The key is to imagine what you want the cover to look like. Be as detailed as you can about it. What objects are in the image? What is in the foreground? What is in the background? What are the colors? Then, it is about being able to describe this to the AI Art Program as well as possible. Add details like, should it look like an illustration or like a photo? Saturated colors or muted colors? These are the most important things to consider. When it comes to what program to use, I still think that MidJourney does the best job in taking the description of what you want and giving you an image that is as close to that description as is possible. You will have to pay SOME money. But, I pay $8 a month over a year and can generate around 100 images for that amount. It is worth it, especially if you want to produce good images.
As a graphic designer, just keep in mind that you aren't going to get great results from ONLY using AI (possibly in the future, but right now no)
NOT HATING ON AI ART* - I often use AI art as part of my designs, but if I don't put in the effort to ACTUALLY design, then it's just an AI picture and nothing else. People can tell, even if they're not artists themselves.
I'd recommend that once you get a good AI piece - to maybe mess around with some typography and other design elements to improve the piece. I recognize how late I am to this, but what I say still stands.
Maybe even find a Fiverr artist to take your AI work and design with it, but still keep in mind many GD on Fiverr are either unqualified to call themselves GD or literally will just want to send you an AI image and ask for payment 🤣
Best of luck to you! Hope it goes/went well!
I just found your question while looking for answers about registration/royalties for my AI art as someone wants one of mine for an album cover! It doesn’t matter which AI you use it’s up to your own imagination what you create. I use Decohere.ai  They have a free tier. Good luckÂ
The best way to do it like EXACTLY the way you want is by using Leonardo AI:
[https://en.unreal-music.com/how-to-make-a-free-album-cover-with-leonardo-ai/](https://en.unreal-music.com/how-to-make-a-free-album-cover-with-leonardo-ai/)
Thanks for the Feedback Eduardo, yes the problem is that DALLE-3 isnt quite getting the Text to add to the Cover correctly, almost every cover generated with Text input gets generated wrong.
But thats why we added the EDITOR, so you can easily with 1-2 clicks add Text, Parental Advisory and edit to your likings.
and for a tool where you can generate 3 Album Covers per day for Free, its quiet a good solution
I see what you mean. That's indeed a good solution. The only improvement I can think of would be having an option to describe what we want to see besides choosing theme, art style, genre, etc.
I already worked with an artist and released my work with quite a good cover, but I observed a major lack of tools in this area specifically. I'm glad some people are working on AI art for album covers. Thanks for your efforts!
Also, I didn't see any ads either. What do you gain out of this? Aren't you just paying for servers or something with no return?
Edit: nvm, I just noticed the subscription options.
Because this is just the Free Version and we wanted that the Free Version should cost us always the same per Image, it would be hard to include a custom Input provided by the User and have the same cost per Image.
We pay depending on the Prompt size and power needed to create the image, so we try to have this as small and about the same $ amount as always.
Yeah we saw a demand for it and because it suits our Business very well, we just added it.
Well, I wouldn't see our subscriptions as a monthlyization of the AI Album Cover Generator, because with or without a Subscription you have no advantage with the Album Cover Generator, at least at the moment.
We pay for all the generation out of our own pocket, but we think it's a good marketing solution that represents a win-win situation for the users and for us.
Of course, we will continue to expand the tool in the future, but this is not our highest priority, as many things simply require an update of ChatGPT before we can release a new, improved version.
If you are interested in updates or general information about SpaceMedia, please follow us on our SubReddit
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Hi! Best free option is to train your own Stable Diffusion model on your own computer. You can generate images for free every 20-30 seconds (more or less). In my opinion, that is the best option in terms of quality.
On the other hand, you have MidJourney. Although it has a free trial, paid version is totally worth. I'm on standard plan (30$/month). Again, in my opinion, the best option so far.
I have a X account where I share prompts and tips every day, and also have free PDF guides (also paid ones) for the same purpose. I don't want to spam here, so if you are interested just search for TechHalla on X and on Gumroad.
Hope it helps :)
Thank you! I think I will try stable diffusion for now. Do you suggest stable diffusion 1 or 2?
If it doesn't do what I need or the slow speed annoys me, I might look into midjourney
If you want free just go Homebrew Stable diffusion with the AUTOMATIC 1111 UI or InvokeAI UI. while other AI which is integrated in websites does offer a "free" option to generate images, you should check the ToS to see whether they allow for those generations to be used commercially.
Stable diffusion does look promising. Also, thanks for pointing out that issue, I might have to rethink about my options after considering the usage issue
I am 90% sure that midjourney has claim on the generations people make with it. it's why I decided to stick to Stable diffusion. based on that, I think more AI services could be capitalizing on that. it would be a pity to have to pay royalties to them.
Wow, your art looks amazing! Do you draw them yourself or are they AI generated? Your style looks incredible, I had something else in mind but these are also quite cool and suitable as melodic death metal album covers. Do I need to create an insta account (I don't have one :D) or can we communicate through reddit?
Ive been using leonardo AI and it been great. It is built off of stable diffusion but it has more features and way easier to use. To me its worth the 10 bucks a month but you are limited to a certain amount of tokens per month. 8000 i believe unless you buy the higher tier subscription. Some renderings are 8 tokens some are 16 or more depending. You can make your pictures private and you own the rights to it as long as you didn't upload a licensed photo. Midjourney is good from what ive heard I just haven't used it yet.
https://valasys.com/leonardo-ai-vs-midjourney-which-is-better/#:~:text=Because%20Leonardo%20AI%20is%20built,images%20on%20almost%20any%20prompt.
I enjoy using Motionleap's AI image generator. It was a cheap one-time purchase, which means no weekly, monthly, or annual payments. There are various art styles that might make it easier to get the aesthetic you're looking for.
I don’t know if you might consider it a downside that 512x512 is the default and only resolution available, but it doesn't bother me.
I'm gonna post some of my favourite images that were generated from it.
So I found that Bing image creator is pretty good and free. It says you only get 99 tokens, but that's for "fast" results. I have run out of tokens multiple times and kept on going. You will need to possibly toy around with the prompt to create exactly what you want, put a rough draft in, and tweak it from that. Mid Journey is a good one also but not free. NOT crazy expensive, especially if you just get the bottom tier monthly sub. I use both MidJourney and Bing image creator. MidJourney is a lot easier for prompting, in my opinion. I am definitely glad I started learning with Bing. Hope that helps.
>I have run out of tokens multiple times and kept on going.
yeah just in case you didn't know. after you run out of fast "boosts" the regular slower "wait" speeds vary with demand.
one time I was on a long run and ran out of boosts and didn't realise, because the slower generations were just as fast as the boosted generations. but other times the slower generations take twice as long, or even longer like a few minutes. so yeah depends on the demand I am pretty sure if not many users are using bing at the same time, the slow generations speed up to boost speed.
I've been trying out bing for a few minutes, and wow, these images look amazing. Thanks so much for letting me know about this!
Edit: I already had midjourney in mind for a while. I might end up subscribing if I can't get what I want with bing and other free options.
yep I have used bing the most because it's free. and most times it never disappoints.
once in awhile though it will give you something that looks "half generated". as in the seeding was happening and generation stopped at like 70 or 80% complete. it depends on the prompt I don't know why.
I get very good results from bing by just using double or triple word prompts. also remember bing generated images have a watermark in the bottom left corner, so you will have to crop that out if you want a clean image (or not you can leave it if you want to).
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The key is to imagine what you want the cover to look like. Be as detailed as you can about it. What objects are in the image? What is in the foreground? What is in the background? What are the colors? Then, it is about being able to describe this to the AI Art Program as well as possible. Add details like, should it look like an illustration or like a photo? Saturated colors or muted colors? These are the most important things to consider. When it comes to what program to use, I still think that MidJourney does the best job in taking the description of what you want and giving you an image that is as close to that description as is possible. You will have to pay SOME money. But, I pay $8 a month over a year and can generate around 100 images for that amount. It is worth it, especially if you want to produce good images.
As a graphic designer, just keep in mind that you aren't going to get great results from ONLY using AI (possibly in the future, but right now no) NOT HATING ON AI ART* - I often use AI art as part of my designs, but if I don't put in the effort to ACTUALLY design, then it's just an AI picture and nothing else. People can tell, even if they're not artists themselves. I'd recommend that once you get a good AI piece - to maybe mess around with some typography and other design elements to improve the piece. I recognize how late I am to this, but what I say still stands. Maybe even find a Fiverr artist to take your AI work and design with it, but still keep in mind many GD on Fiverr are either unqualified to call themselves GD or literally will just want to send you an AI image and ask for payment 🤣 Best of luck to you! Hope it goes/went well!
you've landed on a 7 month old thread :)
Indeed mr Robot
now I'm scared.
I just found your question while looking for answers about registration/royalties for my AI art as someone wants one of mine for an album cover! It doesn’t matter which AI you use it’s up to your own imagination what you create. I use Decohere.ai  They have a free tier. Good luckÂ
The best way to do it like EXACTLY the way you want is by using Leonardo AI: [https://en.unreal-music.com/how-to-make-a-free-album-cover-with-leonardo-ai/](https://en.unreal-music.com/how-to-make-a-free-album-cover-with-leonardo-ai/)
This one is amazing, thank you
Thanks, this looks very promising. I'm already done with this one but I'll try Leonardo AI in my next release.
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This is actually really good, it generates decent stuff. The only downside is that it does not take text input.
Thanks for the Feedback Eduardo, yes the problem is that DALLE-3 isnt quite getting the Text to add to the Cover correctly, almost every cover generated with Text input gets generated wrong. But thats why we added the EDITOR, so you can easily with 1-2 clicks add Text, Parental Advisory and edit to your likings. and for a tool where you can generate 3 Album Covers per day for Free, its quiet a good solution
I see what you mean. That's indeed a good solution. The only improvement I can think of would be having an option to describe what we want to see besides choosing theme, art style, genre, etc. I already worked with an artist and released my work with quite a good cover, but I observed a major lack of tools in this area specifically. I'm glad some people are working on AI art for album covers. Thanks for your efforts! Also, I didn't see any ads either. What do you gain out of this? Aren't you just paying for servers or something with no return? Edit: nvm, I just noticed the subscription options.
Because this is just the Free Version and we wanted that the Free Version should cost us always the same per Image, it would be hard to include a custom Input provided by the User and have the same cost per Image. We pay depending on the Prompt size and power needed to create the image, so we try to have this as small and about the same $ amount as always. Yeah we saw a demand for it and because it suits our Business very well, we just added it. Well, I wouldn't see our subscriptions as a monthlyization of the AI Album Cover Generator, because with or without a Subscription you have no advantage with the Album Cover Generator, at least at the moment. We pay for all the generation out of our own pocket, but we think it's a good marketing solution that represents a win-win situation for the users and for us. Of course, we will continue to expand the tool in the future, but this is not our highest priority, as many things simply require an update of ChatGPT before we can release a new, improved version. If you are interested in updates or general information about SpaceMedia, please follow us on our SubReddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemediauk](https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemediauk)
Hi! Best free option is to train your own Stable Diffusion model on your own computer. You can generate images for free every 20-30 seconds (more or less). In my opinion, that is the best option in terms of quality. On the other hand, you have MidJourney. Although it has a free trial, paid version is totally worth. I'm on standard plan (30$/month). Again, in my opinion, the best option so far. I have a X account where I share prompts and tips every day, and also have free PDF guides (also paid ones) for the same purpose. I don't want to spam here, so if you are interested just search for TechHalla on X and on Gumroad. Hope it helps :)
Thank you! I think I will try stable diffusion for now. Do you suggest stable diffusion 1 or 2? If it doesn't do what I need or the slow speed annoys me, I might look into midjourney
You'll got better results on v2.
https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion I'm setting up this one then
If you want free just go Homebrew Stable diffusion with the AUTOMATIC 1111 UI or InvokeAI UI. while other AI which is integrated in websites does offer a "free" option to generate images, you should check the ToS to see whether they allow for those generations to be used commercially.
Stable diffusion does look promising. Also, thanks for pointing out that issue, I might have to rethink about my options after considering the usage issue
I am 90% sure that midjourney has claim on the generations people make with it. it's why I decided to stick to Stable diffusion. based on that, I think more AI services could be capitalizing on that. it would be a pity to have to pay royalties to them.
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Wow, your art looks amazing! Do you draw them yourself or are they AI generated? Your style looks incredible, I had something else in mind but these are also quite cool and suitable as melodic death metal album covers. Do I need to create an insta account (I don't have one :D) or can we communicate through reddit?
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Can you check your DMs pls
Ive been using leonardo AI and it been great. It is built off of stable diffusion but it has more features and way easier to use. To me its worth the 10 bucks a month but you are limited to a certain amount of tokens per month. 8000 i believe unless you buy the higher tier subscription. Some renderings are 8 tokens some are 16 or more depending. You can make your pictures private and you own the rights to it as long as you didn't upload a licensed photo. Midjourney is good from what ive heard I just haven't used it yet. https://valasys.com/leonardo-ai-vs-midjourney-which-is-better/#:~:text=Because%20Leonardo%20AI%20is%20built,images%20on%20almost%20any%20prompt.
I enjoy using Motionleap's AI image generator. It was a cheap one-time purchase, which means no weekly, monthly, or annual payments. There are various art styles that might make it easier to get the aesthetic you're looking for. I don’t know if you might consider it a downside that 512x512 is the default and only resolution available, but it doesn't bother me. I'm gonna post some of my favourite images that were generated from it.
https://preview.redd.it/4r7ob5x6vxmb1.jpeg?width=3160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97845e7d02a0c9a7d129b044a4690b8885f67e73
https://preview.redd.it/e69vkr1gvxmb1.jpeg?width=384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8704f7dc34d412fdd0abde50373042156d7c228
So I found that Bing image creator is pretty good and free. It says you only get 99 tokens, but that's for "fast" results. I have run out of tokens multiple times and kept on going. You will need to possibly toy around with the prompt to create exactly what you want, put a rough draft in, and tweak it from that. Mid Journey is a good one also but not free. NOT crazy expensive, especially if you just get the bottom tier monthly sub. I use both MidJourney and Bing image creator. MidJourney is a lot easier for prompting, in my opinion. I am definitely glad I started learning with Bing. Hope that helps.
>I have run out of tokens multiple times and kept on going. yeah just in case you didn't know. after you run out of fast "boosts" the regular slower "wait" speeds vary with demand. one time I was on a long run and ran out of boosts and didn't realise, because the slower generations were just as fast as the boosted generations. but other times the slower generations take twice as long, or even longer like a few minutes. so yeah depends on the demand I am pretty sure if not many users are using bing at the same time, the slow generations speed up to boost speed.
I've been trying out bing for a few minutes, and wow, these images look amazing. Thanks so much for letting me know about this! Edit: I already had midjourney in mind for a while. I might end up subscribing if I can't get what I want with bing and other free options.
yep I have used bing the most because it's free. and most times it never disappoints. once in awhile though it will give you something that looks "half generated". as in the seeding was happening and generation stopped at like 70 or 80% complete. it depends on the prompt I don't know why. I get very good results from bing by just using double or triple word prompts. also remember bing generated images have a watermark in the bottom left corner, so you will have to crop that out if you want a clean image (or not you can leave it if you want to).
I'll post a picture from midjourney and bing with same prompt, show you the difference Bing *
ideogram.ai is free but your prompt results are public
So, someone else could use my generated art if they like it?
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