How to create a fabric look to your cover
Create Cookbooks offers a great selection of fabric textures that you can add around part of the cover, spine and back.
However, because the minimum print run is 200 below provides an alternative way that will definitely give you the "look" of having a fabric texture instead.
Create Cookbooks has lots of fabric textures photos that you can choose from the Premium Photo library.
Open up your cover and click on the existing generic image and select REPLACE IMAGE from the symbol bar and UPLOAD FROM COMPUTER.
In this example, we are replacing the existing full-page image with a Lime Cheesecake from our Premium photo library.
Next, insert the look-a-like fabric texture by selecting INSERT from the menu and UPLOAD FROM COMPUTER. Select the image.
In this example, we have selected a green striped fabric textured image from our premium photo library. Push the image off the page.
Next, add a white transparent to the text box. Click the text box, select the paint bucket symbol as shown in the image, and click the colour white. Click the bucket symbol again and click Custom.
Next, move the transparency slider. The more you move the slider to the left the more transparency will be applied.
Next, highlight the fabric texture image and place it to the left of your cover. Double click the image so the black frame box appears. Hover and hold down on the middle black rectangle and reduce the size of the frame. To watch how this is done watch this video.
Click here to watch the video.
Next position the text on the cover where you prefer and have the text centred from the edge of the fabric texture image to the edge of the frame to the right.
To change the colour of the text, highlight and select the 'A' symbol and select a new colour. Alternatively, you can use the ColorPick Eyedropper. Click here to show you how to use the ColorPicker.
Add the custom colour of the text to better match the fabric and text. You can also add the fabric texture the same way to the back cover but place it on the right-hand side and also on the spine, so it looks like the fabric is partially wrapping around some of the front and over to the back cover.