Edit and improve a cover

Open the editing tools

Select a cover, then open Image editing. On mobile, open the cover action sheet and choose Edit cover.

Advanced editing tools are available to Pro and Enterprise users. The interface shows the credit cost before a generation-based edit.

Edit cover text

Choose Edit title & author.

For supported covers, BeYourCover detects the existing text and separates it into editable layers. Text detection uses one image credit the first time; reopening a cached layout does not repeat detection.

After detection you can:

• Select and drag title, subtitle, author, and other detected text layers.
• Change the font and font size.
• Set text color from suggested swatches, a custom picker, or the eyedropper.
• Align text left, center, or right.
• Apply bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough.
• Zoom the canvas and fit it to the screen.
• Save a new composite cover version.

Some covers use the earlier advanced text editor. It also supports choosing original or text-free base variants, showing or hiding title/author/subtitle, line splitting, font styles, colors, alignment, shadows, uppercase, text backgrounds, and gradient overlays.

Text editing saves a new cover result. Review the saved version in the cover grid before exporting.

Restyle typography

Choose Restyle Typography when the words are correct but the type treatment feels weak.

BeYourCover analyzes the cover and suggests up to three typography directions. You can:

• Select one to three suggestions.
• Reuse a suggestion's full prompt and modify it.
• Ignore the suggestions and write custom typography instructions.

Each selected direction creates one new cover and uses one image credit. Custom instructions create one cover.

Good custom instructions describe hierarchy and treatment rather than only naming a font:

Make the title a tall condensed sans serif in uppercase, increase spacing, keep the author small, and use warm ivory type with a subtle shadow.

Change elements or layout

Choose Change elements or layout to transform the visual content with a natural-language instruction.

Examples:

• Replace the dragon with a burning sword.
• Change the background to a misty pine forest.
• Remove the second figure and move the title higher.

The transformation uses one image credit and creates a new version. Describe one coherent change per run; a long list of unrelated changes is harder to preserve accurately.

Try a different visual style

Choose Try a different visual style to convert the existing concept into another template or visual family.

1. Review templates recommended for the book's genre.
2. Expand Other Styles if needed.
3. Select a template.
4. Confirm Convert Style.

Style conversion uses one image credit. Converting illustration to photorealism is experimental; the most reliable results stay within similar categories, such as illustration-to-illustration or photo-to-photo.

Create or view a text-free cover

The Free-text eBook Cover action removes the title and author from the image. After it is generated, the action changes to See Free-text eBook Cover.

Use the clean version as a base for custom typography or external layout work. The preview window can create and download a high-resolution text-free version.

Use AI Cover Expert chat

Select AI Cover Expert chat to discuss the selected cover. The expert automatically reviews the current version and keeps the conversation associated with that cover.

You can:

• Explain your audience, market, or visual goal.
• Ask what is not working.
• Choose between proposed directions.
• Generate a proposed full version for one credit.
• Apply a localized edit for one credit.
• Create an audiobook cover when the expert recommends that output.
• Switch between cover versions discussed in the conversation.

Chat messages themselves do not consume image credits. Applying an edit or generating a version does. Saved conversations resume when you reopen chat on the same root cover.

Edit in the right order

For fewer wasted credits:

1. Settle the overall visual concept.
2. Use style conversion or transformation for major artwork changes.
3. Generate close variations.
4. Restyle or manually edit typography.
5. Create text-free, audiobook, marketing, and print outputs from the final cover.