{"id":4799,"date":"2025-09-17T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:27:18","slug":"how-to-use-the-cover-arranger-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2025\/09\/how-to-use-the-cover-arranger-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro Tip: Use The Cover Arranger Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have full creative control on your cover text and photo layouts with the Cover Arranger Tool.\u00a0 Go to Layout & Design>Select Cover.\u00a0 You’ll see a link\/button for “Custom Cover Arranger Tool.”<\/p>\n

You will see your cover as it will look in your printed book, sized according to your settings on a layout screen.\u00a0 You can edit your title and subtitle text, fonts and location.\u00a0 On the right side of the screen, select the cover item to “edit” in the drop down box.\u00a0 You can move them around and resize them any way you’d like.\u00a0 If you want your photos to retain their correct aspect ratio, check the little box on each photo’s lower left.\u00a0 They can also be layered one on top of another.\u00a0 You’ll see that when moving a photo, it automatically comes to the top\/front of all others.\u00a0 When done, click the “Save” button.<\/p>\n

You can also manage your cover photo settings on the right.\u00a0 In the select box, choose “Picture”.\u00a0 Click [Edit Photo] to set things like border style and color-B\/W.\u00a0 Those will be added normally in your printed book on the photos.<\/p>\n

If you wish to reset your cover text and photos to the default, check the boxes next to the Save button and click Save.<\/p>\n

We have a How-To video for this tool.\u00a0\u00a0Click here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the<\/span><\/i> Family Cookbook Project<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the leading online cookbook publisher with a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed custom cookbooks. He is the author of The<\/span><\/i> Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> and the<\/span><\/i> Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it\u2019s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600’s.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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You have full creative control on your cover text and photo layouts with the Cover Arranger Tool.\u00a0 Go to Layout & Design>Select Cover.\u00a0 You’ll see a link\/button for “Custom Cover Arranger Tool.” You will see your cover as it will look in your printed book, sized according to your settings on a layout screen.\u00a0 You …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-tips","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}