When I have bought covers, I always want the cover without words, because that always give me the freedom to do the text how I want, and sometimes I change my mind after the sale. So it's the same for me when I create my own. I also like being able to use my image however I want without buying other packages.
In the very first try I got a cover that I instantly fell in love with. And this morning I'm editing my character's descriptions to match the cover. Thank you very much for this suggestion.
Ideogram is fantastic for text. I've also done the opposite where I generate text in black and white as an asset. Overall I like generating assets that get assembled into the final piece. But even then, the original images you generated as full covers make for a great target that you can deconstruct to figure out what those assets should be.
I would suggest considering going one step further and creating the figure and the background as separate images and putting them on separate layers in a graphics editing programme. In some of the covers you created I imagine other people might want the man bigger or the lighthouse to stand out more for example and you could position and adjust the images individually. It does mean more work but it really gives you a lot more control over the final image without having to re-prompt and how it comes out just right.
I’ve used Ideogram a bunch, it’s surprisingly great at text. But it isn’t great at retaining the font over new covers, say for a series. It *is* good if you use the series title as the “big” title text on the cover and the individual title as smaller text - and some authors do this for popular series so it’s not unprecedented.
Good video. I have never understood the argument that goes, "If you're an author who uses an AI-generated cover, then your entire book must be written by AI." By that logic, if I hire an artist to create my book cover from scratch, then I must have hired a ghostwriter to write my entire book.
I start with a discussion with Gemini and ask what are the most successful trends in cover designs for [genre]. I think let it read my book and it to suggest style and prompts. I can then take the prompts to several image generators and pick the best. I could also edit to combine elements I like.
Was thinking of redoing my book cover it’s a steamy Christmas novella and I’m wondering if I should go with the new style of illustrated covers or redo it with the couple or just the guy on the cover
Might help you get a cleaner samurai sword, if you called it a “katana” then the A.i. wouldn’t be trying to interpret two words, but a singular identifying word that would allow it to be consistent throughout.
Great clip as always. You should maybe pay someone to go through your comments and leave little love emojis for nice comments, as your fans want to hear from you more. :) I know you are busy, but a VA to do this would be cheap, and your fans would appreciate it - keep it up. (Not expecting a love emoji).
When I have bought covers, I always want the cover without words, because that always give me the freedom to do the text how I want, and sometimes I change my mind after the sale. So it's the same for me when I create my own. I also like being able to use my image however I want without buying other packages.
In the very first try I got a cover that I instantly fell in love with. And this morning I'm editing my character's descriptions to match the cover.
Thank you very much for this suggestion.
Wow...just wow! I didn't think a tool like this would come so soon, but here we are. Thanks for sharing, Jason.
Ideogram is fantastic for text. I've also done the opposite where I generate text in black and white as an asset. Overall I like generating assets that get assembled into the final piece. But even then, the original images you generated as full covers make for a great target that you can deconstruct to figure out what those assets should be.
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I would suggest considering going one step further and creating the figure and the background as separate images and putting them on separate layers in a graphics editing programme. In some of the covers you created I imagine other people might want the man bigger or the lighthouse to stand out more for example and you could position and adjust the images individually. It does mean more work but it really gives you a lot more control over the final image without having to re-prompt and how it comes out just right.
I’ve used Ideogram a bunch, it’s surprisingly great at text. But it isn’t great at retaining the font over new covers, say for a series. It *is* good if you use the series title as the “big” title text on the cover and the individual title as smaller text - and some authors do this for popular series so it’s not unprecedented.
Thanks for sharing. I've been searching for an AI tool like this. Found it!
Just found you and subscribed! I love your videos.
Good video. I have never understood the argument that goes, "If you're an author who uses an AI-generated cover, then your entire book must be written by AI." By that logic, if I hire an artist to create my book cover from scratch, then I must have hired a ghostwriter to write my entire book.
No one has ever said that.
no one has ever said that.
I start with a discussion with Gemini and ask what are the most successful trends in cover designs for [genre]. I think let it read my book and it to suggest style and prompts. I can then take the prompts to several image generators and pick the best. I could also edit to combine elements I like.
Was thinking of redoing my book cover it’s a steamy Christmas novella and I’m wondering if I should go with the new style of illustrated covers or redo it with the couple or just the guy on the cover
I may never write a great book (not for lack of practice) but at least now I can have a great cover to judge it by!
Might help you get a cleaner samurai sword, if you called it a “katana” then the A.i. wouldn’t be trying to interpret two words, but a singular identifying word that would allow it to be consistent throughout.
I can see me using this to make a my book cover thumbnails.
Great clip as always. You should maybe pay someone to go through your comments and leave little love emojis for nice comments, as your fans want to hear from you more. :) I know you are busy, but a VA to do this would be cheap, and your fans would appreciate it - keep it up. (Not expecting a love emoji).
Wow, I've signed up, it's amazing. Wow, future is here.
Yeah, I prefer to design my own text when I design my own book cover prototypes.
Yeah.