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
Use casesEditing together with collaborative sessions (no upload)
When two people genuinely need to edit together, use peer-to-peer collaborative sessions built on WebRTC with a shared session ID — without routing images through a server.
5 min · IntermediateStart
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
Use casesAssemble a client intake packet: merge, fill, sign, protect
Build a complete client intake packet in Novus PDF Studio end to end: merge the separate forms at /tools, organize and rotate the pages, fill and sign every field in the editor, stamp page numbers, and lock the finished document with an AES-256 password before you send it.
9 min · IntermediateStart
Use casesFill and sign invoices and receipts
Finish an invoice or receipt in Novus PDF Studio: upload the document, place number and date-style fields for amounts and dates, add text fields for line items and notes, draw a signature where the record needs one, and export a clean copy while the original stays untouched.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesPrepare a form for multiple signatures and witnesses
Set up a Novus PDF Studio form that needs more than one signature, such as two parties plus a witness, by placing a labeled signature field and a date beside each signer, letting everyone draw their own visual mark, and routing a flattened copy to each in turn.
9 min · IntermediateStart
Use casesFill and sign a scanned paper form
Turn a photographed or scanned paper form into a finished document in Novus PDF Studio: capture the page well, import it as a PDF, align fields by hand over the printed lines, draw a signature, and export a flattened copy that reads like ink on the page.
10 min · IntermediateStart
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 casesExport TIFF and BMP for print and archival
Export to TIFF for print shops, scanning, and long-term archives, and to BMP for the legacy tools that still demand it, confirming the exact route in /conversions, respecting the 100 MB and 80 megapixel source limits, and remembering that BMP flattens transparency onto white.
8 min · IntermediateStart
Use casesExport TGA for game engines and art tools
Convert a PNG or another supported source image to a validated TGA for game engines and art tools in Novus Convert, confirming the route in /conversions and respecting the local image limits and the validation gate.
8 min · IntermediateStart
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
Use casesConvert camera RAW photos: CR2, NEF & ARW to JPG, PNG & TIFF
Decode camera RAW files — Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, and more — into shareable JPG, PNG, or TIFF in Novus Convert, entirely in the browser, with each result validated before it downloads.
8 min · IntermediateStart
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, how to use it alongside the text, and an honest account of its current limited availability.
7 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
