Guidelines for Your Cover

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Cover Guidelines: 

 
Any text that you want on your cover should be within the purple safety zone. Any text outside the safety zone may be cut off.
 
If you have a background, it should be pulled all the way out to the red bleed line.
The blue lines in the center of the page represent your spine. If you would like to add text to your spine, add a text box to your page.  Once your text box is on the page, select it so the blue circles appear around it. 
 
Type the text that you want on the spine. Then, rotate the text box by clicking on the larger blue dot that is slightly extended from the text box and dragging the dot around to rotate the box. 
Rotate text Box

Rotate your school name so that the bottom of the title sits on the left side of the spine (shown below). This will ensure that the spine will exist in the proper direction on your cover.

School title

Pre-Designed Covers

If you do not want to spend a lot of time and energy designing your own cover, we have a library of Pre-Designed covers that you can choose from for your yearbook project. You can find these covers under the Background button.

Look for the category of Pre-Designed Covers, which will appear alphabetically under the list of background categories.

All Pre-Designed covers will automatically scale to the size of the cover that you have.

Background Button
pre designed covers categories

Submitting Your Cover for Production:

Go to your yearbook ladder, and at the top right of the page, click on the red Preview/Approve Cover button. From here, you can preview and approve your cover.

preview/approve cover

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4 Comments

  1. Kristina Satterfield

    I need a single page template to print to distribute to students for the cover design contest

    1. Nicole Lipnitz

      I recommend having the students design on 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper. Then scan it in for the front cover as an image and we can add a color or design border in EDOnline.

  2. Katelyn Czerwinski

    I had a student create our cover digitally. I know it needs to be uploaded as a .jpg (or of the sorts) but what is the specs for sizing that they can work with for digital content? Sizing as far as pixels (or whatever term is used for it) thank you!

    1. Nicole Lipnitz

      Just make sure it is 300 dpi and around 8.5 by 11 to ensure it fills the front cover or 11 by 17 for the whole cover. The cover designer can give you exact dimensions based on your yearbook page count and type, but those are good starting dimensions.

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