Cover image size, h/w-ratio

How can I get my book cover as large as possible in the store? Many books have a different hight/width ratio than what appears to be the case with my templet. They get higher cover images (and thus more visibility) in the store. It's unfair... I want hight... Can't find a way to change the ratio on the cover image.
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Nancy:
That particular frame is about 13.4 x 10 inches. I wasn't about to determine the exact size but that gets you very close to including all of the cropped image when the Fit Photo to Frame is not selected. You don't need to crop it in Photoshop, just crop the original in iPhoto to a Custom size, 13.4 x 10.
As far as resolution is concerned the larger the image the better, pixel wise. So always set your camera to the largest size and quality level possible. You can always downsize but you can't upsize.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Does anyone know the preferred size, resolution, and/or aspect ratio for images to be properly displayed on calendar pages and covers? Specifically, I am having trouble with the cover image for the "Modern Lines" template. I can't get my image to fit properly; in most cases it is too large and I can't reduce it any further using the iPhoto contextual menu that appears. But if I reduce the size of the image in Photoshop, then iPhoto still blows it up too large, and it again cannot be reduced sufficiently.
Some documentation on recommended image sizes and resolutions would be appreciated!!
thanks

Nancy:
That particular frame is about 13.4 x 10 inches. I wasn't about to determine the exact size but that gets you very close to including all of the cropped image when the Fit Photo to Frame is not selected. You don't need to crop it in Photoshop, just crop the original in iPhoto to a Custom size, 13.4 x 10.
As far as resolution is concerned the larger the image the better, pixel wise. So always set your camera to the largest size and quality level possible. You can always downsize but you can't upsize.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Image Size or Aspect Ratio? Or??

I am working on a Premiere CS5 movie project that requires some stills to be embedded within the video clips. The Premiere sequence is set to 1920x1080 (1.0) using high def footage.
The stills are all very large files, so I want to reduce them to something closer to the video size. Using Image Size I set the width to 1920 then the height comes out greater than 1080 but that should be no problem. When I play the movie in Premiere I can see that there is a noticeable difference in the size of the video image compared to the still image. The still has black bars on each side. I can zoom each still up to fill in the full frame, but that is not desirable.
So I tried an experiment in Photoshop CS5. Went to Open New and chose the film and video preset. Then I drew a nice big circle in the middle of the canvas with two smaller circles in opposing corners. Saved that as PSD with 1920x1080 square pixels. When I added that image to the video sequence it fit right in with the video images and there was no noticable size variation when the movie went from video to still to video. The circles I drew remained round and appeared just as desired, so I presume I got the aspect ratio right.
Then I opened another film and video preset and on this one I used the move tool to drag one of my still images over to the new canvas, saved with the correct attributes and added it to my sequence and it played perfect.
Now for my question. Is there a simpler process than what I described here to getting an image into the proper size and ratio to match my video settings? Dragging each image onto a new canvas with video presets is a bit time consuming and I'm sure there must be a simple way to accomplish what I need. I don't see a way to just apply the film and video preset attributes to an image that is already open in Photoshop.
Any ideas??
Thanks

Yeah, I'm having trouble putting the problem into words. You almost have to see it happening. If I was smarter about this stuff it would be easier to explain.
When I play the video clips in Premiere they look correct in the preview monitor. When the movie gets to the stills that are inserted between video clips there is a noticable difference in how the image "fits" into the preview monitor. It appears that the still image is not as wide as the video. The project and videos are set to 1920x1080 (1.0) so it seems to me that if I set the image size of a still to 1920 then the still should fill the same width as the video did.
Photoshop won't allow me the directly change the image size to exactly 1920x1080. When I set the width to 1920 the height automaticlly goes to 1235. And that image results in what I described above.
But if I create a new canvas using film and video presets I can set it to 1920x1080. Then if I use the move tool to drag my still image onto that new canvas I can save it with the exact same size as my videos. And when I do that it plays perfect in the video sequence as you can't see any difference in the appearance of the size of the still image compared to the video when they play as a movie.
So, what other method do I have available to get that same film and video present into a still image? Is it possible that it is simply a problem with the slight difference in the image size I get when using Image Resize? I haven't researched a way to unlink the H x W settings in that panel. If that's possible then perhaps that will give me an easier way to do this.
Did that make it any clearer??
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It is asking me for a cover image but I cannot see anything telling the required spec for this - on Amazon they tell you min and max dimensions and what the required dpi is but (unless I've missed a whole bunch of instrucitons somewhere!) I see no such info in the guide or in the iTunes connect screens.
Can someone please help me here? After googling I found these forum pages and saw that someone had said the cover image must be at least 600dpi and max height of 740 pixels - is that right? (odd as on Amazon you only need 72dpi!)
Just in case anyone can help here too - my ePub file already has the cover image included in it - do I therefore need to separetely add this standalone cover image?
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JPEG with “.jpg” extension (quality unconstrained) or PNG with “.png” extension
RGB (screen standard)
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Covers may not reference pricing, the physical edition, or include any other wording that may notnecessarily be true for the digital edition.
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Can you lock aspect ratio, define border and image size with automated BatchCropStraighten?

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paulsinyard wrote:
Does anybody know if this is possible using the automates BatchCropStraighten function?
I know of no BatchCropStraighten feature in Photoshop. Photoshop has a Plugin CropPhotosAuto that you access through menu File>Automate>Crop and Straighten Photos.
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I created a fake scan with five simulated images. Not straight and not all rectangles and duped the document so two would be open the used File>Automate>Crop and Straighten Photos when the process finished I spread out the document so you could see all that are open in this screen capture.

Need help changing size and aspect ratio for 500+ images

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Step 3 Align Layer s to selection horizontal center
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I'me looking to make an image gallery (c 40 images) to fill a complete landscape page in IBAuthor
I now need to get the images from the photographers.
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You post so little useful information. You video show you using a mac the the video setting look like 1080 yet the video does no fill my 1920 width but does fill the 1080 height. Your Mac launch icon look huge so you your 800x300 canvas looks small on you desktop so I'm guessing retina display with lots of pixels 4:3 aspect ratio. The ping posted here look bad because of the way this site scale images. if you open it in a new tab it looks great even when I click on it thus site html pop-up image display of the png looks good. I see no pixelation and the edges look sharp ans smooth.

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