How to Manually Add Characters During Book Creation

Getting Started Guide

Applies to:

Web Mobile Tablet

While creating your book in the Web App, you can manually add custom characters directly into your story. This allows you to create unique characters on the fly, customize their details, and keep them saved for future books.

In the Create Your Characters step, Scrively gives you the option to manually add your own characters. To begin, click “Add Characters.”

Add your character's name.

A character type will be automatically set based on the provided name or image which can be adjusted.

Upload the character's photo.

Use the crop image tool to determine what part of the image to focus on.

If needed zoom in/out of the image.

When you're ready click on "Save."

Select who's in the image to help us tailor your experience.

Toggle on the option to change the character's appearance. 

Click on "Drawing style."

⚠️ When you change an uploaded character's style, that style will be preserved when the character is added to a book, even if the book uses a different style. If you want the character to match the book's style, do not modify the character style here.

The styles available to you will be based on your plan level. The Starter plan includes one style. One-time purchases include one style in each category. The Plus plan includes three styles per category, while the Pro plan unlocks all styles.

Hover over the drawing style to reveal and click on the enlarge tool.

Once selected, you’ll see a full-size preview of the drawing style.

Click on "Continue."

Add or change details about the character as needed.

You can either manually enter a character description or click “AI Suggest” to let Scrively generate one for you.

Click “Save to My Characters for Future Use” to add this character to your character library.

Click on "Add Character."

Congratulations! Your character has been created and will now appear in your characters list.

Not happy with how the character turned out and want to try another image? Click on “Edit character.” 

Hover over the character's image then click on "Replace photo" to select the new image.

Give Scrively a few moments to think.

The new character image will be generated.