Images in your book: move, resize, round and crop with Gutter

Drag the image in the preview and drop it onto another paragraph, and Gutter places it there. You can also ask in the chat: two paragraphs down, at the start of chapter 3, after a paragraph that begins with certain text, or at the end of the book.

Each image has a label with its number, so you can refer to it (“image 3”).

Tell it the width you want (as a percentage of the text block, from 10 to 100) or just say “smaller” or “bigger”, and align it left, center or right. The labels in the preview show each image's width and resolution (ppi).

Yes. You can add a border (thickness and color), remove it, and adjust the spacing above and below the image, from “tight to the text” to lots of breathing room.

Ask for rounded corners (small, medium, large, or circular) or a crop: square, landscape, panoramic or portrait. Cropping only changes how the image looks in the book. Your original file stays untouched.

The “full page” option places the image on a page of its own, centered, within the margins and without distorting it. If you want it to reach the edge of the paper, ask for it “full bleed” and it will extend all the way to the edge.

Yes. Just ask and the image disappears from the layout. If it had a caption, the caption stays, because it's part of your book's text and Gutter never deletes text. It will let you know so you can decide what to do.

For good print quality, KDP recommends at least 300 ppi. Gutter measures the actual resolution of each image as placed on the page and warns you about any that fall short. The images in your Word file are optimized for KDP (for example, CMYK is converted to RGB, and images are kept under 5 MB in the ePub).

No. Gutter typesets what's already in your Word file. If you want another image, add it to your Word file wherever you like and upload it again (or use “update manuscript”). Then you can move it, resize it or adjust it just like the others.