Designing Your Cover with Cover Studio

Cover Studio brings your front cover image, back-cover copy, and spine together in one place, and produces a print-ready cover file sized to your book's actual page count and trim — something that's genuinely easy to get wrong by hand, since spine width depends directly on how many pages your book has.

What you can set

• Front cover image — upload your own cover art, or replace it any time; removing an image is one click.
• Back cover blurb — the copy that appears on the back of a printed book.
• Spine text — your title and author name, sized to fit the spine's actual width.
• Print specs — binding type, paperback or hardcover, and paper color (white or cream), all of which affect the final spine width calculation.

Why spine width matters

A paperback's spine gets wider as your page count grows, and the exact width depends on your paper choice too. Cover Studio calculates this for you from your book's actual current page count, so your spine text lands in the right place instead of being guessed and printed off-center.

Exporting your cover

Once your cover looks right, export a print-ready Cover PDF sized exactly to your book's trim, spine width, and bleed requirements — ready to hand off to a print-on-demand service or use as-is.

How to use it, step by step

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