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Tearing my hair out. - Stusamuso - 05-27-2024
Hi Guys, I hope you can help. I imported a KDP book template into Gimp 2.10.38. Sized my book front cover as 480px x 768px or 5" x 8". When I dragged and dropped the front cover PNG onto the template in Gimp it was way too small. How do I get the picture cover as a PNG format to fit the template?
RE: Tearing my hair out. - rich2005 - 05-27-2024
(05-27-2024, 09:28 AM)Stusamuso Wrote: Hi Guys, I hope you can help. I imported a KDP book template into Gimp 2.10.38. Sized my book front cover as 480px x 768px or 5" x 8". When I dragged and dropped the front cover PNG onto the template in Gimp it was way too small. How do I get the picture cover as a PNG format to fit the template?
Kindle want images with a resolution of 300 pixels-per-inch (ppi). That means starting again and making your image 1500 x 2400 pixels. Scaling up your existing artwork will not work, a 3 times scale will be blurred. (but you can try it).
Note: If there are any margins required, the image is correspondingly smaller (size in inches x 300 ppi = size in pixels)
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RE: Tearing my hair out. - Stusamuso - 05-27-2024
Holey Moley, Rich. That worked fine. Thanks for the advice. Onwards and upwards now. :-)