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Covers and art

Cover, illustration, and promo images. Treat the picture as a draft, and read the commercial terms before you publish it.

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Covers and art

Cover, illustration, and promo images.

4 tools

  • Covers and art

    Adobe Firefly

    Generative image tools trained with an eye on licensed stock, and wired into Photoshop. That does not make every output a cleared book cover, but the paper trail is easier to explain to a publisher than a random model checkpoint. The pictures can look like stock. Sometimes that is what a nonfiction cover wants.

    Best for Authors already in Photoshop who want generative fills and a more legible commercial story.

    FreemiumFiction and nonfiction

  • Covers and art

    Canva Magic Studio

    Templates, Magic Media images, and Magic Write copy in the same place you will actually export a paperback wrap or an Instagram square. The risk is the Canva look: competent, familiar, and easy to spot. A fine way to ship a decent ebook cover or launch graphic if you push past the first template.

    Best for Authors who need a workable cover, social graphics, and a blurb draft without hiring a designer yet.

    FreemiumFiction and nonfiction

  • Covers and art

    Coverfairy

    A browser studio for indie authors that keeps title type separate from the artwork, then exports ebook, print wrap, audiobook square, mockups, and a typeset interior from the same project. AI images are optional and metered. It will not lay out a photo book or a fixed-layout children's book, and full-resolution files stop when the pass ends.

    Best for Indie authors who want an editable cover and a prose interior in one project, without a design subscription.

    FreemiumFiction and nonfiction

  • Covers and art

    Leonardo.Ai

    A web image studio with more knobs than a chat box: models, image guidance, and tools aimed at keeping a character's look closer across pictures. Still not a layout program. Use it for cover concepts and interior spots, then finish type and composition somewhere that understands print.

    Best for Cover concepts and interior art when you want controls, not only a prompt box.

    FreemiumFiction and nonfiction