Best for
- Families designing a recipe keepsake
- Designers receiving cookbook source files
- Gift coordinators choosing cover images
Cover planning
Family cookbook cover photo planning
Plan family cookbook cover photos with scan quality, permission, title wording, dedication tone, and print-readiness notes.
What the handoff includes
- Cover photo shortlist
- Title and subtitle prompts
- Permission review
- Print quality checklist
Workflow
- Choose 2-3 possible cover images.
- Draft title and subtitle options.
- Confirm photo permission.
- Check resolution before print export.
Review safeguards
- Do not use private photos without family approval.
- Avoid low-resolution cover scans for printed books.
- Confirm title wording before ordering copies.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
Can the cover use a scanned recipe card?
Yes, if the scan is high quality and the family approves it.
Does this design the final cover?
No. It prepares cover direction and handoff notes for a designer or template.