yaoyueyi I agree with you, the process of making cover not that easy. If you don't know how, it can be confusing. I also still learning how to use photoshop, so I can understand how annoying it is when people keep pestering to make cover like it's as easy as blew your breath

      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.

                                      Tutorial #9

                                      Fantasy Genre

                                      Time spent: 2 hours
                                      Total amount of sprites/images used: 6

                                      STEP 1: Place desired images on canvas.
                                      step1

                                      STEP 2: Resize images and clip the image of the girl onto a layer that has content on the bottom half of the sword so it splits half and half.
                                      step2

                                      STEP 3: Touch up on things (like the rendering of the sword or turning the background of the guy a dark gray). Also add on a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to make the shades pop more.
                                      step3

                                      STEP 4: Add on texturing (sparks for this one that reminded me of some cool magical effect) and eye color for the two. To achieve the color of the eyes, I simply found two images online with the shapes I wanted and cut out the irises. Then, I applied correction layers (Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast and Tone Curve) to get the color I wanted, which was a very vibrant blue and a more toned down brown).
                                      step4

                                      STEP 5: Add text! To make the words stand out, I applied a clipping mask onto the rasterized text layer and used the paintbrush tool to color the section of the words that touch the sword white. You could probably do the same effect with an adjustment layer, but I found clipping to be the easiest. Also put the layer on Overlay and duplicate to add some texture and glow. Use the Dodge & Burn tool to add more dimension and contrast in areas that are needed. As usual, the text is the final step.
                                      step5

                                        yaoyueyi This is look so cool. Only problem is I don't think I'll be able to do it. I'll try though.

                                            NatsumeRikka lol it took me 2 years of experience to get to where I am today. :') really this thread is more like a process than a tutorial since I haven't gone in detail on how all the adjustment layers and tools work and all that. it would be preeeetty difficult for a beginners to do this but like you said, you can always try! I also highly rec looking up actual tutorials and getting photoshop or a decent program if you don't have that already.

                                                yaoyueyi I have installed a photoshop app, and I tried making a cover but the I'm completely confused about the tools there, so it didn't go very well. Can u tell me what app you use? I searched for photoshop cs4 but I found adobe photoshop. Is that it?

                                                    NatsumeRikka I use Photoshop CS6. CS4 is a bit outdated, but it will work. Adobe Photoshop is just a summary for all of them, I think. Took me about two months to get used to the photoshop interface though, so I'm guessing that it will take awhile for you too. Best advice is to watch tutorials-- that'll probably speed up the process.

                                                        This photoshop tutorial seems to be okay for beginners. The basic tools for CS4 should exist for CS6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFyOznL9UvA

                                                          Veronica8 just a tip but you should probably click "reply" and then type your reply when you're replying to messages so that the person actually gets a notification!

                                                              Tutorial #10

                                                              Romance Genre

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

                                                              STEP 1: Place desired images on canvas.
                                                              step1

                                                              STEP 2: Position image, erase watermark signature w/ the smudge tool, and add on sky textures on Screen mode to get the star effect. Erase some of the texture where the face is to limit it to the hair.
                                                              step2

                                                              STEP 3: Apply PSD coloring, Selective Color adjustment layer, and Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to get the color you want.
                                                              step3

                                                              STEP 4: Add on watercolor texture and clip the girl sprite on it. Then, add on more watercolor texture over the sprite to give even more texture.
                                                              step4

                                                              STEP 5: Add on text. As you can tell, I also added on a Color Balance adjustment layer because I decided that yellow would look nicer.
                                                              step5

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