The Cover for the Ebook

Do you need to create a professional cover that meets the technical specifications required for publishing your ebook?

No problem. The Unlimited plan of StreetLib Write allows you to create a perfect digital cover for your ebook! You can use this feature even if you didn't use our app to create your ePub. 

P.S.: Did you know that with the Pro plan you have included a year of Write Unlimited? Find out more here.

Here's how:

The digital cover wizard

Log in to Write and click on CREATE A NEW selecting Create a cover:

Choose to create the cover for ebook:

A screen will open that will ask you to upload or drag the image you want to use for your book. Remember that the image must always be public domain or you must have the necessary rights to use it. You have two possibilities:

1. if you don't have an image yet, click on FORWARD. You will be able to create it in the following steps using Artificial Intelligence.
2. if you already have an image ready for your cover, just upload it in this step. If your image already contains the title and author name, just check the box "The image already contains the title and author," otherwise don't check this box and just click FORWARD after uploading the image.

At this point, you can choose the color schemes proposed by us based on the cover image you uploaded in the previous step or modify them. All the cover colors can be modified at any time, so at this stage you can also decide to use one of the proposed color schemes. You will also have to choose the size of the ebook cover. The ebook has two covers: one inner to the book and one outer. The sizes are indicated in this article.

By clicking FORWARD, the wizard takes you to a new screen where you can enter the book title and author name, because the image uploaded in this example did not contain any text. You can also decide how to position the title and author name on the cover, although you can change the position of the texts later at any time.

By clicking FINISH, the steps for creating the cover are completed. You can start making all the changes within the editor.

Editing the digital cover

Once the cover is created, you can make all the changes you prefer, using the useful tools provided by the editor. Here are some of them:

1. Change the position of the title and author name

The title and author name are two separate frames, so you can drag them to any point on your cover. In this case, I want both text to be within my sphere, so I will position them by dragging both frames down.

2. Change the text color 
To change the color of the text, click on the paintbrush symbol at the top. In this case, I want my text to be the same color as the background, so I select the eyedropper symbol and click on the background of the image. This way, the text color will become the same as the background.



3. Use filters to modify the background image
Write provides various filters to modify the background image. You can adjust the brightness, opacity, contrast; you can transform it to grayscale or blur it, depending on your needs. For example, I want to change the tint of the image because I would like it to be in shades of purple, how do I do it? Click on the paintbrush symbol and then on Filters. Check the Hue Rotate box and move the slider until the image has the tint you prefer. Attention, the filters only modify the image and not the text.

Now all you have to do is download the file by clicking on DOWNLOAD to use it as the cover (internal or external) of your ebook.