No generated artwork and no prompt box. Open a layered cover, set your title and name, and export for KDP, IngramSpark or your printer.
Covers here are set in English, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu. Every title, author line and shape is a separate layer you can change.
Writers are being asked more and more often whether their cover is AI generated, by readers, by contests and by some publishers. Bitgrain has no generative AI, so the answer is simple. You start from a layered cover, set your own title, and every element stays editable.
There is no text to image, no prompt box, no AI fill and no generated artwork anywhere in Bitgrain. The covers are layered designs: real type, vector shapes and image frames you can move, recolour or delete.
The photo editor has an optional background remover that uses a small on-device machine learning model to find the edge of a subject. It only cuts out what is already in your photo and creates nothing new. Everything else, including halftone, riso and grain effects, is classical image processing.
If you use a stock photo or commissioned art on your cover, keep the licence. That, plus a layered file, is the clearest record you can have of how a cover was made.
The most common paperback trim sizes are 5 by 8, 5.5 by 8.5 and 6 by 9 inches. Your printer or KDP will tell you the exact full wrap size once you know the page count, because the spine width depends on it. Ask for their template and match it.
For an ebook, 1600 by 2560 pixels is a widely used size and fits the 1.6 ratio most stores display. Most of the covers above are built at 1200 by 1800, the same 2 to 3 ratio as a 6 by 9 paperback, and Resize makes the ebook copy.
Make the ebook cover work as a small thumbnail. Readers first meet it at around the size of a postage stamp, so the title must still read at that size.
Most cover tools fall apart on Indian scripts. Bitgrain carries Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gurmukhi and Urdu fonts, and the Madhubani, Bengali and Urdu covers above were built with those scripts from the start.
For a bilingual book, put the original title large in its own script and the translated title smaller beneath. Keep the author name in one script only, unless the publisher asks otherwise.
Pick one strong image or one strong pattern, not both. Give the title real size. Keep the author name clear of the trim line. Check the cover in greyscale, because if it falls apart without colour the hierarchy is wrong.
Export a PDF for print and a JPG or PNG for online stores. Free exports carry a small watermark and are capped at 1080 pixels, so you will want Pro for the final print file.
There is no generative AI in Bitgrain. The only machine learning is an optional on-device background remover, which cuts out a subject in your own photo and creates nothing new.
Yes. Design the front, then match the full wrap template your printer gives you for spine width and bleed. Export a PDF at full resolution with Pro.
Yes. Several covers above already use Devanagari, Bengali and Urdu, and you can switch any text to fonts for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Gurmukhi too.
You can edit every template free, with exports up to 1080 pixels and a small watermark. Pro exports at full resolution.