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KDP Cover Creator with your own cover image: what Amazon's help page says about checks and…
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What this guide covers
For self-publishing authors and designers preparing their own cover art for the KDP Cover Creator tool. It gives a checklist of the upload checks, warning and blocker types and layout lines as the help page words them. Based on one help page read on 2026-11-05, not run, and the page changes.
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KDP Cover Creator with your own cover image: what Amazon's help page says about checks and warnings
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For self-publishing authors and designers preparing their own cover art for the KDP Cover Creator tool. It gives a checklist of the upload checks, warning and blocker types and layout lines as the help page words them. Based on one help page read on 2026-11-05, not run, and the page changes.
Useful starting points
- Let the interior file finish processing before opening the tool, because spine width depends on the page count.
- A low-resolution image below 300 DPI is a warning you can proceed past; an unreplaced placeholder cover image blocks you.
- Keep all text inside the red dotted margin line; the white dotted line marks the trim.
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