A cover is the first thing a reader sees, and the Cover Editor can generate cover art for you right inside the design surface — no outside tools required. You can describe exactly what you want, or let BookZeta draw on your book's title, genre and synopsis to suggest something that fits.

Generating cover art step by step

1. Open the Cover Editor and choose Suggest / Generate cover art.
2. Describe the scene you want, or let BookZeta build a prompt from your title, genre and synopsis. The AI Suggest Cover Prompt option gives you genre-aware prompt ideas to start from.
3. Pick a style and generate. Review the result and regenerate until it fits the mood of your book.
4. Add your title and author text on top, then position everything with the layers panel.

You can generate a full background, a central focal character, or both. If you already have artwork, you can upload your own PNG/JPG instead, or pull from your existing gallery of generated images.

Placing art and text

Use the Fill / Stretch options to make a generated image cover the whole canvas or snap to the edges. Then build your text on separate layers above the art so you can reposition the title and author name without disturbing the background. For styling the text so it reads clearly over busy art — backgrounds, shadows and fonts — see Layers, fonts & typography.

Staying inside the guides

Keep the key art and your title and author text within the safe-area guides, especially for print covers, so nothing critical gets trimmed off. If you're working on a print wrap, remember the spine width is calculated from your page count, so the front-cover region may be narrower than a digital-only cover — design with that in mind.

Costs and pitfalls

• Cover generations cost Creation Points, and each regeneration is a new generation — refine your description and style before generating many variations.
• Generate the background first, then add title and author text on their own layers on top; baking text into the generated image makes it impossible to edit later.
• Leave breathing room around where your title will sit, so the text isn't fighting busy detail.
• Check the result against the safe-area and bleed guides before exporting, particularly for print.

For everything else about building the cover itself, see the Cover Editor.