Export and repurpose covers

Open the export tools#

Select the download icon on a cover card for the high-resolution eBook file. For every other format, open the card's More menu (the three dots). On a phone, tap the cover and choose Download or More.

The More menu holds these formats:

• Print wrap (the full wrap cover)
• Text-free cover
• Advanced export
• Audiobook cover
• Marketing resources
• Launch Kit

Availability depends on your plan. Formats your plan does not include show a Pro badge.

High-resolution eBook cover#

Select the download icon on the card (Download high-res) to prepare and download a publishing-ready JPG. If an upscaled version already exists, BeYourCover reuses it.

Free and Basic access can use download credits and may ask you to confirm the charge before upscaling. Pro and Enterprise include unlimited high-resolution downloads. Without Pro, Enterprise, or a remaining download credit for that book, high-resolution upscale does not run. An Enterprise workspace needs at least one credit in its balance to start the first high-res download of a cover, although the download itself uses no credit.

What happens without a download credit depends on the plan:

• Free: the card download always opens the Single Download window. You can buy a one-time Single Download ($15 / €15) that adds one download credit for the current book, or upgrade your plan from the same window.
• Basic: the high-res download opens the plan window. The Single Download offer shows on the text-free download.

The downloaded filename includes the book title and output type where possible.

A version you made with Edit title & author or Restyle typography has its own text in the image. It gets its own upscale and downloads your edited design, not the cover you started from.

Advanced export#

Choose Advanced export when you need a specific pixel size, a PNG, or a 2:3 cover. The standard high-res download always writes a 5:8 JPG at the size the upscaler produced. Advanced export writes the same cover at a size, shape and format you choose.

Advanced export is a Pro feature. Pro and Enterprise accounts can use it on any cover. Free and Basic accounts see the upgrade window instead.

The standard Download high-res download is unchanged: Basic accounts still use one download credit for it, and Pro and Enterprise still download without a limit.

The first advanced export of a cover runs the AI upscaler once to build a high-resolution master, around 3200 x 5120 px. Every export after that — any size, any format, as many as you like — is made from that master and costs nothing extra. Sizes up to the master come from real detail rather than from stretching the file.

File format

• JPG — smaller file, written at 95% quality. What most stores and print services expect.
• PNG — lossless and larger. Best when a designer will edit the file.

Shape

• Original (5 : 8) — your cover as generated. This is the shape KDP asks for in an eBook cover.
• 2 : 3 — for a 6" x 9" book, and for stores that ask for a 2:3 cover such as a 1600 x 2400 px file. The artwork is widened at both sides; nothing is cropped.

Resolution has three modes:

• Original — every pixel of the prepared file, with no resampling.
• Pixels — width and height in pixels.
• Print size — width and height in inches, with a DPI. For a 6" x 9" front panel with KDP's 0.125" bleed, enter 6.125" at 300 DPI to get 1838 px wide.

In both size modes the width and height are linked, shown side by side with a lock between them and the shape's ratio (5 : 8, or 2 : 3). Type in whichever one you know and the other follows. You cannot set them independently, because the export never stretches or crops your artwork.

Resolution tag (DPI) is written into the file, so Photoshop, InDesign, and print services place it at the right physical size. On its own it does not change the pixels. The window shows the exact output size and the physical size it prints to before you export.

The filename contains the pixel size, so two exports of the same cover do not overwrite each other.

Limits worth knowing#

• The master is about 3200 x 5120 px. Up to that width your export is a downscale of real detail, which is the sharpest result available.
• Ask for more than the master's width and the file is resampled. The DPI tag does not drop — the print size grows instead, so the file carries less real detail per inch than its tag says. The window shows the DPI of actual detail whenever it applies.
• More pixels are not more detail. Resampling past the master interpolates; it does not run the upscaler again.
• There is a maximum resolution, which depends on the shape — about 3238 x 5181 px for a standard cover and about 3344 x 5016 px at 2 : 3. Ask for more and the window tells you the maximum you can have.
• At the largest 2 : 3 sizes, the widened sides can look slightly softer than the rest of the cover. At eBook sizes such as 1600 x 2400 px they match.
• A version you made with Edit title & author or Restyle typography has its own text in the image, so it prepares its own master and exports your edited design — not the cover you started from.
• Enterprise workspaces can also run Advanced export through the API or an AI agent: POST /api/v1/covers/{coverId}/exports, or the agent tool export_cover. It reuses the master the browser made, so a cover you already exported needs no new upscale. Add shape: "2:3" for a 2 : 3 file. See Account, plans, credits, and teams.
• For a print-ready front, spine, and back in one file, use Create a full wrap cover. It matches your trim size and page count exactly; Advanced export only resizes the front cover.

Text-free eBook cover#

Choose Text-free cover to remove the cover's typography. When the version is ready, reopen the same action to view it.

From the preview you can download a high-resolution JPG. Existing upscaled text-free files are reused instead of being generated again. Without Pro access or a download credit for the book, BeYourCover offers the one-time Single Download purchase instead.

Text-free artwork is useful when:

• A designer will add the final typography elsewhere.
• You need clean artwork for a crop or campaign asset.

Audiobook cover#

Choose Audiobook cover to adapt the selected cover to a square 1:1 format while preserving the original design and typography.

1. Select Generate Audiobook Cover.
2. Compare the original and square previews.
3. Open the square preview to inspect it at a larger size.
4. Select Download Full Res Publishing Ready File.

The full-resolution output is a 2400 × 2400 JPG. Generation uses one image credit. If the run fails, the credit is returned. The audiobook cover is a Pro and Enterprise tool; on Free and Basic its row shows a Pro badge. Pro and Enterprise download the full-resolution result free, with no limit: it uses no download credit and no Enterprise plan credit. If you regenerate, BeYourCover deletes the current normal and upscaled audiobook versions before creating the replacement.

Always compare the result with the current requirements of Audible, ACX, Spotify, INaudio, Author's Republic, or your distributor.

Full wrap cover#

Choose Print wrap to build a print layout containing the front, spine, back, bleed, and safety guides. This opens the dedicated full-wrap editor.

See Create a full wrap cover for the complete workflow.

Marketing resources#

Choose Marketing resources to generate ads, social mockups, or a promotional video. You can close the progress window and keep working; BeYourCover notifies you when background generation finishes.

See Create marketing resources.

Book Launch Kit#

The last item takes this cover's book to the Launch Kit, which turns it into a full launch kit for this book: 23 channel-sized images with your launch details on them, an Amazon listing kit, ads and social copy, and a launch calendar.

What the item says depends on your account:

• Open your Launch Kit — this book already has a kit.
• Build your Launch Kit — you bought a kit and have not used it on a book yet.
• Book Launch Kit — you do not have a kit. The item opens the Launch Kit page, which shows a complete example kit before you buy. The kit is a Pro add-on.

On an Enterprise plan the item does not appear, unless you bought a kit before you moved to the plan. Enterprise plans use the marketing kit instead.

The book comes with you. If you buy from this item, the kit opens on this book right after payment.

See Book Launch Kit.

Enterprise batch download#

The Enterprise workspace owner and editors can select Batch download in the cover workspace header. On a phone, it is in the header's ⋯ menu.

1. Select low-resolution, high-resolution, or both for each cover.
2. Use Select All Low-Res or Select All High-Res when useful.
3. Choose up to 50 cover-resolution items in one job.
4. Start the batch.

BeYourCover processes the files in the background and emails a download link. The link is valid for seven days. You can close the progress window while the job runs.

If only some files succeed, the job is marked partially ready and the email contains the completed files.

If a job stops making progress for 10 minutes, it is marked failed and you receive an email with the reason. You can then start the batch again.

Before using an exported cover#

Inspect the downloaded file at 100% zoom and as a small thumbnail. Confirm:

• Correct title, subtitle, and author
• No unwanted AI artifacts
• Adequate contrast
• No watermark
• Correct aspect ratio and dimensions
• No important content too close to an edge
• Compliance with the current platform requirements