After years of learning the basics of music creation, production, promotion and distribution I feel like I am just about getting the hang of this crazy music business. Of course I will never know everything or even ever create the perfect mix. Can a...
Although Dall-E is a beta program, it has proven itself far beyond my expectations for use in creating unique and beautiful cover designs. As soon as the ads for it came across my radar, I signed up for the beta and now I'm in. More info can be found on:
https://labs.openai.com/dall-e2/
You use words to "prompt" what you want to see created and tell the program which colours you want to use and which style you'd like them to be interpreted in. When I tried some different explanations ("Monet", blur, etc) and for each explanation or "prompt" the program spat out four new completely different ideas within a few seconds. After that I clicked on the one I like and it provided four more variants of the one I liked the best.
What Dal-E does is create a combination of images found on the internet and applies the filters and feelings/artist feeling you provide in your prompt
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I have a new album in the making and its main song is called It's Beginning to Rain Outside. (I thought the main song was going to be Abide but now I am switching to the new title after my husband and I had a planning session this summer). The final cover design had a darker colour to it and I added the title in Canva at a 3000 x 3000 pixel size. But it is not shown here (secret!).
Dall-Eis revolutionary because even the most unartistic musicians can now create amazing cover art from this compilation of trillions of motifs and pictures re-imagined and filtered in unique ways for next to nothing or nothing. The first 50 credits were free and you get 15 extra credits with each passing month. You can always buy more credits and THAT is what they are hoping for.
There are still some quirks left to fix, though. As you can see from the pic on the top of this chapter. it couldn't create a black and white version as I had explained in my prompt Here were four other options the program spat out for the following, more specific prompt:
"A bohemian dressed couple under a large umbrella, walking in the rain in the middle of water drenched, shiny city streets in the middle of the night. Her one hand is outstretched to feel the rain and his arm is around her waist."
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There were two of the five attempts I made that were right up my alley (not shown here) and I might just use them when I drop my album.
There is a dropside to this. All those creative graphical designers on Fiverr are going to be out of a job soon. The smarter AI gets, the less professional graphics creators are going to make. Or, maybe they can create faster and provide more interesting results for their clients by using artificial intelligence. The future trend for album covers will be AI driven that's for sure!
