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Drop in your cover art
JPG or PNG, ideally the square 1400 x 1400 the stores ask for. The card colours are pulled from the art itself, and you pick between the swatches it found.
Drop in your cover art and get announcement graphics sized for stories, the feed, link previews and video thumbnails in one pass. Colours come out of the artwork, and your cover is never cropped.
Runs in your browser. Your artwork never leaves your device: the cards are drawn here and saved straight to your downloads, with no watermark.
JPG or PNG, ideally the square 1400 x 1400 the stores ask for. The card colours are pulled from the art itself, and you pick between the swatches it found.
Release title, artist name and the date. Choose whether the card reads out now, out on the date or pre-save, and add your pre-save or smart link if you want a QR code on it.
Switch between the five formats to check each one, then download the card you are looking at or the whole set. They come out as PNGs, ready to post.
A release announcement is never one post. The story is 1080 x 1920, the feed reads best at 1080 x 1350, a grid tile or a square post wants 1080 x 1080, a video thumbnail is 1920 x 1080, and the preview that appears when someone pastes your link into X, Facebook, Discord or Slack is built from a 1200 x 630 image. Post one graphic into all five and four of them get cropped by the platform, usually straight through the title.
The obvious shortcut does not cover the part that matters. Spotify for Artists makes promo cards from music that is already live, so it can help on release day and after it, but not during the run-up when the pre-save is the whole job. Template tools go the other way: they will make any size you like, as long as you crop your cover to fit the frame the template was drawn around.
This one starts from the opposite rule. Your artwork is fitted whole inside a margin on every card, in every format, at its own aspect ratio, so nothing is trimmed and no type ever sits on top of it. A square cover stays square, a wide one stays wide, and the artwork is the thing people recognise in the feed, so it is worth keeping intact.
The colour is yours too. The palette is read out of your cover, the same way the audiogram maker reads it, and whichever swatch you pick becomes the card. The text colour is then chosen against the ground it actually lands on rather than assumed, which is what keeps a title readable on a near-white sleeve as well as on a dark one.
Yes. No account, no watermark, no caps. The cards are drawn on your device rather than on our servers, so there is nothing for us to meter or charge for.
Five, in one pass: 1080 x 1920 for stories, 1080 x 1350 for the feed, 1080 x 1080 for squares and grid tiles, 1920 x 1080 for video thumbnails, and 1200 x 630 for the link preview that shows when someone pastes your link into a chat or a post.
No, and that is the point. On every style and every format the artwork is fitted whole, at its own aspect ratio, inside a margin. Non-square art keeps its shape instead of losing its long edges, and the type is always kept clear of the cover.
From your artwork. The palette is extracted from the cover and shown as swatches you can switch between. On a cover with almost no colour in it, a beige sleeve or a pencil drawing, the accent becomes the artwork's own darkest tone rather than a colour that is nowhere in the record.
Yes. Paste it in and the link card turns it into a QR code so anyone looking at the preview can scan straight through. The other four formats stay clean unless you switch the QR on, which adds a small code in the corner.
It is drawn to scan off a screen. Every module is a whole number of pixels with no resampling, never smaller than three pixels, and the full four-module quiet zone the spec asks for is kept clear, so the code survives the recompression a platform puts an upload through.
That is what the three wordings are for: pre-save while you are building up to it, out on the date once it is announced, and out now on release day. The same artwork and colours carry across all three, so the campaign looks like one thing.
No. The cover is read, the palette is measured and the cards are drawn entirely on your device. Nothing reaches our servers and nothing is stored when you leave the page.
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