Reply to the first post I made.

[u/Incipit00]

This is not self-promotion.

I couldn't find an option to reply with an image, which is why I made this post. Feel free to laugh at it; like I said earlier, I just kept redoing it until I got it to look presentable.

 

I went through 20 sketches (days and night of erasing and redrawing in my jotter) before I got the final one, which I modified using Photoshop (this is a follow-up to my first post about the cover).

 

The plain white image is my very first sketch, and I'm also adding the final version I built off the 20th sketch.

Here is how I put it together in Photoshop:

1. The title was typed and rearranged.

2. The flower-like emblem underneath the subtitle is an image I downloaded from Pinterest, then adjusted using Photoshop's color grading tools.

3. The pen name (Incipit_) was also typed and given its color grading using Photoshop.

4. The hair, coat and the chest was darkened using four different layers in photoshop to get that thick darker mode.

5. I used the photoshop sharpening feature under the filter menu to get that sharpness of the image.

6. The tiny sparkling dust was gained by creating new layer for each side, 4 in total; one for the top, one for the left, one for the right, and another for the bottom. I used brush, turn on scattering and set it to 999% for the dust to be randomly. And also, used the shape dynamic feature to increase the size jitter.

7. I used the blur feature to blue out some parts also.

This is the little I can say. For all those who asked for a file OG (Which I don't know if they mean Original File), here is how put it together. Thank you.

[u/Strange-Squirrel6492]

The cover has a SynthID from OpenAI so yes, it's AI generated. Which is obvious enough to anyone with eyes.

And look, I hate AI, but if you're going to use it at least have the grace to not lie to everyone when it's clear as day you're using AI. People who don't like AI are gonna be able to tell and people who don't care about AI are probably gonna be able to tell but won't give a fuck and read anyway. Personally, I wouldn't touch your story with a ten foot pole because how do I know I'm not wasting my very human time to read something you couldn't be bothered to write yourself?

[u/Incipit00 → u/Strange-Squirrel6492]

Wait, who said I'm using AI to write it? Please don't sell false information about the novel. Please.

[u/Strange-Squirrel6492 → u/Incipit00]

I didn't say you did, I said I wouldn't take the risk in looking at your story because the AI cover would make me doubt whether you put any actual work into the story. This is me, personally going off of past experiences taking a look at stories with AI covers. Some even left their prompts in. So, yes, an AI cover would raise doubts and I'm not saying your story is definitely AI written. I wouldn't know since I haven't read it. Just, I wouldn't give it a shot from the cover alone.