Preview a Chapter and Publish It

TL;DR. Open preview and scroll the chapter. Publish from the chapter menu only after every panel has an image. A published chapter shows as published. Unpublish sets it back to draft. The project stays private until you share it.

Open previewPreview reads the comic vertically. It can load the next chapter as you scroll. Panels without images show as not yet drawn. A project with no chapters sends you back to add one.

Finish the imagesPublish checks that every panel in the chapter has a comic image. If any frame is empty, the menu explains that and does not publish. Generate, upload, or delete the empty frame first.

Publish the chapterChoose publish on the chapter menu. The chapter status becomes published, and the list marks it. That is the chapter readers can be shown, and the chapter export-video requires.

Unpublish when it should go backUnpublish returns the chapter to draft. The images stay. It is no longer a published chapter for share, which requires at least one published chapter.

Draft, published, shared

These are three different states. A draft chapter is yours. A published chapter has cleared the “every panel has an image” check and can be used by share and by video export. A share is a further action: the comic still needs a cover, a published chapter, and enough images, and you choose to share it.

Projects stay private until that share. Publishing a chapter does not put the book on Explore by itself.

Read it like a reader first

Preview stacks the images in order and can expand the source prose if you want the script beside the scroll.
Empty images are visible in preview. They also block publish.
The end of the scroll tells you when every loaded chapter has been read.
If the pipeline banner says the chapter is done, you can add the next chapter or publish this one.

Publish is reversible. Delete is not. Unpublish when the chapter should leave the reader path. Delete only when the chapter itself should disappear.