Cover editor

Community Generations

In order to use ready-made cover artwork, you need to go to "My Projects" in the left menu on the Community Generations page.

Next, you need to click on the "+" value on the project preview, or click on the previously assembled cover art.

Cover Editor functionality

The editor consists of several blocks of options:

• Workspace. On the left side you can see an icon that enables and disables the recommended borders for printing text.
• Element block. Where you can add the necessary elements for the cover: text, image, shapes.
• Layers. Where you can change the positions of the work item layers on the cover. The higher a layer is in the list, the higher this layer is in the workspace.

Here you can select or change the font, text color, text size or set a fixed line width and height. You can also set the alignment: center, left, right.

By clicking on a text block, you can drag and drop and change the angle of your text.

There can be many text blocks, several of them. You can add them in the element block, then display them on the top layer by dragging the text layer to the top of the layer list.

Working with illustrations

In the service you can add generated illustrations or upload your own from your local computer (at the moment you can upload jpg and png on a transparent background).

When you select the generated illustrations, the entire generation functionality will open for you. Also a list of options that you have already worked out.

* Recommendation. Be careful with the size of illustrations. If you are making a cover, we recommend that you first specify the required dimensions in the book form, and then generate the cover in auto mode. Then the size of images will automatically adjust to the format you have chosen earlier.

Working with shapes

When the cover is bright and colorful, the text can merge with the image, so it is often necessary to put a shape on the background.

This option is available in the Elements block.

In the workspace, you can stretch shapes and assign stroke colors to them.

Advanced

Any work item (text, image or shape) can be fixed in layers or deleted. Pinning is done so that you don't touch the elements that are finalized in the layout.

This is done by using icons in the workspace.

Attaching to a book

When your cover is ready click the "Next" button

"Download cover" - the cover will be downloaded in jpg format in good resolution for printing. In case your project (book) did not have text content, you are offered to continue working on the book - "Download Manuscript". Or go to your projects. or go back to editing the cover.