Book Margins and Formatting in Canva. Outside and Gutter Margins, Page Numbering, and More...
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20 Pages at 5x8” with white margins, based on books size between 150 and 300 pages, including one example of how to start the book. The big, bold words are only there to let you know what each page will be used for; it is up to you to put in the correct wording and fonts and remove the ones you don’t need.
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I have created this channel to help you succeed in self-publishing. If you like these videos, give them the thumbs up and subscribe. If you also have some helpful information, add it in the comments. Cheers. Steve.
Thank you for your this video. Just so frustrated. My book was still rejected. I've follow the instructions. Wish someone can look at book.
I was actually looking for a way to achieve mirrored margins in Canva. Great tips, many thanks.
You're very welcome 🤙
Hi! Came across your channel today, and I wanted to say thank you for your heart to serve other self-published authors. I know this takes a lot of time! Your information is so valuable and I just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you for your kind words, they’re much appreciated and I’m glad I could help. Steve. 🤙
This was INCREDIBLY helpful! I'm so glad I stumbled upon this video, and so grateful to you for taking the time to make it. I made a book as a gift to my parents, and this ensured that I didn't waste time and money with a poorly laid out initial attempt. Thank you for this video!
Hi Candace, I'm thrilled that you published a book for your parents and that I could help. Steve
Thank you so much for this video tutorial - it's the best/easiest on setting margins in Canva I have found so far!! Really appreciate it!!!
Thank you and wishing you the very best 👍
Brilliant technique! Thanks so much for sharing.
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thank you SOOOOO much. i've been so stressed about these margins and you broke it down and made it so simple to understand!!!
Thank you Caroline 🤙
Thank you very much 🙏 for explaining what the margins on Amazon KDP are 📚, and how to create a safe workspace in Canva 🖌. Greetings from a beginner publisher in Poland
Thank you. I'm happy my videos help. Steve.
Thank you so, so much for this wonderful video! It is very helpful and clear.
Thank you, glad it helped 🤙
thank you kindly! i would buy a course from you. you just saved me a ton of time!
Thank you, though I aim for my assistance to be free. No courses and no affiliate links 🤙 Glad I was able to assist.
Hi Stephen! This video solved my problem on understanding margins!! I am a super beginner so thank you so much!!w❤
You're welcome Tiana. Steve 🤙
Great video, Thank you for your guidance!
Thank you 🤙
Extremely helpful ❤ gratitude
Thank-you 🤙
Wow, you sir, are a magin book formatting Lord. Really appreciate your clear explanation on this topic.
Thank you 🤙
Thank you for the time spent on that S. Very interesting 👏🏼
You’re Welcome 🤙
Very informative. Thank you so much for creating it. Greatly appreciated.
You are welcome Nasim. Steve.
Thank you so much for this video!! You have saved my book
You are welcome 🤙 Steve
Oh that is so much smarter than what I'm trying to do!
Thank you Carolyn. You have a great looking channel 🤙
@@StevePeel Thank you so much!
really helpful. Thank you
Thank you 🤙
Thanks brother! very helpful information!
You’re welcome 🤙
The best tutorial on KDP DO YOU HAVE A VIDEO ON COVERS FOR KDP COLOURING BOOKS PLEASE? Sorry about the caps.
Sorry about the delay, I could have sworn I responded the other day, turns out I hadn't. Thank you, and regarding specific colouring book covers, unfortunately not. Steve
THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!
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Thanks!
Thank you very much, it's much appreciated, Candace. 🤙. Steve.
This is quite helpful. Thank you. So if I didn't want to delete the white margins, I would just need to choose white paper so it wouldn't show up, correct? Thanks!
Hi, in theory yes, you could leave the white borders. I have done this with success. But, it’s always important to order a copy as soon as the book is published so that you get to review it within just a couple of days. If you order a proof copy it would usually take much longer.
That way you can quickly make any alterations you need if you need to. It’s also important to click the Flatten box when downloading the PDF Print. You can see the option in the download settings. This will reduce shadow or outline of objects.
@@StevePeel This is immeasurably helpful. Thank you!
And what if I want to make it horizontally? Could you please tell me the measurements? Thank you!
Wherever your book has a gutter, that is the same gutter margin, and all the other margins remain the same as in the video. If your book opens from the top like a lift-up cover such as a calendar, then both left and right margins can be the same as the right margin in the video. You will only have one gutter margin, no matter which angle your book opens.
Okay, so I bought Canva today. Now its confusing the heck out of me, especially since going to Amazon. How do we use the templates you gave us? Gee you must think I am thick as 2 twigs. I do not know where to save the template, and I cant use it as there is just a white page, with two long lines and nothing to click to begin.
:) It's okay if you are looking at pages with lines on either side. They are the margins set out for your book. It's up to you to fill the gap between the lines with whatever you want in the book. I suggest going back over the videos on creating margins, as it show what to do with them too.
Steve
@@StevePeel I gathered that, except there was nothing to click to download it, so I could then upload it to Canva. (I told youI'm as thick as two planks) ...lol.. I did get one cover made today, from scratch, but dont know how to get rid of the pink edges under my pictures... HoHum eh..lol Thanks for all your help.
@JessieB_ :) If you’ve used a template and it’s under your background, send the background to the back then delete the template. Steve
Hi Stephen, I just test a cookbook with images for paperback on kdp, and the printing price was scary, what do you suggest I should do? Should reduce the no of images, or get some kind of formating
Unfortunately, the price of colour is high. But, I find people are prepared to pay a premium for a premium product.
Me personally, I stick to premium colour, but I keep the pages at between 90 and 110 pages at 8.5 x 11”. My royalties for a book like that would around $2.50.
Reducing the number of images will not make any difference. Steve
Great video! When I did my book, Amazon required me to add an additional .125 outside my 6*9 format. Did you need that with yours? I already had the margins in the file...
Hi Wilda, you caught me at the computer. The only times I have been required to add bleed to a 6x9 manuscript (0.125 on the width / 0.250 on the height) is when I have gone outside the margins designed for no-bleed. I might have gone outside with an image on the inside title page or in other parts of the book, signalling Amazon to issue the rejection. Steve
@@StevePeel Thanks! My book is with bleed because of photos but I dont get how to adjust the page width to accomodate for the gutter being different on right hand vs left hand page. Or would it suffice to increase "the gutter box" with 0.125 inches? Thanks again 🙏😍
Unfortunately it’s the page size as whole that requires resizing, top and bottom. You could try just adjusting the bottom and see what happens, but I would be surprised. Steve
i have gone back several times to adjust the font to fit inside the margins but when I upload the manuscript, I keep getting the same error about text being outside of the margins and the gutters being incorrect. what could cause that? could u glance at my pdf file and tell me the problem please
Depending on how thick your book is, depends on how wide the margins need to be. First, view your book in the Previewer, so launch Previewer and flick through the pages. If your text touches the dotted lines, you need to adjust your borders to compensate. The previewer is the best judge of that. If you have done that, and all looks good, send me a compressed copy of your PDF so I can receive it in an email. I will delete it once I have viewed it. Steve. stevejohnpeel@yahoo.co.uk
@@StevePeel thank you so much! Sending now
Thanks for this video, I have been trying to figure this out on Canva on my own. So when centering graphics on the page do I center my graphics inside of the white area or the whole page? I feel like it should be inside the white area but want to double check.
Thank you. The “white area” - or the area inside the new margins - is the area you need to centre graphics, chapter titles, headings and even page numbers if you want them centred. The “white area” is your canvas 🤙
@@StevePeel Thank you! I thought so but wanted to be sure.
Hi Stephen this is such an excellent video - thank you so much - I have a question maybe you can help with. I'm joining my PDFs but because my book has many photos, the pdf's are too large to upload to the joiner - how do I get around this?
Hi Lynette and thank you. This is often a problem when joining large file-sized PDFs, especially free online apps. It would help if you didn’t compress your PDF to do this, as quality will be lost, as you seem to be already aware of. Breaking the PDF files down to even smaller ones doesn't help either, because the result is a large file many apps can't handle.
I use ilovepdf.com, which you can use for free within reason online, so that might be worth a try. I have the full version of that app.
pdfmodifiy.com claims to be able to join large PDFs for free, but I haven't tried it.
Just out of curiosity, as a result of your message, I attempted to join two copies of one of my books in iLovePDF free. Each consisted of 220 pages, including 70 colour photographs. The file downloaded quickly and perfectly. So that was 440 pages and 140 photos. Unfortunately, that was the maximum I could upload in the free version, as it states it has a limit of 100MB per task, which is strange that it let me upload 112MB. In the full version of iLovePdf, users can process up to 4GB per task, it states, so I tried it.
I uploaded 5 copies of the book into the full version on my computer, and it merged them in seconds. So that was 1100 pages and 350 photographs.
I'm not trying to sell you iLovePDF, and I am not affiliated with it in any way, but in future, if you are looking for a new PDF reader and editor, you can't go wrong with it. That said, in the meantime, I can suggest that you keep searching and trying the free online PDF mergers until you find one that works and retains the high quality of your images.
Steve
@@StevePeel I honestly cannot thank you enough...I'll try this...I will let you know, I value your answer more than you know!
ok it's worked! I'm just downloading the merged file now - I did have to sign up to pay because it was too large to do it for free, but it was £2.50! so....thanks again for this awesome advice - now I just have to hope I have my margins right and Amazon accepts it ok - your video was absolutely and very empowering
That’s great. Keep me up to date. 🤙
Hi, Can it work on Picture book too?
Yes of course. When creating your inside margins, presuming you are working with single pages and not double-page spreads where you won't require inside margins, consider your margins when allowing children to open the book flat.
@@StevePeel thanks man ❤️
Sir pls what of the one with bleed which is 0.375 how do I get the outside margin confess
Go for 0.400. It’s a slightly wider margin but hit will save you trouble. .4 top, bottom, and outside. .5 gutter.
@@StevePeel sir pls I had tried all I could but it isn't working before it was the inside margin which I settled now is the outside margins am having problems with pls can u do a video of 24 to 150 pages using bleed. Sir am begging u in the name of God in the aspects of using canva because that is the software am using on my system pls sir.
I’ll see what I can do for you Kingsley. In the meantime you should take a look at a video I uploaded a few days ago, all about a book up to and around 150 pages. This should be just what you need: th-cam.com/video/7RCEyTRnbjM/w-d-xo.html
When you have hundreds of pages, it isn't fun deleting your black boxes from every page, one by one.
No, that’s why it’s a good idea to do so many pages at a time then copy them and join then all later in your PDF. I would go crazy if I had to do each one for hundreds of pages.
Right.. but you can try using the guides and ruler on canva to set the margins. I feel it’s more convenient since guides won’t appear when u save the file. No more deletion!
Yes that’s true, however, some would find it harder to set, header and footer, gutter and outside margin, numbering stop, then the alternate page and so on, all using guides and ruler. I supposed it’s whatever suits.