How to Create Book Covers With AI (And Why You Should)
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- In this video, I'll share how to create a book cover using AI Art. In this video, we're specifically researching the best book cover genres, using Midjourney to create the artwork, then using Adobe Photoshop to generate the text and clean up the AI Image.
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As an artist who many moons ago made my living creating book covers I can see both sides of this. It makes sense to eliminate the artist from the process and let the AI do the job instead- but the end game here is to also eliminate the writer from the process and let the AI do the writing as well. So we end up in a world where most of our culture is produced not by humans but by machines.
I can't blame writers for not using artists- because I am an artist who no longer needs to use writers, since AI can do the writing for me. But as we all eagerly embrace these new tools I can't help wondering if we will all one day wake up in a world where something has been lost- at what point does AI cease to be the servant and become the master?
On the positive side I think traditional artists will themselves use A.I. for ideas that they will turn into real paintings that will be mind blowing. Instead of it taking decades for new styles to arrive on the scene it will literally happen overnight at the touch of a button.
You’re so right… wow.
@@obscuremusictabs5927 It can't create new style though.... all it can do is replicate. It doesn't take decades to create a new style every artist has a style and they can change it pretty fast depending on their skill. You probably mean art movement, I don't see ai art being in any new art movement because artists generally don't like to use it.
@@trialshdultimategame all people do is replicate. they take two things and put them together and make something new. the genius lies in finding connections between two things that other non genius people just don't see. A.I. makes connections that we don't see. People aren't as innovative as they'd like to think. most of the great breakthroughs we've had just come from trial and error and accidents and copying nature. did man invent the wheel out of thin air or did some guy just watch a log rolling down a hill and took note of it. would we ever have thought of airplanes if we didn't have birds to copy. it's no coincidence that they look similar. we are copy cats by nature.
Midjourney has its own inpainting in v5.2 (not v6 yet) - after upscaling an image, there is a button "Vary (Region)". You can keep adjusting any aspect of your image (remove/add bits, including unwated text, sausage fingers, etc.). There are plenty of good tutorials on YT on that function, and their own documentation, although sparse, is enough to get anyone started :)
V6 also introduced higher coherence, and better text. Everybody expects it to get better very quickly :)
Midjourney steals don’t use them
At the end of your prompt, you can also put --no text, font, writing. Often that will give you covers without text.
Thank you Really great tutorial, if only I could be as decisive, takes me about a week to decide on a font 👀
Danny F Santos (the author of the books in the thumbnail) is in my writing group! Fantastic writer.
What's funny is when I see these kinds of book covers I immediately lose interest. They remind me of low effort self published novels. These kinds of covers are a dime a dozen and I have often wondered why people choose them for their books as it does the opposite of helping the book stand out. Though, there probably is a sizable amount of people out there who can't get enough of these covers which is probably why they won't go away.
Sorry friend, but there is no longer any reliable method to determine which book covers are made with AI. Literally the only way to be sure something was made by a human is if it looks like MS Paint. Or maybe if you personally know the book cover artist and trust them not to use AI.
@@quigglyz Heavily disagree trained artists can still see ai art as of right now. Their are still so many iinconsistencies from broken perspective to pieces of geomatry that just don't make sense in the piece. I can tell, will I in the future that's debatable, but if I see a book with an ai cover I won't buy it.
I appreciate this video. This is fr cool and helpful. I've been thinking of making my own cover but i realized that im one of those ppl that would have a dope cover image with a basic font. lol
Are there any disclaimers we should write for the cover? Imagine's terms of service said something about not using it for commercial use.
Can you do a tutorial using Midjourney + Photoshop to design a paperback cover (front and back)?
Thanks
Amazing video!
You are so kind
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📘 *Introduction to AI Book Covers*
- Creating book covers can be expensive, ranging from $1 to $3000.
- AI can be a cost-effective solution for supplemental book covers.
- Emphasizes AI as a supplementary tool, not a replacement for professional artists.
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I used the word "hero image" for thriller book cover and that avoided the text.
Oh good one!
What advice or priorities can you give new authors getting into all of this space. The myriad of tools (gpt 4 and Claude 2 and Midjourney etc.) all create a big cost barrier to entry. How do you go about deciding which tools to get and when?
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Book cover design is not something I would give to AI.
Normally no but does work for certain scenarios.
Good tutorial 👍
Thank you 👍
I suggest InvokeAI if you have a powerful enough PC to run it to remove text.
But you aren't able to copyright the AI art so why use it for a book you're going to publish?
Why would anyone steal the art if they can easily just make their own?
@@TheNerdyNovelist Does this mean I could generate any AI book cover from any source and use it for selling on Amazon?
One click amazing book covers are only 3 to 5 years away. Max. Great clip by the way. :)
Remember, US copyright law does not cover your AI generated book cover. Anyone can use it for whatever they want.
But why would they when they can just generate their own? There’s too much fear around not being able to copyright AI images in my opinion. I think it will rarely if ever be an issue.
@@TheNerdyNovelist I see it as a new tool for scammers. If an author publishes a popular book, but the cover was AI generated, a scammer can take their cover art and legally put it on their own book.
@@patricker22But not the title or author's name, the blurb, or anything about the original book. I mean, that's classic caveat emptor. Also, people have traded on similar concepts in the past; ie film mockbusters that resemble the title and poster of a big name film, but are actually straight to video low budget schlock.
How will they even know it is AI generated? If you do a good job of it, one shouldn’t be able to tell it is AI generated.
Not true, some cites have commercial releases if you pay and will back you in court should copyright claims come your way and with all the money on the table with ai art, copyright laws will adapt, those who get ahead of the curve now will have the advantage.
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Thanks!
It's a shame that I can't insert a photo of the book covers that I've designed for my authors. The covers were in the genres of poetry, religious/spiritual, mysteries (political, spy, murder, terrorism, etc.), science fiction, children's books, etc. I'd be happy to send you a photograph with all of the books that I helped to publish, Jason.
I think AI covers look just as good, if not better than professional artists covers.
This is the era. People have to adapt and accept change; it's always been that way.
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