My Photo Creations - Customizing Your Book

Creating Your Cover

1. Cover View

2. Adding a Background

3. Adding Images and Text

4. Adding Spine Text and Images

1. Cover View - Viewing the cover in the Page Layout is the same as viewing the content, except that from here you can also edit your spine.

2. Adding a Background - Adding a background to your cover is the same as adding a background to your content, you can apply it as a Single or Two Page Spread.  If you choose a Single Page Spread then you can apply a different background to the front, back, and spine of the cover.  If you choose a Two Page Spread the background will be spread across all three parts.  This is not restricted to our backgrounds, you can use any image you like as the background, just keep in mind that the edge of the photo will be cut off.

3. Adding Images and Text - Just like adding a background to your cover, adding images and text is the same as adding it to your content.

• Adding Images
• Adding Text

4. Adding Spine Text and Images - Adding Text and Images to the spine is the same as adding it to the other parts of the cover, although there are some restrictions.

• For soft cover books, the minimum page count required to have spine text is 90 pages.  For hard cover books there is no minimum.  If you add spine text to a soft cover book that does not meet this requirement you will be asked to resubmit your cover without the text.

• For soft cover books the minimum page count required to have spine images is 210 pages.  For hard cover books the minimum for spine images is 150 pages.  If you add spine image(s) to a book that does not meet the requirements you will be asked to resubmit your cover without the image(s).

• Adding Spine Text - To add spine text click your right mouse button anywhere on the spine, and when the menu opens click on then

Once the text box is created double click it to edit your spine text.  With the text box selected you can also change your font type and color just like any other text box, however your text size will be restricted by your spine width.

• Adding Spine Images - To add an image to the spine select the image in the Image Viewer and drag it onto your spine. 

Select add picture, it will automatically be resized to fit within your spine and it will be centered.

To move the image, select it and use the arrow keys to move the image to the desired location.