Cover Design

Open the Cover Designer

Click the `Cover` button in the left sidebar of the editor. The Cover Designer opens with five tabs in the right panel. Your book title and author name auto-fill from the project.

What each tab does

A typical workflow

• Fastest: open the `Designs` tab, pick a preset, tweak the title text on the `Text` tab, save.
• Custom: pick a background on `Images` (or generate one on `AI`), set typography on `Text`, fine-tune on `Adjust`.
• Click `Save Cover` in the bottom right when you are happy. Cover Designer can be reopened anytime.

Upload your image

The `Upload Image` section is collapsed by default, so click it to expand first.

1. Open the editor for your book.
2. Click the `Cover` button in the left sidebar.
3. Stay on the Images tab (selected by default) and click `Upload Image` to expand it.
4. Click `Click to upload` and pick a JPG or PNG. 1600×2560 px recommended, max 5MB.

Two toggles below the file picker

• Show text on cover: turn off if your image already has the title baked in.
• Dark Overlay: subtle tint so app text pops against busy art. Overlay Opacity slider tunes the strength (30% default).

Image Controls (appears after upload)

Scroll down within the Images tab once your image is in:

• Image Fit: Cover (fill and crop, default), Contain (fit with letterbox), or Fill (stretch).
• Image Alignment: Center, Top, Bottom, Left, Right, or four corner anchors. Picks which part stays in frame after cropping.
• Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Grayscale, Blur: sliders for visual tuning without leaving the app.

Pick a style

Open the Cover Designer (`Cover` button in the left sidebar) and switch to the `AI` tab. You do not write a prompt; AI uses your book's title and content with the style you pick:

Show app typography overlay

AI usually draws the title into the cover itself, so this toggle (above the style grid) is off by default. Turn it on to also layer the app's title, subtitle, and author on top: useful if the AI text is hard to read or you want exact typography control.

Generate, then pick a concept

Click `Generate Cover`. After a few seconds, the "AI Cover Concepts" dialog shows multiple options. Click one to load it into the Cover Designer. Typography and layout stay editable on the `Text` and `Adjust` tabs afterwards.

Cost and limits

AI covers are a paid feature with a per-book quota plus credit overflow:

• Creator: 10 AI covers a month; extra covers use chapter credits.
• Premium and every AppSumo tier: 30 AI covers a month.
• Beyond quota: 1 chapter credit per cover (cost shown next to the Generate button).

Text tab: the basics

Open the Cover Designer (`Cover` button in the left sidebar) and click the `Text` tab. Each element (title, subtitle, author) has its own controls:

• Font: grouped lists (Script, Display, Serif, Sans-Serif).
• Colour: swatch picker plus a hex input.
• Weight: Regular / Bold / etc.
• Letter case: Upper / Normal / Title.
• Alignment: Left / Center / Right.

Text Layout: where it sits

Below the typography controls, the Text Layout grid offers eight presets: Classic, Center, Top, Bottom, Left Mid, Left Low, Right Mid, Right Low. Pick whichever lets the background breathe. Fine-tune exact positions on the Adjust tab afterwards.

Adjust tab: fine-tuning

For granular control, switch to the `Adjust` tab (slider icon, far right). Each element has a collapsible Settings card:

• Size: scale each element independently.
• Letter spacing and line height: tighten or loosen the lettering.
• Vertical and horizontal position: nudge to the exact spot.
• Text shadow: toggle on for legibility over busy art; tune blur, offset, colour.
• Text strip highlight: a coloured bar behind the text, for light backgrounds.
• Logo image: optional brand/imprint logo with its own position and opacity.

Live preview

Every change updates the preview on the left in real time. When you are happy, click `Save Cover`.

Steps

The `Download` button sits next to `Save Cover` in the footer of the Cover Designer.

1. Open the editor for your book.
2. Click the `Cover` button in the left sidebar.
3. In the bottom right footer, click `Download`.
4. Pick `Full cover` (with text) or `Image only` (no app text overlay).
5. The JPEG saves to your Downloads folder.

Which option?

• Full cover (with text): finished cover exactly as you see it in the preview. Default. Upload to KDP, Kobo, Apple Books, post to social.
• Image only (no app text overlay): just the background art, no app typography. Useful when your AI cover already has its title baked in, or you want raw artwork for a banner, ad, or Canva design.

Format

2000×3200 JPEG, sRGB, 1.6:1 aspect ratio. Comfortably exceeds KDP's minimum; works for Kobo, Apple Books, and B&N Press. Filename includes the dimensions.

Premium feature

Cover downloads unlock with any paid plan (Creator or Premium) or a one-time chapter credit pack (unlocks for life).

Where it lives

The front cover you design on the other tabs is the ebook cover. The `Print` tab adds the two extra panels a paperback needs: the back cover and the spine. Together they make the full wrap that Amazon prints.

1. Open the editor for your book.
2. Click the `Cover` button in the left sidebar.
3. Click the `Print` tab at the top of the designer. The preview switches to the full wrap: back cover, spine and front cover, left to right.

Back cover: your own image or a blurb

Under `Back cover`, click `Upload your own back cover` and pick a JPG or PNG under 5MB. If you type a blurb as well, it overlays your image; leave the blurb blank to print the image exactly as it is. Keep the bottom-right corner clear, because Amazon prints its own barcode there.

With no image, the designer lays the back cover out for you from the fields below it: a tagline, the blurb (leave it blank to use your book description), up to three praise quotes, an about-the-author paragraph, and your imprint and ISBNs, which sit bottom left away from the barcode. `Back cover background` sets the panel colour; most printed paperbacks use a flat colour rather than a blurred copy of the front.

Picture books and coloring books can show a few of their own pages under the blurb: set `Back cover layout` to `Page previews`. Under `Pages on the back`, tap up to three pages to choose which ones, in the order you tap them; `Pick for me` goes back to a few from across the book. On the Publish page, the Amazon listing kit's Description step has `Use the first lines on my back cover`, which puts the start of your listing description on the back. Export the KDP files again after any change, so the cover PDF has it.

Spine

Under `Spine`, set the text (it defaults to Title • Author), the font, and the text and background colours. The spine width is calculated from your page count and paper type, and the number is shown above the preview.

Spine text prints only when the book is 79 pages or more. That is Amazon's requirement, not ours: thinner spines cannot carry readable text, so the wrap leaves the spine blank below that count.

Ink and paper

Pick the same option you will choose in the KDP dashboard: `B&W · white`, `B&W · cream`, `Standard color` or `Premium color`. Cream and premium colour paper run thicker per page, so the choice changes the spine width. Until your first KDP export the trim size and page count shown are placeholders; the export sets the real values and the preview updates to match.

Getting the file

There is nothing to upload separately. When you export for KDP, the print-ready full wrap PDF is included alongside the interior, sized to your trim, page count and paper type, with bleed. Upload that PDF as the cover in KDP's paperback setup.