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there are lots of fun styles you can use for your edits and covers. i'm listing a few that i use in my edits. feel free to use these styles and incorporate them into your own edits! no need to credit me since i don't think i invented or created them lmao

all the examples are names of my favourite songs/songs that i can't currently get out of my head!

let's begin! ::

so this is pretty simple and honestly gives me a nostalgic feel?? i made it using over, but you can make it with any simple text app.

basically, type your text out in one solid color of your choice. then duplicate that and reduce its opacity to 50% and place it directly below the first text. repeat that again, this time reducing the opacity to 25% and place the text directly below the second text. you can have as many texts possible tbqh. just remember to keep the opacity of the next one lesser by a significant margin to the previous one's opacity.

this, again, is also very simple to make and nice for minimalist edits. any text app with a shadow effect will do. select a bold color for the shadow (it shouldn't be the same color as the main text) and angle it towards the right or the left in such a way it's almost outlining that part of the main text (kinda hard to explain). increase the shadow's opacity to 100% and keep its blur to zero. made this one using over too!

this one's made using over and it's very simple. quick tip: don't use the letters: 'f', 'g', 'y' and 'z'. it ruins the mirror effect. duplicate your text and flip it 180°. place it below the main text as shown in the example.

this one's fairly popular and as you can see, this book's littered with it lmao. sans inspired me to make this style.

write your main text in lemon milk (the script one), duplicate it and change the font to tehika (the cursive one). increase the size of the tehika one such that each letter of it coincides with the same letter as the lemon milk. no need to change the position of the the duplicated text.

this one's slightly tough but the pride flag makes the hard work worth it <33

basically, i duplicated the main text, changed its color, increased its size by a tiny bit and nudged it (god that option is a life-saver) slightly towards the right and repeated that step five more times.

it's tricky to assemble and get the color scheme right. you can do it for a minimum of three colors. inspired by peachylittlepanda 💞

this i made using phonto. and yes it's a custom-made font by queen emma ! i used it a lot for my template white knight uwu it is such an adorable font. basically, open styles for your text and increase the stroke's settings (alpha and width) to the extreme (255 and 16). then, go to its (the stroke's) color settings and select 'gradient →' and play with any colors and create your gradient (remember to save the style). remember to keep the font color (color) to white. you can do the other way round as well, im sure the result will be as pretty.

this i made using over. this particular font has two variations: one a normal filled solid color type and the other an outline of the same font. duplicate the filled one and change the font to the outlined one. using nudge, you shift it to the left. increase the size slightly.

this was so tricky to make ugh

open phonto, enter one word of your text (good, in this case) and change the stroke settings to alpha: 202 and width: 16. the color can be any one solid color, no gradients necessary. then, go to the curving settings and change the angle to 90 (not -90). now, write the second word in your text and repeat the stroke settings, however change the curving settings to -60 (or whatever that goes inversely well with the first word. the exclamation mark is an extra (no curving needed for that). most preferably go with two word titles or three-words max (the third one's curving can be similar to the first one's).

so this was inspired from a random graphic in over that i somehow managed to save. whoever made that, please make the rest of the alphabets free. I was only able to use the letter m-

jkjkjk i made this one from scratch. i don't think it's necessary to use this for a book cover (unless your title is literally just one letter). you can use it for banners or headers. it's pretty self-explanatory: take a sexc sans font like montserrat and enter a single letter, dump some pretty looking pngs on it (mostly nature). the dot is an extra but a nice liddol touch

i hope you guys liked these! this entire segment was inspired from queen emma's own resource book wonton factory (it's a blessing to all editors out there 😭😭)

comment on the graphic tips chapter if you want tips on anything else (not full-on tutorials) and I'll try to see if I can help out (remember how abysmal my own editing skills can be)