and then basically after we're done with all this let's say you have your cover you have
your graphic all done and you have the cover done you're ready to put this on your book and make a
lot of money yo what's up guys so in this video i'm going to teach you how to create a book cover
with Affinity Publisher and make sure you guys stay to the very end of this video i'm going to
give you a little gift for you to download and make sure you guys give this video a thumbs up
yo what's going on so right here um screen time tracker right so it's important to always start
off with knowing how many pages you have in your interior because we're going to use this
and we're going to go to the kdp official website kindle direct publishing official website and
um we're basically going to figure out the cover sizing right basically this video is going to help
you show you guys how to get the correct template size for your cover and um this is very important
because there's like you can literally i remember when i first started doing this it took me like
a week to get my first buck up right and the most important thing is this okay look at the the cover
how many pages we have we have 150 pages in here okay i'm going to show you exactly what why right
now so for that example the trim size on that one is a 8 by 10 and 150 page count now depending on
the paper color right whatever cream color white will use white for this example but this is always
going to be different because sometimes you'll create a book and it'll be 145 pages all right
or for this example would be 150 pages so always remember that when you upload a new book you don't
want to run into any type of issue so we'll go ahead and download that i'll put this link down
below in the description and then as you come over here too as well i'll put this one down below too
as well but it's going to give you a understanding exactly what we're going to go over right now so
just stay to the end of this video i'll give you the interior for free too as well it's important
that you just follow along with this right so i am going to go ahead and open this real fast extract
boom okay cool and basically what we just we just done the cover template right and now we're
going to come over here to Affinity publisher and come back here i'm going to pop the cover
here's the png size and I can actually upload that into Affinity publisher right now too but
this is what we're gonna do so this can be a little bit confusing I made a previous video
about this uh with PowerPoint and then with Canva too as well um it still works to this day so
what we're going to do is we're going to look at this right here right
so as you can see our spine is 8 or 0.34 right and then there's a bleed on each side so basically and
then the page so front and back so front is going to be 8 inches plus 0.125 that's the bleed for
the front cover right plus the back cover would be 8 plus 8.15 equals so that's what we're getting
16.25 but we are forgetting the spine so we gotta go over here to the spine
plus point three four and you're right why are you doing this for so let me show you right now should
I do this one first but it's okay we're still gonna get it right so we're looking at this the
page width right so we got it correct over here with the calculator so basically what we did was
front page lead spine front page bleed right and we got 16 which is going to be there was 16.59
so 16 5 9 right boom now the height all right so now we're just going to come over here so
it's 10 right 10 plus 1.25 is that plus 0.125 we got 10.25 10.25 all right now the dpi everything
facing pages turn that off and then uh we don't need none of that because we have everything all
configured right here right and literally you just save this template right okay and then you just
press create all right and then also to you can so we have that png file right you want to see if it
boom click there and then of course we want to center the bad boy all right came over to the
alignment i just center it exactly just to make sure that if when we zoom in too
just like looking at i mean look at it perfect boom oh did i move it yes i did real simple
right now this is the correct size right here um as you guys can see pretty much done right but
now that now the the part is uh you can start designing right real simple um also too you just
roll just click that off right there and make it disappear or that audacity thing come over
here this tool let me see click that and then as you're doing all this cool stuff you can like you
know just in case like you want to see you're not inside of the red marks right here because
it says not to put any designs right here um you can kind of just make it fade out right
and then uh you can put like the text of the cover and all that fun stuff right there
and this is really really really cool all right so i just added some little text right here now as
you can see it's not anywhere covered near the the red part right here because this is important too
because if you guys get it like close to the red part right here it's going to basically uh reject
the the book cover so as you start to do this so let me just take that off right there you're gonna
see how we have it right there and i'll just put it on there for the test video and then basically
after we're done with all this let's say you have your cover you have your graphic all done and you
have the cover done you're ready to put this on your book right so now we're going to use file
exports and then we're pdf and then make sure you click pdf for print 300 dpi export
test video and also too guys i'm not no designer i suck at designing by the way
i outsource i'm a big fan of outsourcing so i do have a team when it comes to design work and
all that stuff just to be very transparent so i want to come back over here to the kdp
actual dashboard so we're going to come over here 8 by 10.
i'm gonna upload that interior that i showed you guys and it's
gonna be down below in the description if you want
um
launch all right guys also you guys are gonna see that i changed the color of the background
because i put it white and you couldn't see if we like zoomed in if it fit correctly
and obviously it does so you guys see how i got the uh the correct margins around uh the outside
and the border so basically this book is good to go of course change the cover you know design for
the interior and you see we switched the pages boom boom done press approve go on to the pricing
and make a lot of money right i wish it was that easy but it's not that easy yeah of course uh the
cover is one of the most important parts when you're designing covers it's just as important
as the interior but for this example i just want to show you guys how to create the actual template
size so you can actually get the correct size and that's one of the most important parts the correct
size for your cover right because it's a lot of people run into this error right they reach out
to me all the time i can't upload my book because my cover is wrong the dimensions are wrong and
literally just right there exactly how i showed you is how you actually do that the correct way
and you can pretty much apply it to any single size or dimension a number of pages but each uh
book whatever interior is different of course but you want to make sure you have the page
correctly and plug it into the kdp template and it's going to give you remember the spot the spine
is different you know and then you gotta take into consideration of the size and all that stuff
so yeah and also too guys if you guys are unaware might have an interior service business uh pixel
pod studio and i'll put that down below come up with 10 interiors a month research niches all
research niches all new niches every single month new niche is 10 a month research keywords okay
and then also two custom line drawings for each niche so these templates are already
they're good sizing everything's correct they're also available in indesign powerpoint Affinity
Publisher we just added and yeah that's it i hope you guys enjoyed this video peace out