I've never held off from buying an album because of bad art. I would probably skip anything that's actually disgusting, but that hasn't been an issue.
There are a couple musicians I like who started using AI images. They're really obviously AI images but not in the fun crazy earliest days where it was dogs with a million eyes and that sort of thing... it's just that kind of uncanny valley but bland and samey look. I'm not a fan.
OTOH, using AI tools to create something abstract and geometric can work well. Or go minimalist and text-only, just pick a nice font. Or browse for public domain / CC0 images -- photos or illustrations or maps or diagrams or whatever. Maybe zoom way in on a tiny part of such an image, maybe convert it to vector graphics, mess with filters in paint software, etc.
I've made all my own album covers except for one. Some of them used AI tools (some with the obvious weirdness, some not), but most didn't. Some of them used photos I took, some of them used public domain photos. There are a couple I'd like to go back and redo, but mostly I'm happy with them.
One note though, I found that DistroKid had specific requirements for cover art that disqualified some of the effects I was using on text. Its algorithm misinterpreted an intentional blur as an attempt to upscale a low-resolution image to higher resolution![:dog:]( "D'oh!")
and I wound up using a much more boring, rushed cover as a result.
There are a couple musicians I like who started using AI images. They're really obviously AI images but not in the fun crazy earliest days where it was dogs with a million eyes and that sort of thing... it's just that kind of uncanny valley but bland and samey look. I'm not a fan.
OTOH, using AI tools to create something abstract and geometric can work well. Or go minimalist and text-only, just pick a nice font. Or browse for public domain / CC0 images -- photos or illustrations or maps or diagrams or whatever. Maybe zoom way in on a tiny part of such an image, maybe convert it to vector graphics, mess with filters in paint software, etc.
I've made all my own album covers except for one. Some of them used AI tools (some with the obvious weirdness, some not), but most didn't. Some of them used photos I took, some of them used public domain photos. There are a couple I'd like to go back and redo, but mostly I'm happy with them.
One note though, I found that DistroKid had specific requirements for cover art that disqualified some of the effects I was using on text. Its algorithm misinterpreted an intentional blur as an attempt to upscale a low-resolution image to higher resolution
and I wound up using a much more boring, rushed cover as a result.Statistics: Posted by foosnark — Tue Jun 11, 2024 12:33 pm