Covers and the pictures inside

Every article gets a picture at the top, made when the article is written and kept on your own account.

The settings are under Covers in Brief & settings.

The three kinds

Designed: "Your colour, the title, no AI. Never fails." A typographic cover drawn from your brand colour and your site's name. It is the reliable one: no model is involved, so it cannot come back wrong.

Photograph: "A real photograph of the subject." A real photo rather than a generated image.

Artwork: "Generated, with the title over it." Generated imagery with the title laid over it.

Picking a design

Choose Designed and a gallery appears, headed Pick a design, with the line "Each one is drawn from your colour and your site's name by the same code that draws the real cover."

That last part matters. What you are looking at is not a mock-up. It is the actual renderer, with your colour and your domain, so what you pick is what you get.

Six designs, plus Whichever suits my site, which picks one from your domain and stays consistent.

The point of showing them rather than naming them is that nobody can choose a cover from the word "editorial".

Changing one after the fact

If a cover came back wrong, the day page has Not the one?, which lets you choose another without rewriting the article.

Worth knowing, because the alternative people reach for is regenerating the whole article to get a different picture.

Product screenshots

For listicles and comparisons that name real products, Rankbench can capture the products themselves rather than illustrating them, and every capture gets a browser frame at one size so a set looks like a set.

A plan that names none of its products is rejected for this treatment rather than being given generic images.

Pictures inside the article

Set under More in the settings. By default they follow the cover's family, so an article with a photographic cover gets photographic images inside it and one with a designed cover stays consistent.

The other options are illustration, sketch, watercolour, photography, isometric, and a geometric treatment in your own colour.

Title on the cover

A switch under More. On, the article's title is laid over the picture. Off, the picture stands alone and the title appears only in your CMS.

Where images live

They are made when the article is written and kept on your own account, then sent to your CMS with the article.

If images are missing from a published post, your CMS is probably refusing them. The webhook guide in connecting where it publishes covers what an endpoint has to do to accept them.

Where to go next

The day page and the editor is where you see a cover before it goes anywhere.