Design Your Book's Images in Scrively

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. Click into the image frame on a page, and you’ll see the option to “Generate” an image using Scrively AI.

Describe your image in detail. Include the setting, characters, emotions, and visual style. The more specific you are, the better Scrively can bring your vision to life.

You can also select the characters in the add characters dropdown.

Click on "Generate."

Give Scrively a few moments to think.

The image will be generated based on the provided description.

Not satisfied with the image result? Tweak your description as needed and click on “Regenerate” to try again until it feels just right.

When you're satisfied click on "Done."

The image will be displayed in the selected 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!

Once your images are ready, simply scroll through the pages on the left side to preview each illustration within your story.

To update or replace a generated image for a selected page, click on the image frame and select “Generate” to create a new version.

You also have the option to upload an image from your device into the 

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

Depending on the template you’ve selected, you may also have the option to fit images into frames. You can learn more about this feature here.

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

Each page that requires an image must have one added before publishing. 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 publish until the images are added. Next, check out our guide on writing your book's back cover blurb.