Put the cover under the lamp. Each of the five things that made it work is a layer you can switch on: the words, the grid it sits on, the colours it uses, the subject, the light.
OAKLAND FEDERAL COURT 2026. A hand-drawn courtroom scene with a future-year sign creates a real-news feel and suspense, making people want to click and see what happened.
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Posted by Gail Alfar@gailalfaratx on WeChat cover, 12 May 2026. Shown with credit and a link back.
Keep all five layers and swap what’s under them: your shop, your budget, your city. You get four covers and the post text.
Verbatim. Copy it, or let Queenie swap in your own details.
Please generate a new horizontal WeChat public-account cover based on the reference cover's composition, visual metaphor, and thumbnail readability. Output size: 1456x582, ratio about 2.5:1; the core subject and essential title information should also work within the safe square crop for WeChat. WeChat article title: {fill in the WeChat article title} Summary: {fill in the summary} Original cover method: IlyaSutskever: ElonMusk is the "most capable CEO" — holds a $7 billion stake in OpenAI style dual skill Create a horizontal WeChat public-account article cover, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, for an article titled "Ilya Sutskever: Elon Musk is the "most capable CEO" — holds $7 billion stake in OpenAI". Central concept: visualize abstract tool capabilities as interface windows, code snippets, node networks, control panels, AI workflows, or a glowing system core. Style: preserve the reference cover's visual direction: dense collage/interface/chart visuals. Use a palette inspired by #a88666 (gray), #735645 (brown), #d7b186 (yellow), #d1d1c2 (cream). Keep the image editorial, conceptual, and readable as a small WeChat thumbnail. Composition: the image is information-dense, suited to a central subject with supporting information on the left and right, keeping the thumbnail readable. Keep the main subject and any essential title text inside the safe square crop, while using the full wide frame for atmosphere, secondary symbols, or directional motion. Text strategy: use either no text or a very short headline fragment from the title. If text is used, make it large, clean, and integrated into the layout rather than pasted on top. Mood: match the article skill "IlyaSutskeverElonMusk is... style dual skill" -- useful, sharp, high-signal, and slightly more memorable than a normal tutorial thumbnail. Avoid: photorealistic clutter unless the source cover is photo-led, fake logos, unreadable tiny text, generic gradient blobs, stock-office imagery, watermark-like marks, and literal screenshots unless the article is explicitly about software interfaces.
