Hey, everyone!
How much time does it take to have your personal background to be approved?
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It depends tbh . Sometimes it can be 20 mins other times it can take a few days .
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Ah ok! I uploaded mine yesterday so I got worried.
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Thanks
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It all depends. Sometimes itāll take a day, two days, or three days. Sometimes itāll get approved within a day.
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Thank you
Np it should get approved soon .
Another thing is when theirs contests like the Open Mic , Gaming , Unexpected love contests bg and ol are probably going to be a bit slow getting approved.
It took a few days for me, but like everyone else is saying, it depends. Iām guessing it depends on when you upload your photos for approval. : )
It normally takes at least a few days to a week for my backgrounds to get approved but my overlays tend to get approved much quicker, normally within the same day (sometimes even just a few minutes after Iāve uploaded them).
Story covers tend to be reviewed within a day or two for me but sometimes they take longer.
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Oddly backgrounds and cover art always take so much longer to be approved, compared to overlays.
Like, I uploaded a couple of backgrounds a few days agoā¦ and they have yet to be reviewed and approved. But I uploaded a couple of overlays about an hour ago and theyāve been approved already. 
Their process is very strange.
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Mine are more like interiors bedrooms, conference rooms, living rooms, kitchens, exteriors of houses, cities, and exteriors with cars on them. so Iām still waiting.
Thank you, guys
Yeah I saw that too 
I wrongly uploaded my background as overlays and they got approved very quickly and now Iām getting impatient
Well, actually, you could use the overlays as temporary backgrounds if you really wanted to publish straight away and then switch them out later (if you wanted to) once the backgrounds get approved. I donāt personally see much point to that though but itās an option.
Even though your backgrounds are still in review, at least they can still be used in previews so you can continue to write your story. (:
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I tried and I didnāt know how to do that so I gave up
I find it much easier to have the overlay the exact same size as the background (I sometimes use procreate for things like that and also the image size app), so that way when you insert it into the script, you donāt need to scale or shift it.
Idk what platform youāre on, but if youāre on iOS, you can just download the background you want as an overlay, insert it into the image size app (its free unlike procreate) and then add in what size you want the picture to become.
640x1136 is one zone.
1280x1136 is two zones.
1920x1136 is three zones.
In the settings section, which is via the gear icon, you can switch āOutput Formatā from JPEG to HEIC and make sure the toggle for āKeep PNG Formatā is turned on.
And from there you can download the resized version and upload it to your portal! (:
Or you could just use a format converter site, resize site and a compression site if your overlay ends up being over 1MB but yeah. I find the app pretty handy for choosing PNG and determining the dimensions I want in one place.
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Thanks but for now Iāll just wait because Iām a beginner at writing an episode story and Iām still familiarizing myself with the coding and all and Iām still in the middle of a chapter and I still havenāt a cover for my story and I donāt know how to get one for free.
Thatās okay. Thatās what a lot of us on the forums are here for - to ask for help and to provide help.
There are shops here on the forums where you can submit a form if you like their work and theyāll make and edit covers for you to use.
Some shops:
You might need to ask Ellie if you can go on a wait list for a cover or something for this shop. 
You might also need to ask Kiki if you can go on a wait list for a cover, but you canāt ask her for the same cover as another shop and vice versa.
You could one shop to do your small cover and the other to do your large cover though if you wanted.
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whatās the difference between a large one and a short one?
Takes a few days for me
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Using your story @Abimations4 as an example + a little promo lol. 
So, each story has two covers.
A small cover:
This cover is the first cover readers see when going through stories or shelves.
And a large cover:
This cover appears when the reader presses on the story to see what itās about and/or open the story.
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