Tutorials
Learn the Novus apps
Core, step-by-step guidance for the tools, grouped by app and written to stand on its own. Each app has a deeper library inside the product itself; these are the essentials. For the full reference see the documentation, and for the stories behind the builds, the product blog.
NSS Background Remover
Use casesPrepping product photos for Amazon, Etsy, and Shopify
A practical workflow for turning raw product shots into clean, marketplace-ready images: pure-white or transparent backgrounds, consistent sizing, and compressed files, across a single product or a whole set.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesMaking transparent logos and graphics
Turn a logo on a solid or busy background into a clean transparent PNG that drops onto any color: the right mode, edge refinement for crisp type, and an export that won’t halo.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Visualizers
Use casesMaking a vertical visualizer for TikTok, Reels & Shorts
A focused workflow for short-form vertical video: pick an engine and mode that reads at 9:16, keep the motion centered and punchy, add captions, and export with the TikTok/Reels preset.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesCreating a Spotify Canvas loop
Make a short, seamless looping visual for Spotify Canvas: a vertical clip that reads at a glance, loops cleanly, and uses the Spotify Canvas export preset.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesMaking a lyric video
Turn a track into a word-synced lyric video: use on-device AI captions for the transcript, fix per-word timing so lines land with the vocal, set a readable look, and export. Plus when to reach for the Lyric Video Creator.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSharing your work on the Novus Visualizers community feed
Browse the public community feed, then sign in to like, save, and post your own visualizers, all copyright-free, so publishing never trades away ownership of your exports.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesBuilding an audience with Creator Studio
Use the Creators hub and Creator Studio to share visualizers, build a public body of work, and grow an audience, with an honest read on what the young creator network can and cannot do yet.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Novus PDF Studio
Novus Convert
Use casesMake a favicon: convert a PNG to an ICO
Turn a square, transparent PNG into a website favicon by converting it to ICO in Novus Convert, confirming the route in /conversions and letting validation prove the file before you place favicon.ico at your site root.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesKeep files private: local processing & the validation gate
A hands-on tour of how Novus Convert keeps files private: active conversion runs in your browser memory on your device, signatures rather than filenames decide handling, and a validation gate withholds every download until the real result passes a signature, container, or decodability check.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTroubleshoot failed conversions in Novus Convert
A calm, ordered way through any failed row: read what the validation gate is telling you, unmask renamed and unsupported files, work within the size limits, split batches that strain browser memory, and file a bug report that actually helps.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Learn
Use casesSave topics to your local library in Novus Learn
Build a personal library of topics in Novus Learn without an account: save a source-grounded page to return to later, reopen it exactly as you left it, and remove it when you are done, all stored locally in your browser, with no tracking and nothing synced to a server.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesAppearance, motion, and accessibility in Novus Learn
Tune Novus Learn to how you read: switch between light and dark themes, reduce motion for calmer pages, and turn on the accessibility controls that make long source-grounded topics comfortable, with a clear sense of who each setting is really for.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesRead structure with Visual Studio in Novus Learn
Visual Studio turns a source into a picture you can read, visuals whose shape comes from the underlying material rather than decoration bolted on afterward. This guide covers what it is for, the diagram types it renders, presentation mode, and how to read a visual the way you read a citation.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesUpload your own material into Novus Learn
The /upload surface takes PDF, EPUB, Word, plain text, and Markdown and turns them into cited study material, parsed and stored only in your browser, with no account and no server copy.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTurn a project into a printable lesson with the Teacher Hub
The Teacher Hub at /teachers converts any Novus Learn project into a printable lesson (objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and citations) straight from the browser.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesFind a career direction with the Novus Learn matcher
Use the Novus Learn career matcher end to end: pick the quick, full, or career-change questionnaire, read the shortlist against 565 occupation profiles in 20 families, open a profile properly, and verify every suggestion against public labour-market data before you act on it.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesPractise for a real job aptitude test with Novus Learn
Prepare for a gated hiring assessment using the 376 career aptitude practice suites in Novus Learn: find the right suite by sector or by skill construct, practise timed, review every explanation, and know when familiarity has plateaued and you should stop.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesCognitive skills, the Reasoning Challenge, and puzzles in Novus Learn
Work through the reasoning half of Novus Learn: 2,200 authored cognitive questions across 22 construct banks, a Reasoning Challenge with published methodology that is deliberately not an IQ test, and a 200-puzzle catalogue built on a real difficulty ladder.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesWork through the Novus Learn JavaScript course, zero to developer
A walkthrough of the authored JavaScript curriculum in Novus Learn: 12 modules and 77 lessons in a fixed teaching order, 65 of them carrying runnable graded exercises, taught in the product's own words rather than as a list of links to documentation.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Examples
Use casesTest a background remover with the right sample images
A background remover is only as good as the hardest image you test it on. This guide covers which sample images from Novus Examples genuinely stress a cutout (solid versus busy backgrounds, hair and edge detail, transparency and grayscale) and how to run them through the NSS Background Remover.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSample file types explained: what each sample is for
A reference for the sample variants in Novus Examples that are easy to misread: transparent versus opaque, grayscale versus color, CMYK versus sRGB, tiny versus oversized images, and the deliberate zero-byte, corrupt, and wrong-extension files built for error-handling tests.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTest with clean and noisy pairs
Paired fixtures (clean and noisy, colour and greyscale, source and scanned) differ in exactly one property, which is what makes a before/after test mean something.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesBuild an OBS scene from a broadcast template
The 48 templates in the four broadcast categories each ship an OBS-compatible scene collection: a JSON file you import to get a scene already wired to the overlay you just downloaded. This guide covers downloading the pair, importing, and the one relink step OBS requires, and why it cannot be avoided.
7 min · BeginnerStart