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How to Make a Book from Images

Got your book as a set of separate images — AI art, illustrations, scanned pages, photos — instead of one PDF? You don't need to make a PDF. Our free tool turns your images into a print-ready book. Here's how.

Most print shops want a finished PDF. We don't — if all you have is a folder of images, our Build your book from images tool does the assembling for you: it puts your pages in order, sets your covers correctly, and builds a print-ready PDF right in your browser. The whole thing takes a few minutes.

1

Add your front cover and pages

Open the Build your book from images tool. Drop in your front cover first, then all your inside pages — you can add many at once. Drag them into the order you want, or nudge them with the arrows.

The assembler showing the front-cover slot and a numbered grid of inside pages
Your front cover gets its own slot; inside pages sit in a grid you can reorder.
2

Choose your back cover

Add a back-cover image, or tick "plain white back cover." Because the front and back covers each have their own slot, a story page can never end up printed on a cover by mistake.

The back-cover step, with an image chosen and a plain-white-back-cover option
A designed back cover, or plain white — your choice.
3

Pick a size and build

We guess the book size from your cover — square, A4 or A5 — and you can change it. Then hit Build my book. We assemble a print-ready PDF in your browser and make sure the page count is even, adding blank pages before the back cover if needed.

The book-size selector and a summary showing covers, page count and print size
A clear summary of your book before you build it.
4

Preview every page, then print

Before you pay, flip through your whole book — front cover, every spread, back cover, all clearly labelled — exactly as it'll be printed. Happy with it? Continue to checkout, choose softcover or hardcover, and we print and ship it worldwide.

The flip-through preview showing a two-page spread of the finished book
See your book as real facing spreads before you order.

The make-or-break tip: resolution. Use the largest, sharpest version of each image you have — aim for 200 DPI or better at the printed size. A book is all about how the pages look on paper, and low-resolution images are the one thing a clean layout can't rescue.

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