Wraparound Picture Cover

[Neil P]

Hi 

I want to start my soft cover photobook with designing cover. My photobook is going to be a A5, portrait soft cover book

I want a full wraparound picture cover and I wondered if this is an easy process, i.e as easy as drag and drop, or do I have to create a template etc ?

If so, can anybody point me in the direction of the correct tutorial to help me with this. there are lots of tutorials on the website but I'm finding it hard know where to start.

Many thanks for your help

Neil

[walt.farrell]

This seems quite similar to your other topic: 

 

 

[Neil P]

Yes, that's true.

But I need to understand the process of adding the photos or adding pictures to an existing template or whether I need to create one ?

Any ideas ?

thanks Neil

[thomaso]

What understanding do you have of "template"?
(IMHO a template is never required. A template can be used for documents which need to get filled in various versions, thus a template is almost empty and contains e.g. a certain page size, colour space & profile, maybe a grid or guides, text styles and possibly master page(s) … etc.)

For a cover you can just create a single page in the height of 1 and the widths of 2 book pages + add the required spine to the page width + bleed to all page edges. Then add photos in any of the available methods (place, drag-drop, open/copy-paste, …). The way of adding photos is fully independent of the document's use as cover or template.

Also layout variants of a cover don't need a template but may get created on additional pages within the same document – whereas only one finally preferred page gets selected in the export dialog window for export as e.g. PDF for print.

[Neil P]

Thanks Thomas.

I want to have a double page spread as my cover though, i.e back page and front page, one photo, so I somehow need to create a double page ? that's where the template idea came from.

Or is there a double page function in AP ?

Does that make sense ?

Neil

 

 

[Old Bruce]

15 minutes ago, Neil P said:

I want to have a double page spread as my cover though, i.e back page and front page, one photo, so I somehow need to create a double page ? that's where the template idea came from.

Or is there a double page function in AP ?

Does that make sense ?

I would do this as two separate documents. The Book. The Cover. They are going to printed differently.

The cover would be one page the size of two pages' width plus the spine.

[thomaso]

I still don't see any relationship between "double page" and "template". – Again, what means "template" in your understanding?

The question about creating a "double page spread" for a cover appears to be answered by your question in your other thread (mentioned by Walt) where you seem to be well aware of the spine between two pages, respectively as back of a book. Affinity does not allow more than 2 pages in a spread. Thus it is sufficient to create the cover as 1 page. Note that a soft cover always gets printed on 1 sheet that will become folded after printing.

For general info about basic use of Affinity you might take a look into the very first thread in this "Support and Questions" forum. It lists + links all sorts of topics in its various posts. If you find it hard to choose from the rich offer than start with anything which mentions words like "start", "basic", "beginner" in its name.

[Neil P]

Hi Thomas,

Ignore the word Template, I think I'm using the wrong word.

I think I understand where you are coming from now and yes, I fully understand the important of the spine now.

I'm delving into the beginners tutorials.

thanks for your help,

Neil