Design and Customize Book Images

Bring your story to life with vivid images using Scrively. Whether you’re illustrating characters, settings, or scenes, Scrively gives you the creative tools to visually enhance your book. From choosing art styles to customizing details, designing your book’s visuals has never been easier or more fun.

Scrively offers multiple ways to add images to your book. In the Designer (book layout view) click into the image frame on a page, and you’ll see the option to “Generate” an image.

Note: For premade book templates, you can retry image generation on any of the pages where your character appears.

Use the "Generate prompt" option if you want Scrively to write the image prompt for you.

Alternatively, you can manually add your image prompt. The more details you provide about the character, scene, or style, the closer the generated image will match your vision. Be as specific as you can!

When using the "Generate prompt" option Scrively will automatically associate characters with the prompt. You can deselect them if needed.

When you're ready click on "Generate."

Scrively will take a few moments to think.

Need to make adjustments to the image prompt or characters? Click on "Cancel."

The generated image will be displayed.

Not satisfied with the generated image? Adjust the description then click on "Regenerate."

Click on "Done" to add the image to the page.

The image will be displayed in the selected image frame.

If you’d prefer not to generate images for each page, click on “Generate All Images” in the bottom right corner. Scrively will automatically create images for every page based on your story’s context.

Scrively will let you know how long the image generation process may take. Once you’re ready, click “Continue” to proceed.

Give Scrively a few minutes to generate your illustrations. This is a great time to take a short break while the magic happens!

If you need to stop the bulk illustration process, click on “Cancel Generation."

Once your first five images are ready, you’ll see the “Start editing” option. This lets you continue working on your book while the rest of the images finish generating in the background.

In the top-right corner, you’ll see a progress bar showing the status of image generation. If you select "Start editing" and later decide you don’t want the remaining images to generate, you can use the "Cancel generating" option to stop the process at any time.

The generated images will be displayed in each page on the left side.

All generated images will be displayed on the right side in the book's image library.

Click on "Generate new image" if you would like to generate new images.

Note: When you use the "Generate new image" option on the right-hand side, the image isn’t placed into the page frame automatically. It’s saved to the book's image library. 

Double-click into the image frame on the page, hover over the image on the right side then, click on "Insert Image" to add it to the frame.

At the top right hand side navigate to the "Uploads" tab to import an image from your device.

Double-clicking an image frame that already contains an image will display additional options, including the ability to upload an image directly from your device into that frame.

Use the download icon to save the image to your device if needed.

To remove the image entirely, click on the trash icon.

Each page that requires an image must have one added. If an image is missing, the "Navigate to missing image" button will appear at the bottom-right. Clicking it will take you directly to the frame on each page where an image is missing and you will not be able to "Finish and save" until the images are added. 

Next, check out our guide on writing your book's back cover blurb.