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[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Okay, this time, I made sure to look the tutorial closely multiple times, to not find the answer to this question...

I've been using this site for my stories for a couple of months now, and I'm liking it! I'm getting more engagement than I was on DeviantArt. Still, I've been intending to draw for my content as well, and that includes the book covers here. Now that I'm finally getting the chance to draw more, I was hoping to make my book covers myself! (Profile image is my own digitally hand-drawn character, Embra, from the Stories of Embra series I'm posting here.)

As I've been shopping around, I noticed another site has a file size limit to the book cover image (Tapas, btw; 2MB). So my question is, does Scribble Hub have a file size limit for book cover images? Just want to make sure before I start going at it and make something that's too data-intensive...

When you go to submit a cover image, this is above it. (A brand new story might look a bit different, I don't remember.)

I think there is a file size limit, but I'm unsure what it is exactly.

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

When you go to submit a cover image, this is above it. (A brand new story might look a bit different, I don't remember.)
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I think there is a file size limit, but I'm unsure.

There is a file size limit. I bypassed it once before by making the first chapter as the cover.

 

[Corty]

@CrystalSeaDragon44 I advise you to crop the image to the size stated by the site. (250x350) Otherwise it will be smushed and distorted. That way your file size will be also within any limit if there is any.

 

[CrystalSeaDragon44]

I get that it has to fit in the 250x350 px size box, but what I'm wondering (given it's advice offered elsewhere) is whether I can boost the size by multiples of that (say, 500x700, or two times the size) and export it as the corresponding fraction (1/2 or 50%, for this example).

If that works, then it's just a matter of how big the file can be, in kilobytes/megabytes. 500x700 is going to be a lot less data than 2500x3500 (no, I wouldn't go that big... I'm pretty sure). But it seems the limit isn't known in this regard...

 

[Cipiteca396]

I get that it has to fit in the 250x350 px size box, but what I'm wondering (given it's advice offered elsewhere) is whether I can boost the size by multiples of that (say, 500x700, or two times the size) and export it as the corresponding fraction (1/2 or 50%, for this example).

If that works, then it's just a matter of how big the file can be, in kilobytes/megabytes. 500x700 is going to be a lot less data than 2500x3500 (no, I wouldn't go that big... I'm pretty sure). But it seems the limit isn't known in this regard...

If you make the picture larger than 250x350, it will shrink the image Paint style, and fidelity will be lost.

In other words, you can, but it will be uglier.

As for size, umm... Don't take this as gospel, because I only did a little tiny bit of testing and only on this forum rather than the cover image. But an 1,025 KB image was considered 'Too Large'. Stuff below that seemed to work. I'm extremely suspicious that something a little funky is going on though, because I'm sure I've uploaded larger images.

Either way, it's best to work with a 250x350 image, especially if you want to put text on the cover.

 

[AliceShiki]

As for size, umm... Don't take this as gospel, because I only did a little tiny bit of testing and only on this forum rather than the cover image. But an 1,025 KB image was considered 'Too Large'. Stuff below that seemed to work. I'm extremely suspicious that something a little funky is going on though, because I'm sure I've uploaded larger images.

If it's anything like NUF, file type might also alter the limit of what you can upload to the forums.

JPG in NUF has a higher limit than PNG, so maybe that's what happened there.

 

[Cipiteca396]

If it's anything like NUF, file type might also alter the limit of what you can upload to the forums.

JPG in NUF has a higher limit than PNG, so maybe that's what happened there.

Funnily enough, I checked that. The 1025 image that failed was a jpg. It's still quite likely that the limit is different, but I'm not going to spend more time on it cause I've gotta go get dinner soon.