The publisher will provide cover art for your story to make it visually appealing to readers. Some authors want to create or use their own covers, but not many publishers allow this. For starters, the publisher needs to be sure that the images used in the cover are licensed and available. You can’t just grab any picture you find online and use it as a cover because someone owns the copyright to that image, and using it without permission can cause a lot of headaches.
So publishers usually create cover art “in house,” meaning they have an artist who will be commissioned to make your cover. This might be someone who will draw the cover based on your description of what you’d like to see on the front, but most times small and electronic publishers use a program like Adobe Photoshop to modify
