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Old TV Screen Cover

A cover that lives on the face of an old television — the artwork painted onto curved glass rather than pasted behind it, and the set filling the sheet instead of floating on black. Six fields.

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ExamplesOne cover · one tube · everything bowed
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Harbour Row

We made two examples: a violet-to-coral screen in a cream cabinet and a teal-to-amber one in black. They are sets from different decades, but in both every horizontal line in the picture bends to follow the glass.

The artwork lives on the curved glass: the title sits on an arc, the bottom row follows the screen's lower edge, and a single diagonal sheen crosses bezel and picture alike. The television fills the format instead of floating on black bands. The maker's name on the set is invented and differs from your cover's title.

Generated for this library

Input
  Cover for  Vibary's pattern library, volume one
  Title      VIBE LIBRARY
  Bottom     vibary.ai · volume one · 2026
  Colours    deep violet above, hot coral below
  Shape      a heavy blocky arrow pointing up, only its top half
             showing above the words
  Set        scuffed cream-grey plastic, dust in the seams, a
             hairline crack at one corner

Returned   1 cover · 4:5 · the set bled off both sides

bend       the title's baseline arcs downward at the centre; the
           bottom row curves with the screen's lower edge; the
           arrow's horizontals bow with them
glass      one soft diagonal band crossing bezel and screen alike,
           ignoring what is under it, and one hard highlight where
           the curve is tightest
glow       the cream type and the yellow shape bloom a little past
           their own edges; the violet does not
field      violet to coral, softened, no hard join; corners dropping
           into shadow
cabinet    worn plastic filling the frame edge to edge, control
           strip and speaker grille below the screen
SKILL.mdthe whole thing, as you would paste it© vibary.ai

You fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.

  1. 1What this is a cover for
  2. 2The title on screen
  3. 3The three lines along the bottom
  4. 4The two screen colours
  5. 5The shape behind the title
  6. 6The set

Old TV Screen Cover

What this makes

A cover that lives on the face of an old television — the artwork painted onto curved glass rather than pasted behind it, and the set filling the sheet instead of floating on black. Six fields.

The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.

How to use it

  1. Copy the whole template with the button above.
  2. Replace the six FIELDS lines. The set field is where the decade comes from — name the wear, not the year.
  3. Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the cover.
  4. Before shipping, lay a straight edge along the title's baseline. If it touches at both ends and in the middle, the picture did not bend and the run needs doing again.

What you swap

What this is a cover for
Vibary's pattern library, volume one
The title on screen
VIBE LIBRARY
The three lines along the bottom
vibary.ai · volume one · 2026
The two screen colours
deep violet above, hot coral below
The shape behind the title
a heavy blocky arrow pointing up, only its top half showing above the words
The set
scuffed cream-grey plastic, dust in the seams, a hairline crack at one corner

Before it runs

  • A short title. It has to survive being bent, and a long line loses its arc to its own length.
  • Two colours that separate at a distance. The field is a gradient between them, and two neighbouring hues turn into one muddy wash on a glowing screen.
  • Acceptance that the artwork will not look flat-clean. That is the point — a CRT cover that reads as crisp print is a window, not a tube.

When to reach for it

When a record, a portfolio or a season needs a cover with a decade attached to it. Templates in this style describe the cabinet in loving detail and then let the artwork sit on it dead flat, which is the difference between a picture on a tube and a picture in a window.

What changes

  • One cover shot on the face of a worn CRT: bulging glass, a dusty cabinet, a control strip, and a Y2K colour field inside it.
  • Every horizontal in the artwork bows to follow the glass, which is the whole illusion and the part these templates leave out.
  • The set bleeds off the sheet rather than floating on a black field, so the result is a cover and not a photograph of a television.
  • One reflection belonging to the room — crossing the glass and ignoring what is under it — plus a phosphor bloom that only the light colours emit.
  • A fixed interior: two-colour field, one bold shape half-swallowed by the title, three small texts along the bottom.

Pairs with