How to Design a Paperback Wrap Book Cover for Amazon KDP in Photoshop

How to Design a Paperback Wrap Book Cover for Amazon KDP on Photoshop // Self-publishing your book on Amazon KDP and planning to design the book cover yourself? In today's video, I'll be teaching you how to design and export your book cover wrap in Photoshop so it's ready for printing on Kindle Direct Publishing.
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[@MandiLynnWrites]

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[@renepoggenpoel1711]

Fantastic! I am even more motivated to take your courses next year. Now I’m sweating through the heart attacks of publishing my memoir 😅 Thank you much for providing all these publishing education videos. I was just thinking about 30 years ago before all the online resources etc. I immigrated to the USA without any internet and email available to me. I love the modern times!

[@DCTart]

I appreciate you doing this. I have done it myself and I tell you it is not easy.

[@AidenFeltkamp]

This was super helpful. Thank you!!

[@Loud_Thinker]

Terrific tutorial.

[@destresswithyoga]

Incredible ❤

[@miavaiofficial]

watching you from Bangladesh.

[@4ucarla885]

Doesn't the book cover file Layers have to be flattened through "Flatten Image" before making the cover into a PDF? Or save the book cover into a PDF book cover file while it is in the Photoshop layers format? Thanks.

[@frantrajai]

Hi! In what format do you save the file? rgb or cmyk?

[@bigjimstream]

Hi Mandi, I dropped a comment on some of your other vids. Just wondering if Ingramspark supports a "french cover" or "french flaps" for paperback books? Also called a gatefold. If so, any experience with it and is it costly? Thanks, Jim

[@MD-pb2gu]

How do you save your guides? Thanks!

[@ovnilab]

*What resolution should the image file be saved at? 150 DPI or 300 DPI?*

[@lorieovalle4288]

Draft 2 digital in order to have our book with them, they are asking for a picture of me & my license. Is this true?

[@Yanpatan]

Does KDP allow social media handles?

[@lifeandnaturexperience]

i watched already like 50 videos nobody talk about size, my cover loading like 30 minutes and nothing , also nobody tell it must be page after page like a book pages or it is one list where both pages are available , is there any formatting required?

[@Exayevie]

That "page turn direction" kind of threw me. I get that you move through the book from left to right, but the actual page turns are taking the page on the right and moving it to the left... if I had been reading this on my own, I absolutely would have thought the standard western answer would be phrased as right to left. So confusing...