Viovio Premium 12 x 12 photo books, The process: the cover

May 6th, 2010 by Heidi

I love the full-wrap covers on my photos books.  They make them look like elegant coffee table books!

Creating them correctly is important!  Viovio provides some templates and highly recommend you use them.   The information can be found here:  Book Cover Specifications.

I download the 12 x 12 full-wrap guide from Viovio to start creating my cover.

Some hints:

• Don’t expect the spine to hit exactly where the template says.  The number of pages in your book affect your spine and spine placement.  I don’t try do anything special to the spine (such as label the spine with text.)
• Don’t put anything close to the edges, especially text so it doesn’t get cut-off.

I open up the guide in my editor and and then design my cover using the template.

When I have it as I want, I hide the Viovio template and save the image as a jpg.

You don’t need to upload the cover to Viovio just yet.  During the photobook process, it will ask you to upload the cover and do it then!  We’ll start creating the photobook next!