Cover design instruction
Oct 28, 2008 at 12:18PM There will be a full page of FAQ for how to's for dream album. But for now, this screen capture will answer many of your questions regarding how to use guide lines within the cover templates. This applies to all cover templates that you downloaded. Some of you may have old versions with no CREASE line guides.
CREASE guide line is important when you want the image smaller than the full cover size, just like this example. There is a crease line in both front and back that helps albums to open and close smoothly.
For the image to sit in the center of the ACTUAL HARD COVER- it will look naturally more centered, follow the cross guide lines in the front and back area.
When you use the full bleed image cover, then it is not so important. But try not to place anything that is important like line design, someone's eye or hair line... on top ot any guide line here. Guide lines are imaginary which may not match 100% with the places where actual folding or crease occurs.
And of course, if you have any question, please e mail us at info@thedreamalbum.com
This beautiful album was Chicago Children's Photographer Andrea Brogle's.
Reader Comments (6)
where are the album templates? It says on the how to, but there is no download links?
once you log into the site and click DOWNLOAD TEMPLATES under HOWTO.
I would prefer to create album layout in InDesign and export them as hi-resolution jpgs, does that work for your product? Thanks
HI Mimi,
Yes it works as long as the final files are JPGs.
So does that mean that the very edges are chopped off and do not make it into the final design? Or are they folded into the inside cover? Does the cover image actually have to go to the very edge of the cover template?
The product list indicates albums are now available with all varying amounts of pages - not just 30-40-50, yet the cover templates are not indicating the same (yet). I'm designing a cover for a 44 page 12x12 album. Which template do I use - the 40 page or the 50 page, or something else? Thanks.