Shutterfly cover size - HELP please

[~sill~]

Hi all, I've just finished an album and have uploaded it to shutterfly and everything is perfect except the cover. I've chosen an 8x8 hard cover book, used the 'print your digital....' option for the layouts, all pages are 12x12 so there are no size issues but the cover seems to want to crop at a different proportion. My lovely 12x12 cover (which should resize perfectly to 8x8) is all trimmed. I can't move the 'crop box' squares out either as it's a preset size. I can't find anywhere any details of dimension/ratio size changes.... what's going on?

Has anyone else had this problem and if so - how do you get around it. If not - why is it just ME???!!!

PS - I also had a prob with it in another size (8 x 11 - when it's all been designed and uploaded at that size) - cover is cropping at a seemingly different aspect ratio).

TIA for your help!

[dugarner]

Yes, I've tried that, and it doesn't work because the casewrap (where they wrap the paper over the cover) doesn't translate to an exact ratio, I don't think.

So when I do an 8X8 book, I use the 12X12 layouts and they work great, but for the front and back cover and spine, I use Shutterfly's digital scrapbook templates.

Shutterfly | Print Your Digital Scrapbook | Design Specs and Templates

Go to that link and scroll down to 8X8, download their templates and use their cover templates. It will have a blue guideline that will show you where the paper will fold, but give yourself another 1/2" inside the blue line. If you put something right against the guideline, it will be folded over on the cover. Also, it's counterintuitive, but you don't want to center edge to edge, you want to center edge to blue guideline, since that's what will be showing.

The 8X8 covers are actually something like 9.7 X 8.8 inches, to account for the wrap of the paper.

Does that help?

Sarah

[~sill~]

Oh Sarah - thank you SO much - it works - finally - yay!! These little things are very well hidden - I did searches in the help and FAQs and nothing - thank God for knowledge bases right?!!

Thanks again - I'm uploading it now so I'll post the link in the links section.

[Jaime Guffey]

I was having this same problem! Thanks for posting ladies!!

[ValerieP]

Thanks-I had that same problem with mine-I just settled-now I can really control those covers!

[carollee]

I always use the template for the covers and the spine.