What file do I need for a dust jacket?

The jacket's full wrap is best: both flaps, the back, the spine and the front in one image. A front cover alone works too.

Is there a PSD to download?

No, and you don't need one. It's all in the browser.

Can I show the book without the jacket?

Yes: switch the binding to hardback for the bare case.

Yes, to start, with no account and no watermark: the 3D paperback and hardback, turned up to 45° either way, exported at up to twice the size. Pro adds the full turn to the back, the dust jacket, read and well loved copies, the scenes and three times the size. You can try every Pro option on the canvas first; the export then carries a small preview tape.

Dust jacket mockup, flaps and all, online

A hardback in its jacket, with the flaps folded inside the boards. No PSD to download, no smart object to edit.

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Free to start. No signup to try. Nothing stamped on your exports.

A close crop of Smashed in a glossy dust jacket, running off the edge of the picture, on a black and magenta flowing pattern — Smashed in a dust jacket, close in, on a flowing pattern in its magenta.

What the dust jacket mockup does

Almost every dust jacket mockup online is a Photoshop file: download the PSD, find the smart object, paste your artwork, hope the flaps line up. That's a lot of steps for one picture, and you need Photoshop to take them.

In DudeCovers the jacket is a binding, next to paperback and hardback. The jacket sits over the boards, a touch looser than a printed case, and its flaps fold round inside the front and back covers. Turn the book and you see the fold at the fore edge, the way a jacketed book looks on a table.

Use your jacket artwork as one full wrap (back flap, back, spine, front, front flap) or your cover on its own, and the flaps take the colour of the edges. It's a Pro option: try it on the canvas free, and the export carries a small preview tape until you go Pro.

Round the back, and on the shelf

The back of Smashed's dust jacket with the edge of the flap at the fore edge — Turned round past the fore edge: the back of the jacket and its folded flap.

Notes from Paraspace in a dust jacket face out on a walnut library shelf, evening light through blinds striping the books — Notes from Paraspace in a jacket on a library shelf, in evening light through blinds.

Dust jacket mockup features

Flaps that fold

Inside the boards, front and back, so the fore edge shows the jacket's fold.

Gloss or matte jacket

Most jackets are gloss. Matte is there for the soft touch editions.

Spin to the back

Show the back of the jacket and the edge of the flap (Pro).

Shelves and shops

A jacketed hardback looks at home in the library and bookshop sets.

Straight answers.

What file do I need for a dust jacket?: The jacket's full wrap is best: both flaps, the back, the spine and the front in one image. A front cover alone works too.
Is there a PSD to download?: No, and you don't need one. It's all in the browser.
Can I show the book without the jacket?: Yes: switch the binding to hardback for the bare case.
Is it free?: Yes, to start, with no account and no watermark: the 3D paperback and hardback, turned up to 45° either way, exported at up to twice the size. Pro adds the full turn to the back, the dust jacket, read and well loved copies, the scenes and three times the size. You can try every Pro option on the canvas first; the export then carries a small preview tape.

Try the dust jacket mockup free.

Free to start, no account, no watermark. Drop in your cover and turn it to the light.

Make a dust jacket mockup

Dust jacket mockup, flaps and all, onlineDust jacket mockup, flaps and all, online