we're all done by the way we're all done we're gonna
come over here to file save as and then here and then we're going to save as a PDF right and then
go over this one save okay and boom okay saved it right there and then what we're gonna do is come
over here to KDP and we're gonna go down here you got to make sure so make sure you have all this
correct stuff so six by nine white paper come down and then we're going to go ahead and come
over here to upload and then the one we just saved look okay and this is just an example guys always
use this one is a little example and then okay we got everything correct so this this interior tools
it's a six by nine and it has a hundred fifty pages okay just to just to double-check with you
guys and make sure you guys are following along with me and I want to come on here to the launch
pew viewer alright guys so I wanted to make sure that it went through and I want to show you guys
the proof that it went through so the cover is good okay I'm pulling the sides right here guys
also to a little quick pro tip like I said if you guys don't have the sizing right or from left to
right it KTP will push it through but it won't check it so what you want to do is you want to
make sure that you check this part right here on this side because you'll see like a little
gap between the the edge and the actual cover so make sure you guys it's very important that you
guys understand that and then you guys can see right here we're all good like everything's good
right here so everything's looking nice and then basically what I would do now is approve and go
on to the next phase by pricing your book right so hopefully this helped if you guys have any
questions please comment down below but showed you guys how to create a cover using PowerPoint