Gradual can generate a cover image for an event from the event’s own details and a style reference you choose, so you do not have to find, crop and size one yourself.
This feature is enabled per community. If you do not see it on your events, contact Gradual support.
Who can use it
Anyone who can edit an event can generate a cover image for it, from the main dashboard, a club dashboard or a collaborator dashboard.
Creating and managing cover templates is limited to community admins.
Generating a cover image
Open the event you want a cover image for and go to Event Setup → General Info. The Cover Image field is in the right-hand column.
Select Generate with AI, beside Upload, to open the AI Cover Generator.
Under 1. Content Display, check what will appear on the cover. The event title and date are filled in from the event, and you can edit them here. Include Subtitle writes a subtitle for you — select Auto for another one, or rewrite it yourself, up to 200 characters. Use the checkboxes to choose whether the date, subtitle and speakers appear. If the event has no speakers yet, Include Speakers is unavailable and an Add Speaker link takes you to add them.
Under 2. Style Reference, choose what the cover should look like. Use one of your community’s cover templates, or choose One-time reference to upload an image used only for this cover. Only one style reference can be active at a time. Each template shows how many speaker avatars it is designed for.
Selecting a template opens its preview, where you choose an AI Generation Rule and select Use this template. The rule you chose then appears on that template’s card.
Select Generate with AI. Your remaining quota is shown beside the button. While it is running you can stop it, and Start Over clears what you have set up, asking you to confirm first.
Review the result under Preview Generation. Gradual notes that AI can make mistakes and asks you to review the image before applying it. Use the Create and History tabs to move between the new image and the ones you generated earlier.
Select Apply Generated Cover. It fills in the Cover Image field as an unsaved change — save the event to keep it. If you navigate away with unsaved changes, Gradual warns you first.
Choosing how closely to follow a template
When you select a template, its AI Generation Rule sets how closely the generated image follows it:
Strict keeps the colors, layout and patterns exactly as the template, replacing only the text and speaker avatars.
Adaptive may adjust the colors, but keeps the template’s overall style and layout.
Your generation quota
Each community has a quota of image generations, shown beside the Generate with AI button. What uses one:
A generation that finishes successfully uses one
A generation you stop part-way uses one
A generation that fails does not
Applying an image from your history does not
Deleting an image from your history does not give the generation back.
When your quota reaches zero, the generator opens on History and you cannot generate new images. You can still apply any image you have already generated.
History
Every image you generate is saved automatically, so you do not need to apply one straight away. History is kept per event, so each event shows only its own images.
The image currently used as the event’s cover is marked. It cannot be deleted while it is in use — change the cover first. Deleting any other image asks you to confirm.
Cover templates
Community admins can set up cover templates so everyone generating an image works from the same look. Templates can be added, edited and deleted, and each one shows its details so you can tell them apart.
A community can have up to 30 cover templates.