Hello, everyone! So I've been playing around with effects and whatnot to practice cover-making ^^ I don't really have any Serena story, though, so I guess this cover is just a mock...?

So I start off with the initial artwork that I drew~

Afterwards I upload it in my effects app and play around with what I think looks pretty(basically 100% how I do things)

After giving the image some pretty tones and effects, I send it back to my drawing app for even more effects
*I've taken a liking to using gradient dots, so I added those, too ^^

Then I export the edited image and send it to my laptop, where I do further edits on my video program (it's for making videos, but it has lots of pretty effects so I figured why not use it)

In that program is where I also add font(since I'm super limited to like 5 fonts on my editing app ><)

To export the actual finished image, what I do is select some options that basically take a photo of the rendered image and then I upload onto MSPaint(lol), edit out any white parts from pasting, then export the PNG

The final results are this~ I added lots of glowing, like the petals and the pink heart I decided to add(bc Serena is such a sweetheart <3)

And, of course, I could have added some things like an actual story title and my username, as well as some other images to combine, but I like it so far~

Anyhoo, feel free to comment your thoughts down below~!