![]() Your results may vary, depending on which version of Gimp you use, and your particular habits. Based on my experiments, I have several pieces of advice – really just superstitious behaviors – that seem to avoid the problem. I’ve sometimes found the exported PDF, when imported back into Gimp, is one pixel narrower than required: for example, 3550 pixels instead of 3551 pixels. png files and export the resulting covers to PDF files. These instructions assume you have already downloaded your CreateSpace cover template file. What follows is the process I prefer for getting the basic image ready to edit. ![]() You can find plenty of advice on how to compose the image of yourbook cover in Gimp by searching the net for “Createspace cover Gimp” or such. I prefer Gimp because I prefer open source applications to proprietary applications, and because I’m not a professional graphic artist I don’t feel I’d benefit from Photoshop’s more powerful features. Gimp is an open source image editing application, with many features similar to those of Adobe Photoshop. If you instead use Adobe Photoshop, you will find the operations similar, but the details will be different from what I describe here. This page describes how to create the cover for a book you will distribute through CreateSpace, using the image editor Gimp.
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