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Post by potet on Nov 8, 2020 16:14:48 GMT
This might help people like me who want to recycle an existing full cover for a new edition. It took me some time to discover the solution. So here it is. Provided you keep the same ISBN, if you want to use your previous cover, and adapt it to the new dimensions due to an increase in the number of pages, go right to the end of your project before doing anything else, and download the files archived by Lulu under "Source files". It's a ZIP that contains both your previous text and your previous cover. Return to the beginning of your project. Upload your new text. Download the template for your new cover. Paste the old cover on this new template, and adjust it with Photoshop > Image > Transform > Free Transform, or the equivalent in your picture processor. My Lulu version is in French, but I suppose the wording in English is about the same, and that you have "source files" where I have "fichiers source". [red arrow by yours truly]  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 2:27:23 GMT
This might help people like me who want to recycle an existing full cover for a new edition. It took me some time to discover the solution. So here it is. Provided you keep the same ISBN, if you want to use your previous cover, and adapt it to the new dimensions due to an increase in the number of pages, go right to the end of your project before doing anything else, and download the files archived by Lulu under "Source files". It's a ZIP that contains both your previous text and your previous cover. Return to the beginning of your project. Upload your new text. Download the template for your new cover. Paste the old cover on this new template, and adjust it with Photoshop > Image > Transform > Free Transform, or the equivalent in your picture processor. My Lulu version is in French, but I suppose the wording in English is about the same, and that you have "source files" where I have "fichiers source". [red arrow by yours truly] View Attachment[br t_____ Can we see the very final result with the template. It might save you a proof. |
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Post by potet on Nov 9, 2020 10:28:08 GMT
[br t_____ Can we see the very final result with the template. It might save you a proof. Here you are:  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 17:00:34 GMT
[br t_____ Can we see the very final result with the template. It might save you a proof. Here you are: View AttachmentIt looks great. Did lulu place the barcode and their logo that distance from the bottom edge or was it you? |
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Post by potet on Nov 9, 2020 19:07:50 GMT
It looks great. Did lulu place the barcode and their logo that distance from the bottom edge or was it you? I kept the original position of the barcode. Let me measure the ISBN rectangle in another book just at hand. length: 6.1cm X width: 2.5cm distance of the ISBN rectangle from the right margin of the cover: 0.6cm the bottom edge: 0.7cm |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 20:09:33 GMT
It looks great. Did lulu place the barcode and their logo that distance from the bottom edge or was it you? I kept the original position of the barcode. Let me measure of the ISBN rectangle in another book just at hand. length: 6.1cm X width: 2.5cm distance of the ISBN rectangle from the right margin of the cover: 0.6cm the bottom edge: 0.7cm Hmm... maybe things have changed but in the past the printer cropped the outer .25 of an inch off the edges. .125, top, bottom, left, right. I think that's more than 6cm. It looks tight. |
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Post by potet on Nov 9, 2020 22:52:33 GMT
Maggie, it's 0.6cm not *6cm. Whatever, I'll measure it again when I receive the copy of "L'onirothèque de Quentin Cumber, Volume 3".  |
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Post by applix on Nov 10, 2020 2:07:03 GMT
Would you happen to know how to have www.lulu.com and the book's ID number printed on the back cover ? It used to be a simple click while making the cover.
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Post by potet on Nov 10, 2020 11:10:36 GMT
Would you happen to know how to have www.lulu.com and the book's ID number printed on the back cover ? It used to be a simple click while making the cover.
Lulu no longer prints the Lulu book number on the back cover. Now they only supply the ISBN and its code, that you have to paste yourself on the template of the cover. If you want to have the Lulu book number on the back cover, you have to write it yourself there with a picture processor. |
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Post by applix on Nov 10, 2020 14:17:46 GMT
Thanks
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Post by potet on Nov 14, 2020 13:53:27 GMT
Can we see the very final result with the template. It might save you a proof. I received the printed copy today (2020-11-14). As you can see, it is not quite satisfactory because there is a light-blue line at the bottom, and the title is too close to the upper edge on the spine. I'll have to re-adjust it to the template.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2020 15:38:23 GMT
Can we see the very final result with the template. It might save you a proof. I received the printed copy today (2020-11-14). As you can see, it is not quite satisfactory because there is a light-blue line at the bottom, and the title is too close to the upper edge on the spine. I'll have to re-adjust it to the template. View AttachmentThat's dreadful. No, not satisfactory. You have to stretch the cover to go over their guidelines. All of them. If you do this your barcode and logo will be too close to the edge so move them up. |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Nov 14, 2020 15:47:30 GMT
Aaaarrrrghhhh...  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 9:53:56 GMT
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Post by potet on Nov 17, 2020 22:42:39 GMT
I received several of my Lulu books today (2020-11-17). I noticed that whenever I filled the outer margin with the background colour of the whole cover, the result was perfect. Conversely if I left the outer margins as they were, there is always that pesky light blue line at the bottom or the top or both of the printed cover. In brief when your cover is finished, fill all the rest with your background colour.
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