Canva's book cover maker makes book covers amazingly simple to design – even for non-designers. Create a professional book cover for freeYou’ve done the hard work and created an amazing book. Make sure it sells out by creating an awesome cover design!Canva’s free book cover maker is ridiculously easy to use – even for the novice or not-so-tech-savvy writer. Our book cover maker allows you to choose from hundreds of layouts, making it easier than ever to create a memorable cover.Open a New Book Cover DesignCreate a beautiful book cover in under 5 minutesOpen Canva and select the “Kindle Cover” design type or insert your own custom dimensionsChoose from our library of professionally designed layoutsUpload your own photos or choose from over 1 million stock imagesFix your images, add stunning filters and edit textSave and shareCustomize your book cover to suit your book genreChange the images. Upload your own images or choose from our stock library of over 1 million photographs, graphics and illustrations.
Choose from of over 130 fresh fonts.Choose a background from our library or use an image.Change the color of your text boxes and text to add extra flair.Choose from our library of premium stock photographyIf you have your own photographs or graphics you would like to use, you can upload them to Canva for free. Once your images are stored in your library, you can use them as many times as you like.Canva also gives you access to a library of over 1 million stock images, graphics and illustrations. Many of these images are also free, while premium images are all priced at just $1. Using professional photography will allow you to create a high quality book cover that’s ready for Kindle and other ebook sites. There are no recurring fees once you’ve published your high quality design.Create a professional book cover without hiring a designerCanva’s collection of book cover layouts is the best on the web! Our team of awesome designers have worked hard to create quality layouts which will help your book look professional and sell out.
You won’t need to spend hundreds hiring a designer when you create your own awesome cover in Canva’s book cover maker.Promote your book with CanvaTo share your book cover with your friends and colleagues, simply click the ‘Share’ button on the top right of the editor. This will allow you to share your design on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and more. to start creating your amazing book cover. You don’t need to download Canva, just create an account and log in.If you want to download on the go, download our iPad app. It’s free to purchase from the Apple store.Save your book cover as a PDF to print it in stunning high resolution. If you’ve used paid elements from Canva’s library you can go ahead with a print run of up to 2000 copies. If you’re creating a cover for an e-book, you can share and sell it as many times as you like.If you’re working in a team or with a co-author, you might need to collaborate. To allow other people to edit your design, tick the box next to ‘Share/email as an editable design’.
This will give them access to edit your design in their personal Canva account.Watermarks are used to brand or to protect paid images that are owned by the photographer. After creating your design in Canva, simply click the Download button and choose to export your design as an image or PDF.As this point you will be prompted to pay for any images within your design. Once you do, your image or PDF will download straight to your computer without the watermarks.Book Layout Templates We are proud to deliver the highest quality printed books in the business. A key part of that is making sure the files we send to our printing presses are pristine and perfect, every single time. Text Templates are only for the body of your book and do not include the book cover template. You will download a .ZIP file that contains our templates in multiple design programs. Please save this to your computer, and then unzip to get access to the templates. You will be issued a cover template AFTER saving a quote and uploading your text file.
BookBaby will calculate your book's spine width based on the specifications you select when configuring your book along with the number of pages in the uploaded text/body file. Get it right the first time. Download our helpful Book Printing Preparation Checklist PDF. We offer templates for use with the following design programs: Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Word All text files must be in our design templates. All files and images should be high resolution (300 PPI) and converted to CMYK color. Save B&W images in Grayscale color mode. Remove template guidelines before saving and uploading the final PDF design. All fonts must be embedded. The left and right text margins for manuscript pages should not be less than 7/8ths (0.875). Page Bleed is 1/8". Microsoft Word users: If you are copying and pasting text from another Word document into our Word template page, be sure to use Word’s Paste Special command instead of the default Paste command.
Using the default Paste command will change the size of the destination page to the size of your source page. Finished text files must be submitted in PDF format. When exporting your final PDF for submission, we recommend exporting your PDFs using the PDF/X-4 preset available in every layout application. Learn how to export a PDF. If you have files that are setup to a trim size not included in our standard templates listed on this page, please contact our customer support team for a custom quote. The templates listed on this page represent our standard trim sizes but we do print and bind most trim sizes up to and including 9” x 12” in both softcover and case bound formats. We also offer professional in-house book cover design and text design/formatting services.Properly sized templates for book manuscripts and covers can be downloaded from the Book Builder. Go to the Create > Create Print Books Choose a product line Standard Paperback, Premium Paperback, Premium Hardcover)