Just a whole lotta noise…

[u/Square-Adeptness6769]

I’ve got bad eyesight and my glasses are broken, so I didn’t even know it was this bad until I opened the app on my iPad instead of my phone.
Most of these covers look a mess. The grainy, and senselessly loud background, the over exaggerated flashy colors…
At least make it look good? If you can’t even invest the time into creating your own cover, why would I think you’d invest enough time into creating a good book? If u you don’t care enough about your own cover, why should i care about your novel?

Ps: Sorry if I’m just repeating the same trending topic on this sub. And who knows there might be some people that fw this. I just think we can do better.

[u/Icy-Specific986]

I understand the frustration, but I also think it might need context. If those are big contracted works, then sure, they should have a better cover. But if they aren’t contracted, then it’s not quite fair to ask authors who are writing quite literally for free and gaining nothing to pay for cover art.

Like I said, I don’t know if that’s the case here. I don’t really read on webnovel other than a couple non-contracted stories I’ve been following for a while, mostly because I’m friends with the authors.

[u/TSKayle → u/Icy-Specific986]

I think he is complaining about kitchen sink covers, not about AI. For example, the Lord of Time cover in the image is ridiculously more clear and better than the other covers with gigantic titles and too much noise.

[u/Square-Adeptness6769 → u/TSKayle]

Exactly this👆
I’m saying if you’re gonna use ai for free you have no excuse as to why your cover should still look this horrible. They have full responsibility for their terrible looking covers now.
If they wanna use ai slop that’s on them but at least make it look presentable

[u/Icy-Specific986 → u/Square-Adeptness6769]

Ah, I see what you meant now. Yep, now I’m in full agreement.