Hey, so you asked me about how I make the book covers.
I use two apps: ChatGPT and Gemini Ai.
If you want to make a photo with characters, I recommend ChatGPT - it is way better ; while Gemini will tell you it can't generate photos of real people and bla bla. Plus Gemini makes a lot more mistakes.
Gemini is good with generating backgrounds and outfits.
But CHAT is tricky if you don't have the premium (meaning you have 3 or 4 tries to generate the photos, so you have to be very detailed with instructions).
This is example how I do it: I want, in this case - the Reign cover of Gülfem and her son. Once I thought of the actor I wanted to play him, I downolad his photo from pinterest or google (And Gülfem's photo). I open chat and put these their photos and give the following instructions:
°Make me a photo of these two people together.
°The background is: [you type the background you want or you send the photo of the background you want].
°The year is: [Insert year or era (such as - the Ottoman Empire, modern age etc...] and make outfit accordingly to that time (or send the outfit you want them to wear , I use that more often]
°The pose is: [You choose are they hugging, standing, glaring at each other etc...]
°Facial expressions are also very important [They are smiling, they are enemies etc]
°The lightning: [You say whether you want dark,light, shadows, sunrays, snow etc...]
°And Book Title Style and your Author Name: You think of the book name and author's name: [your author name] ; bcs if you don’t do this, the app will alone give the random book and author name, and I do not recommend that because it will ruin the photo and you will have to do it again.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask ❤️