The leaving party
The cover of a colleague who is leaving, with a cover line that sums up their career in the team, printed and signed by everyone: thirty-eight credits and a keepsake that gets framed.
Make a magazine cover with your photo and AI
Your photo becomes a magazine cover with title, cover line and issue number, then a photo of the magazine on a café table. Workflow visible here, no account needed.
Real workflow: a photo from the front, the magazine cover with its studio portrait and three lines of text, then the printed magazine on a café table. Both images come from the demo, the second starts from the first.
At a glance
- You provide
- 1 photo · a text or a brief
- What the workflow produces
- 2 images in 3:4, 4:3
- Canvas structure
- 6 nodes wired by 4 connections
- Models wired in
- Nano Banana Pro
- Cost of one full run
- about 38 credits, roughly $0.46
- Account
- The demo is visible without an account; generating requires a free account, trial credits included
Being on a magazine cover is a colleague's leaving gift, a promotion announcement, a birthday joke or the front of a portfolio. This workflow does it in two images: your photo becomes a studio portrait on a cover, with the magazine title, a cover line and an issue number, then the same cover comes back printed, lying on a café table.
The first hard part is the text. A cover is full of words, and an image model happily invents them: subtitles, barcode, price. Here there are only three texts, written between quotes, with a ban on writing anything else, the rule learned on the trading card.
The second is the mockup's fidelity: the magazine photo starts from the rendered cover, wired into its image port, and its prompt forbids redrawing it. The magazine title is invented, because a real title is a trademark. Both images cost thirty-eight credits.
Actual renders from the demo
These are the files of the workflow above, exactly as the models produced them, unretouched. The starting point is shown when there is one.
Starting point
Render
Who it is for
Colleagues, families, freelancers and brands who want a magazine cover of themselves, without a designer.
Which files to provide
A sharp photo from the front of a single person, plus the invented magazine title, a cover line and an issue number.
How it works
- 1
Give a sharp photo from the front
The cover portrait is recomposed in a studio, but it keeps your face: a blurry photo, a profile or sunglasses put someone else on the cover.
- 2
Invent the magazine title
A short word in capitals that is not a real magazine's name. That is a trademark, and a fake cover of a real title reads like fake news.
- 3
Keep it to three texts
The title, one cover line, one issue number. Every extra line is a chance of a typo, and a cover that breathes reads better as a thumbnail than a crowded one.
- 4
Wire the cover into the magazine photo
The image port of the second node receives the cover, and its prompt says "exactly the reference image". Compare: if a letter changes, redo the magazine photo, not the cover.
Variations and use cases
The same canvas, tuned for different needs: each variation is two or three lines of prompt away.
The promotion announcement
A new director or partner announced on a cover on the intranet or LinkedIn: far more noticed than a profile photo and a paragraph of text.
The birthday that makes people laugh
A cover line that fits the person, "the man who never missed a drink", and the cover becomes the invitation card or the printed cake topper.
A portfolio cover
A photographer, a coach or a consultant opens their presentation deck with their own cover: the positioning and the tone read in a second.
A team issue
Every member gets a cover with the same magazine title and the same framing, and the series works as a team page for a careers site or an offsite.
A brand cover
A product or a founder on the cover of an invented magazine for a launch, with the poster for the large format version in the shop.
Common mistakes
Using a real magazine's title
It is a trademark, and a doctored cover of a real title spreads like misinformation. Invent a title, the cover will be no less convincing.
Writing six cover lines
Every extra line is a chance of a typo and one more text to read as a thumbnail. Three texts are enough to make a cover, and it breathes.
Forgetting to forbid the rest
Without a ban, the cover gets a barcode, a price, a date and invented subtitles. Title, cover line, issue number, and nothing else.
Redoing the magazine photo from free text
Without the cover as a reference, the magazine on the table carries another cover, pretty and false. The cable between the two nodes is the whole workflow.
Recommended models
Nano Banana Pro
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Seedream 5 ProFrequently asked questions
Can it be printed?
Yes: the cover comes out in 2K at 3:4, enough for a magazine sized print at an online printer. For a poster, run it through the sharpener.
Can I change the cover style?
Yes, one sentence of the prompt: studio portrait on a teal background here, but black and white, fashion, sport or business work too. Keep the three texts between quotes, the rest is up to you.
Can I make someone else's cover?
With their consent, yes: it is a much loved gift for a farewell or a birthday. Never make the cover of someone who did not ask for it, nor of a public figure.
How much do the cover and the magazine photo cost?
Thirty-eight credits, nineteen per image on Nano Banana Pro. A second cover with another cover line costs nineteen more credits.
Why Nano Banana Pro?
Because it keeps a face from a reference photo, writes short text without mistakes on a dark background and faithfully reproduces an image it is given: the three things this workflow asks for.
Is the text always right?
On the demo, all three texts are exact on the cover and on the magazine photo. A long or accented title can go wrong: proofread before printing.
What output format?
The cover at 3:4, the magazine photo at 4:3, both in 2K. A taller format, closer to a real magazine, can be asked for in the prompt.
Can I post it on social media?
Yes, that is what it is for. Keep an invented magazine title and a cover line that does not read like real news, especially if the person on the cover is not you.
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