Book Covers

So, whenever an image is supposed to BLEED off the edge of the sheet, it needs to kiss the edge of the BLEED area. Notice in this simple example that the dog on the back cover has been dragged into the BLEED area both at the top and the side. Notice that the dog on the front cover has been dragged off into the bleed area only on the side. Back Cover Spine Front Cover ® ® 216 mm 313.4 mm BLEED AREA CUTE DOGS Pete Smith Cute Dogs by Pete Smith is a world best seller at airports and other places where people are so bored that they’ll read any old rubbish. £14.99 Cute Dogs by Peter Smith So, once you have laid out your cover correctly it looks like this.