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Pick a template
Add your photo, your title and your name. You choose colours and font within the template. Want yourself free of the background? Leaf removes it.
NewRelease visuals by SoundSprout
Your photo. Our templates.
Leaf is the cover tool for artists who are not designers. Templates with fixed spots for your photo and your text, so it always works. And that one cover gives you your whole promo set.
Making your cover is free. You log in with your SoundSprout account.
- 01Pick a template
- 02Add your photo
- 03Download your kit
Checked against distributor requirements
How it works
You design once.
No blank canvas, and no six separate files you line up by hand.
02
Leaf makes the set
Every format has its own composition in the template. Photo, title and colours move along, so a story is not a stretched cover.
03
Export and move on
Your cover goes to your release in SoundSprout and ticks that item off your checklist. Download the promo set file by file or as one zip.
Formats
Six files, one style.
This is what Leaf makes from one cover. The sizes are what the platforms ask for. The promo formats get a pre-save version with your release date and an out-now version.
Cover
3000 x 3000 px, JPGFor your distributor and the streaming services. No promo text.
Portrait post
1080 x 1350 pxFor the Instagram and Facebook feed.
Story
1080 x 1920 pxFor stories and TikTok, with room for pre-save or out now.
Square post
1080 x 1080 pxFor Instagram and Facebook.
YouTube thumbnail
1280 x 720 pxFor your video, visualizer or lyric video.
Spotify header
2660 x 1140 pxThe header image of your artist profile. No text, as Spotify asks.
Example: the Night current template, rendered by Leaf.
Distributor check
See what your distributor rejects before you upload.
DistroKid and the streaming services reject covers with a URL, an @handle or promo text like "out now". A rejected cover has to be delivered again, and that can delay your release. Leaf reads the text on your cover and explains what is wrong.
Leaf looks for
- Web addresses and links
- @handles and email addresses
- Promo text like out now, new single, pre-save or link in bio
- Names of streaming services and socials
- Prices and physical formats like CD or vinyl
- A title or artist name that does not match your release
Leaf warns, you decide. Nothing gets blocked silently. On your Spotify header Leaf warns about any text: Spotify allows no text and no promotion there.
Check of your cover
Example
"OUT NOW"Promo text. Distributors reject this on a cover. Put it in your posts and story.
"@kinnaj"A handle. It is not allowed on a cover; link your profile in your promo.
Title and artist match your release.
Thumbnail preview
This is how small your listener sees it.
In a playlist or search result your cover is a small square next to your title. Leaf shows your cover at 64 and at 300 pixels, like in a streaming app. You see right away whether your title is still readable and your photo holds up.
300 px
After the export
Your cover ends up where it belongs.
In your release in SoundSprout
Leaf puts the final cover on your release in the hub at app.soundsprout.nl and ticks off the cover on your release checklist. Other SoundSprout tools pick it up from there.
On to Petal
Want a Spotify Canvas, the short loop behind your track? From Leaf you open Petal with your release attached; Petal picks up your cover itself.
Remove the background
Leaf removes the background from your photo, so you can place yourself on a colour or texture from the template.
Open licence fonts
Every font in Leaf is under the SIL Open Font License. You can use them on your cover and in your promo, commercially too.
Pricing
Your cover is free.
Making and exporting your cover costs nothing, without a watermark. You pay for the promo set: per release, or one year for all your releases. There is no monthly plan.
Free
Your cover, ready for your distributor.
€0
No payment details needed
- Cover editor with the basic templates
- Cover export 3000 x 3000 without watermark
- Distributor check
- Preview at 64 and 300 px
- Cover to your release in SoundSprout
Release kit
Everything for one release.
€9
per release
One-off. Leaf asks which release.
- Everything in Free
- All templates for this release
- The full promo set: posts, story, thumbnail and Spotify header
- Stays editable, also after your release
Leaf Pro
For artists who release more often.
€79
per year
Paid once a year. No monthly plan, does not renew by itself.
- Everything in the release kit
- Unlimited releases
- All templates, including new drops
- Brand kit: your colours, fonts and logo
- Later: AI backgrounds with a monthly credit
SoundSprout members
All includedLeaf is part of your package.
Included
With the Sprout and Forest packages
- Everything in Leaf Pro
- Plus the marketing team and the tools of your package
- No separate purchase: logging in is enough
Making and exporting your cover is free in every version, without a watermark. What you have rendered stays downloadable, also when your Pro year ends.
FAQ
Questions artists ask us
What does Leaf cost?
Making and exporting your cover is free, with the basic templates and the distributor check, without a watermark. A release kit costs €9 one-off and gives you all templates and the full promo set for that one release. Leaf Pro costs €79 a year and covers all your releases. For SoundSprout members with Sprout or Forest everything is included. All prices include VAT.
Can I use the fonts commercially?
Yes. Every font in Leaf is under the SIL Open Font License, an open licence. You can use them on your cover and in your promo, also for music you sell or stream.
Who owns my photos?
You do. You upload them to make your cover and your promo. They are kept in protected storage that only opens through your own account, and ownership stays with you. Do only use photos you hold the rights to; your distributor asks for that too.
Why does Leaf warn about text on my cover?
DistroKid and the streaming services reject covers with URLs, @handles, email addresses, prices or promo text like "out now". A rejected cover has to be delivered again, and that can delay your release. Leaf explains what it sees; you decide whether to change it.
Which formats does Leaf make?
The cover at 3000 x 3000 px, a square post (1080 x 1080), a portrait post (1080 x 1350), a story (1080 x 1920), a YouTube thumbnail (1280 x 720) and a Spotify header (2660 x 1140). Every format has its own composition in the template.
Where does my cover end up?
On your release in the SoundSprout hub, where it ticks off the cover item on your release checklist. You also download it yourself, to upload to your distributor.
Start with your cover
Your next release, in one style.
You log in with your SoundSprout account.