Photo size on Book Cover

I've created a collage to place on the front cover of my book. It is a JPG file about 6700 pixels wide and 768 px high. When I drop it onto the front cover, it shows only a small fraction of the photo and there is no way to "shrink" the photo.
How can I display the entire 6700 x 768 px photo on the cover of my book?

Found the problem. I had selected a textbox instead of the photo, thus no zoom capability. Once I had properly selected the photo, it worked properly.

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I have some large photos (2990 x 1451)that get seriously cropped in iphoto - the slider for the zoom is on the left stopping me from seeing the whole pictures. What is the best way around this please??

iPhoto is designed around point and shoot cameras and the standard for them is a photo in a 4:3 ratio. any photo that is not 4:3 will be cropped to fit the 4:3 frame.
You can right click on the photo and select "fit to frame" to use white fill rather than cropping.
You can pre-crop to 4:3 so you totally control the crop
You can use the zoom and position feature to position the photo so the 4;3 portion is what you want
(2990 x 1451) is like 6.2:3 - a very strange sized photo

IPhoto 11 - book cover photo issue

Hello all,
I am working on a book in iPhoto 11. I first started the project way back in 2009 on my old iMac. Created 3 books for my kids about our family trip that summer. The books are 80 pages, with photos (duh) and a lot of text. A LOT of text. I transcribed the journal we kept while on the trip and used their photos for their books. They all came out beautifully. The amount of text is important here. . .
Then my old iMac started to die, and I put off creating MY copy of the book. Flash forward to now, and I have a brand new iMac and I've moved all of my photo libraries to this shiny new Mac and I'm ready to finish my book.
Everything seems to be fine except for one thing. Whatever photo I add to the cover, it never shows up. There is a checkmark next to the photo, indicating that it's been used, but it's not visible. There is no problem with photos on pages. They all work just fine. (And a big HALELEUJAH! for iPhoto now allowing me to insert pages in the middle of the book - have wanted this since 2009)
I tried doing a preview as pdf - with no photos inserted except for the cover, and still saw nothing.
I really, really don't want to change themes and then come back. I do still have the journal as a Word doc, but the thought of recreating this huge book is not something I want to tackle if I don't have to.
Thanks for any ideas and help.

I might have just solved this myself. It was simple, of course.
I selected a different layout for the cover. The photo appeared. I went back to the original layout. The photo and caption both appeared.
Yay!

Iphoto not displaying front cover photos in my book project

After installing iphoto 11 the front cover page in my book project will not display the photos or the text, how ever the text will display if clicked on and then only 1 line at a time. The photos on the other hand will not. When the photo boxes are clicked on, the border will highlight and the photo in the thumbnail list will be outline and the word "COVER" will appear when the curser is over the photo. The back cover is fine.
When the book is previewed the front cover is blank just as it appears in the working process.
Is there a fix for this? If the book is ordered will the photos magically in the hard copy?
Bob

Be sure to preview the book as described in this Apple document before ordering: iPhoto, Aperture: Previewing an order in iPhoto or Aperture. If the PDF file is has no errors continue and order. Save the PDF file that is created for comparing to the printed copy when it arrives.
OT

Quality of Photo on Book Cover Poor

I just received my book created in iPhoto '08. I am very happy with the quality of the photos in the book. Nearly what I see on the monitor. However, the quality of the cover is poor. The pictures on the front, back, and insets are dark, muddy, and off color. Has anyone else experience this? This is disappointing because the front photo is exciting, colorful, and I was hoping would make a person want to pick the book up and look at it. Has anyone had them redo the cover? Thanks for your help.

BS"D
Just came home to find the identical issue with my dust cover, also created with iPhoto '08 and just ordered/received a few days ago. I completely agree that the dust cover is a critical part of the success of this photobook. My prior order was with Blurb and was superb, and THE reason I used them was because they had a dust cover at the time and Apple did not offer that. Now taht Apple offered a dust cover I tried them as I wanted to give Apple the business. The same exact photo is used IN the book and is perfect, but on the cover it is exceedingly dark and another photo on the inner back sleeve of the dust cover is literally unrecognizably dark.
I have written in to customer support at Apple this evening regarding this and have requested that the dust cover be reprinted with the correct exposure as used within the book itself. Hope to hear from them shortly.
ekanal - Monday, September 10, 2007; 9:55 PM

IPhoto book - How to ensure if photo size is enough ?

How to ensure if photo size is enough for the XL size I select? It appers good on the preview, does it confirm it will turn out to be same when printed out? Thanks!

If you do not have am image size warning and you preview your book it will be fine -
Before ordering your book preview it using this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
LN

Photo sizes when using Medium Book

Hello all, I am trying to create the 8x6 book. I have jpegs that we have created in Photoshop, that are 300 DPI and are 8x6 in size. They are also set to RGB. For some reason when we start with an 8x6 book and try to place the jpeg into the book it scales it up way too big. And when you double-click on the page to try and make it smaller with the scaler tool, it won't go any smaller.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this?
The theme we chose was Modern Lines. Late breaking news.....it has just been brought to my attention that the other themes work fine. But I would still like to know why the Modern theme doesn't work.
Thanks for the help.

Sarno:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I have jpegs that we have created in Photoshop, that are 300 DPI and are 8x6 in size. They are also set to RGB. For some reason when we start with an 8x6 book and try to place the jpeg into the book it scales it up way too big.
In Photoshop when you crop to 8 x 6 go into the File->File size menu and make sure it's set to 8 x 6. Sometimes it'll be larger but in the same ratio.
One possible solution is to Control-click on your photo in the book and select the Fit Photo to Frame Size option. See if that won't work. Or you can try a re -crop in iPhoto to the 4:3 ratio constrain. Doing so may then allow the photo to scale properly to the frame. Good luck.

I cannot change the cover photo on a book I am creating??????

I cannot change the cover photo on a book I am Creating????????

Well I did do it right.... I did drag the photo that I wanted to be the cover photo to the cover and it would not stay there. Other photos drag where you want them.
What I exactly want to do it change the book cover photo. The program for making a book sorts the photos where it feels they best fit. How it decided on a cover photo I do NOT know. I do not get any ERROR messages. I simply cannot find a way to change the book cover photo.
If you are unable to assist someone then do not nail them for not giving enough information. I was asking for help not to be treated like an idiot. Your comments were no help. Whatsoever!!! J

How to add a title to the book cover/spine?

Hi,
appears to be a stupid question, but I couldn't find any answer in the Videos by JK o any other help page:
How can I add a title to he book cover and the spine of a blurb-book made in LR5?
I could not find any cover template having a title (only a lot of text).
Thanks a lot in advance,
schleifi

I have worked with Booksmart and made one book successfully. I have also made a book in Lr 5.2 and had it printed by Blurb to my satisfaction.
Compared to creating a book in Lr the workflow in Booksmart is cumbersome and slow.
(1) During the creation of a book in Lr I test the book often by exporting it as a PDF. This option is only available when you select PDF instead of Blurb - but it is possible to switch between PDF and Blurb without harm. The only change is that the Blurb logo page disappears when PDF is selected. Viewing the PDF in Acrobat tells me what the book will look like in print since my monitor is calibrated and set to the correct intensity (brightness). It also tells me if my sharpening is good. For the export to PDF I select 100 for quality; color profile sRGB; file resolution 300; sharpening High; media type glossy.
A Blurb representative told me that these settings come close to the settings that Lr uses when the book is uploaded to Blurb.
In Booksmart I can't export to PDF.
BTW you should sharpen the image so much that it looks a bit too sharp in your PDF. When the boook is printed the ink droplets spread out a tiny bit before they dry. This tends to make the print softer than it looks on screen.
(2) Booksmart is not color managed. Therefore in Booksmart you have no feedback how your book will look in print. If you want to test your images you have to softproof them in Photoshop.
(3) When I make a book I find often that my develop adjustments are not optimal. In Lr it is very easy to switch the the Develop Module, make the necessary adjustments and switch back to the Book Module. With Booksmart you have to export the adjusted image again - or it has to be re-published if you use the Blurb plug-in.
(4) In the past I have made complaints that Lr does not give enough flexibility for the layout. Since then I have worked more in Lr and I find the Book Module actually quite good.
I find that the full page bleed allows the most flexibility for creating my own layout. Starting with a full page bleed I use the padding feature to place the image anywhere on the page and in any size I want. The boxes for "Page Text" and "Photo Text" allow for more than one column. The text can be edited by adjusting Tracking (all letters are spaced wider/closer), Kerning (individual pairs of letters can be spaced), Baseline (letters can be pushed up or down), or Leading (the distance between different lines of text can be adjusted). There are no such features in Booksmart.
(5) Selecting a color for page background or for text is cumbersome in Booksmart. In Lr it's easy.
The cover of my first book in Lr looks like this:

Attaching a thumbnail to a book cover for my eBook

My gear: Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit.
My objective: Attach a thumbnail version of my eBook cover to my eBook book cover, so the Adobe Digital Edition version will look cool.
What I've done: With distiller set to eBooks, I've created the PDF book cover and the thumbnail, using Ifan and OpenOffice.
Result: I'm stuck. My cover is in PDF/A mode. I can't attach.
You probably already can tell I'm a noob. However, what I have done to solve this problem, follows:
1.I closed Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard.
2.Opened my Window folder, so I'd have my PDF thumb and PDF full size cover before me. I minimized this window.
3.I opened my beloved Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard.
4.I selected File>Combine>Assemble. I got a blank screen. It says 'Home/ in the upper left hand corner. I call this Window A. I size Window A so it fits the left hand side of the desktop.
5.I brought up the minimized window. I call it Window B. I sized Window B to it fits the right hand side of my desktop.
6.I dragged my PDF book cover file, still in PDF/A mode, from Window B, to Window A.
7.In Window A: I selected File>Combine>Merge Files. I'm 'merging' a single file into a single PDF.
8. A window appears. It says: File Portfolio1.pdf is a PDF portfolio that contains multiple files. The files within the PDF portfolio have been added to the file list. I clicked OK.
9.Now I'm in a window titled Combine Files. Single PDF is selected. A red X is in the Remove square, bottom of this window. My PDF/A book cover file is the only file in the list.
10.I selected my file just to highlight it.
11.I selected Combine Files.
12.A save as window opens. I renamed my book cover to Book Cover not in PDF A mode
13.Now, my non-PDF/A Book cover opens in Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard.
14.In the lower left hand corner of my Adobe 9 window, I right click the comments icon, and select Attachments.
15.I select Add a new attachment.
16.My PDF files come up (they would not come up in PDF/A mode), and I select my thumbnail PDF. It attaches.
17.Yay. I'm done.
If there's a quicky professional way to do this, please add to this thread, so I may learn from my mistakes.

Hellow Johannes,
thank you for your repling.
i don"t think that this is the direction.
In lots of objects in the SAP like a notification or a material,a button call "service for object" is available provide
some functions like
document attaching.
How i can see this attachments?
I think that the answer should be close to the table SOOD.
regards,
avi

Many times I drop a photo into a book page box and it resizes it. I want to scale it smaller but it only allows me to make it bigger. Why can't I slide to make it smaller?

many times I drop a photo into a book page box and it resizes it. I want to scale it smaller but it only allows me to make it bigger. Why can't I slide to make it smaller?

Control (right) - click on the photo in the frame and select Fit to Frame Size in the contextual menu.
Here's an extreme example of that:
OT

Photo size and uploading to Apple

I'm in the process of making a quite large iPhoto book for my SIL for her b'day. The photos are a compiltion from many of mine, and others sent to me by family members. They are all different sizes, resolution, color and B/W.
After getting them organized, doing a bit of fixing on PS, I now am ready to get them into iPhoto.
Is it wise to take them all into Lightroom where I can do an easy batch change of the resolution? I have read where they should be around 300. It is easy to change them and the test prints I did at home looked ok, even on the small ones that aren't too big to start with. On the export menu of Lightroom, I have the option of stating whether I want them to be exported at JPG, Tiff etc., and I can change the resolution and photo size too.
I probably would export them as JPG, 300 res. and not change their size. Is this ok for the iPhoto books?
Also, if they are of a higher resolution, I assume it will take quite a while to upload them to Apple even with high speed fiberoptic cable internet service.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks, Allie

Allie:
DO NO USE Lightroom as it messes up the metadata and makes the files not useable in iPhoto. You do not have to preprocess the files to set the dpi to 300 specifically. The only important feature of the file is the pixel dimensions. If the pixel dimensions are large enough as you state you can leave them as is. iPhoto will fit them into the frame you choose and the dpi will be determined that way. No matter what size the files are the book is converted into a pdf file for uploading and printing. My last book of nearly 100 pages came in at approx. 25MB.
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.

What are the pixel dimensions for creating an Apple ibook book cover?

I'm trying to create a book cover for Apple ibooks, what are the pixel dimensions requirements?

Thanks again.
Apple seems to have made it more confusing than it should be.
As an aside, the Apple documentation contradicts itself.
Cover art (also known as a marketing image or jacket) should be at least 1400 pixels along the smaller axis and must be a JPEG or PNG file in RGB Color mode.
This clearly says the shorter side must be at least 1400 pixels. The next sentence says this:
For an average trade paperback, this could be 400 x 1400 minimum size, as the books are generally taller than they are wide.
That doesn't make sense, seeing that the shorter side is supposed to be at least 1400 pixels, meaning it should say "1400 x 4900" for the same aspect ratio.
...I did notice this too.
So, if as you say, that the Cover Art and Cover image terms are the same and the 2 million limit does not apply, then it is unclear to me why Apple sent this message to me about cover file being rejected
"Action Required: Your book could not be delivered to the iBookstore.
The following images are larger than two million pixels and must be resized:
Full ePub: Cover_xyz.jpg "
I'll probably need to have the cover file in epub and Cover Image for Asset in iTunes Producer be named differently (but be copies of the same file) so I can understand which one is the "problem" file.
And finally, why does Apple refer to Cover Art twice here and then end in last sentence with Cover Image if they are the same ( and if they are the same why not state "this cover image").
"Cover art (also known as a marketing image or jacket) should be at least 1400 pixels along the smaller axis and must be a JPEG or PNG file in RGB Color mode. For an average trade paperback, this could be 400 x 1400 minimum size, as the books are generally taller than they are wide. For best results, deliver the largest pixel dimensions possible. When possible, match cover art to the cover contained in the book file. The 2 million pixel maximum does not apply to the cover image".

Why I can't use a photo on the back cover in

why I can't use a photo on the back cover in

I'm assuming you're referring to the back cover of a book in iPhoto. The reason is non of the themes have a photo on the back cover. Some have a small photo on the back of the dust jacket. Go to the back cover, click on it and check out the various layouts available.
In the future include full sentences and specific information about what you're trying to accomplish, what versions of software you're using, etc. so we don't have to guess.
OT

Is there a step-by-step instruction on How to Prepare a Book Cover?

Is there a step-by-step instruction on How to Prepare a Book Cover?

f peter,
Maybe, but it depends on the method of binding. Presuming a soft cover from back (flap) over spine to front (flap), corresponding to a normal section sewing or normal glued paperback, at least the following steps apply:
1) Determination of the size of the front/back cover, corresponding to the paper size used for the (text) block (with the addition of the spine thickness); for books with flaps also the width of the flaps (remember to add at least some 2 mm to the width of the front/back cover to get a grip, you may get the feeling by looking a a few books with flaps);
2) Determination of the the width of the spine: this is determined by the width of the (text) block (with the addition of twice the cover thickness) which again depends on the page number (including possible blank pages) and the paper stock; normally, the printer/binder will tell you;
3) General layout with final cut size, (outside that) bleed, marks for cutting (which in some applications/versions are termed crop marks) and folding, registration marks, and possibly other printer's marks (you may find that in the Helpfile of the application; marks for folding are probably not included); especially in connexion with a high quality book, a crease for reverse folding some 7 mm from the folds at the spine may preserve the contact between front/back cover and spine/block (this is the first defense line against a battered look and tearing off the cover);
4) Creation and positioning of the artwork; remember that the folds break the artwork into separate parts viewed separately/at different angles, and avoid crucial parts close to the folds which should form transitions or be empty (with just the background colour).
As it appears from 2), you will have to talk to the printer/binder in any case. Get as much information as you can get about what they need/want.
And remember prepress proofing.
Obviously, there is much more to say.

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