When i tried to upload a picture from my computer's photos, web novel said that the pic had to be 200x600 px or something like that. What am i doing wrong?

Relz it has to be 600x800 px and jpg and under 5 mb. if your cover doesn't fit in even one of those requirements, it will not upload.

yaoyueyi such a good fellow writer

DaddyFishGotBigPp uhh probably? I personally don't know bc I've never used the program but you can try haha. that probably doesn't help very much but that's about all I can tell you.

yaoyueyi Neh, too lazy. Just gonna try to complete the prologue and a few more chapters and ask Granddaddy You to make one for me ಠ‿ಠ

That is probably gonna take a few years, so no worries... ;-;

DaddyFishGotBigPp sure, good luck with writing! :)

Tutorial #7

Romance Genre

Time spent: 1.5 hours
Total amount of sprites/images used: 3

Step 1: Place desired image on canvas.

Step 2: Rotate image and remove background with the quick select tool + eraser tool.

Step 3: Remove undesired text over hair with the smudge tool. To get a really great texture, follow the directions of the strands of hair and make the smudge tool as small as possible. Use the yellow left over from the text as color complexity/highlights. Also, extend the hair with the same tool to create more volume.

Step 4: Using one single image of a row of chains, duplicate and rotate to create an entire background of chains. The reason why I decided to duplicate the chains instead of finding a background of chains online was because I wanted to be able to fully customize what it looked like.

Step 5: Use the Gradient Overlay blending option on each individual chain layer to add dimension. I set the gradient to a black and white one.

Step 6: Add PSD coloring to sprites and add a geometric background as well.

Step 7: Add text (on the Difference mode) and voila.

Tutorial #8

Romance Genre

Time spent: 2 hours
Total amount of sprites/images used: 4

STEP 1: Place desired images on canvas.

STEP 2: Remove the background of the images with the quick select tool + the eraser tool. Then, resize and position them.

STEP 3: Add in a background and use the Crosshatch filter in the Filter Gallery to apply texture to them.

STEP 4: Apply PSD coloring and find a picture of a poppy flower to match the color scheme. Duplicate and resize the poppy flowers to create a border.

STEP 5: Add on text and other textures. This is by far the most time consuming step because I had to figure out how I wanted to arrange the text. It was hard getting an idea because of how the flowers were positioned and the darker tones on the female render. In the end, I decided on using a bunch of watercolor brushes that I downloaded to add on the texture and make the text (which is some layers on multiply, others on color burn, and others on overlay + motion blur filter). This is also the finished product!

Xiaoyiyi8 ye, i'm merely using a phone with basic designs and it's taking me an hour per cover. not to mention, it does not even look good. the only easy part is placing the title.

Reinesse haha placing the title is the most difficult thing for me because typography requires so much practice/skill :cry:

yaoyueyi it was only easy cause it's placed in a black background the fading black stuff in typical translated novel covers.

Reinesse oh lol I highkey really hate webnovel translated (and some original fic) covers /no offense/ bc of that. it's such a lazy style (which really makes all the posters look the same) and I really think that if they're using these story covers to represent fics on a site with millions of readers, they need to up their graphics game. it's an okay style to me if they were made by a beginning graphics designer-- or like in your case, someone who lacks a proper program-- but I don't think that it's okay for such a big site like webnovel.

in fact, I wrote an entire rant about how terrible the webnovel covers are but I'm too scared to post it bc I feel like some important webnovel staffs or smth are going to get triggered by it :joy:

yaoyueyi lol, that's true. they just randomly buy the character they put in the cover and place them in a chosen background. they don't even try to exert effort on searching acceptable ones. just look at black bellied miss as an example.

yaoyueyi I am really impressed with each of the above. Omg!! It's really time process, you spend almost 2 to 3 hours on each cover even considering the likes and dislike of each and every person.you even do it for free.
Really great works and I would really appreciate you for making each and every cover adorable.
I think i yould spend my whole time in looking those tutorials and also your great work.

shrishthi thank you so much <33 wow I am flattered haha
i'm glad that you like reading my (poorly written) tutorials !!

Oh, so that's how the covers were made...
I assumed everyone knew how to draw. I don't have Photoshop, so I had to draw my own cover from scratch lol. >3</

90751052 haha no. :joy: I do draw (e.g. here yaoyueyi ) but that would take too much time that I'm not willing to spend on making covers for other people.