Making a summer cover for your photo book?

Way 1: Choose a ready-made summer cover ☀️

For whom: You want a quick, professional result without any hassle.

No time or desire to design it yourself? No problem! Especially for this summer season, our designers have created a collection of colorful covers—the same designs you may have already seen in our summer campaign. Think fresh colors, playful patterns, and sunny illustrations that instantly give any photo book that holiday feeling.

How it works:

1. Download your favorite cover below
2. Upload the design in our album designer as a cover image and place it in the background
3. Optionally add some of your own text or a name, and you're done!

Our tip: choose a cover that matches the colors of your holiday photos. Lots of beach and sea in your book? Go for blue and sand tones. A summer full of festivals and café terraces? Then let it pop with bright colors.

Download links:

Photo cover Albania

Photo cover Bali color

Photo cover Sicily

Photo cover Venice

Linen cover Bali

Way 2: Create your own design with our Canva template 🎨

For whom: You want something personal, but with a bit of help.

This is the golden middle ground: we've already done the design work, and you finish it off with your own photos and text. Our Canva template is all ready with photo frames, beautiful fonts, and a cheerful summery layout. You can leave the design exactly as it is, but you can also make it entirely your own: change the country name to your holiday destination, choose a different icon, or give the whole thing different colors.

How it works:

1. Open our template via this link , note: you only need a free Canva account
2. You'll automatically get your own copy, so you can't "ruin" anything
3. Customize the design to your taste: you can keep it exactly as is, but you can also change the colors, the icon, and the country, or place a photo of your destination on the cover. You do this easily by following the steps! Just make sure everything stays in its place!
4. Done? Download your design via Share → Download → export only your page as PNG or JPG
5. Add the downloaded design as a background on the cover in your project on our site
6. Check everything carefully in our own designer: is the position correct, is nothing too close to the edge or the spine? Then you can order!

In the template you'll find a handy instruction page that takes you step by step: from adjusting the design to downloading and adding it to your project on our site. Along with handy tips, such as: keep the spine of the book free of text and faces, and stay a centimeter away from the edges.

Our tip: choose one strong photo instead of many small ones. One image that sums up the whole summer—that one moment on the beach, those laughing faces at the ice cream stand, or a fun illustration—makes more of an impression than a collection.

Way 3: Design it entirely yourself in our album designer ✏️

For whom: You want complete creative freedom.

Are you someone who prefers to be at the controls yourself? In our album designer you decide everything: the background color, the number of photos, the fonts, the layout. From minimalist with one large photo to a colorful collage of your whole summer—it's all possible.

How it works:

1. Start a new photo book in our album designer
2. Play with background colors, photo layouts, and text
3. Preview it (including the spine and back cover!) before ordering

👉 Be sure to first watch holiday photo book tutorial video! In it, you'll see in just a few minutes exactly how the designer works and how to create a beautiful cover step by step. It saves you time and prevents the most common mistakes—well worth it before you start.