Using Student/Child Artwork

Using Student/Child Artwork

If you would like to use your students' or child's artwork to make full bleed cover or content here are a few tips.

Cover Art

If you would like the artwork to go to the edge of the cover, but the original artwork will be done on a standard 8.5x11 piece of paper here are a few things to keep in mind.
(This also applies to using an 11x17 to make a two-page spread)

• The background art should fill up the entire page so no white is showing.

• The foreground art should be 1.125" or more away from the edge of the page.  Foreground art includes anything you do not want to be cut off

• The image should be scanned at more than 300 DPI to account for you scaling the image up to fill the bleed area.  Images should be ~300 DPI when at the size you want them printed, so if you need to make the original image larger than the image should have higher resolution. 


Content Art

If you would like the artwork to go to the edge of the page, but the original artwork will be done on a standard 8.5x11 piece of paper here are a few things to keep in mind.
(This also applies to using an 11x17 to make a two-page spread)

• The background art should fill up the entire page so no white is showing.

• The foreground art should be .875" or more away from the edge of the page.  Foreground art includes anything you do not want to be cut off

• The image should be scanned at more than 300 DPI to account for you scaling the image up to fill the bleed area.  Images should be ~300 DPI when at the size you want them printed, so if you need to make the original image larger than the image should have higher resolution.