Album Cover Generator

The first box asks "What is on the cover?" and takes up to 300 characters. The second, optional box takes the artist and title, up to 80 characters. Then you choose one of eight looks: Film photo, Pen & Pixel bling, Minimal type, Oil painting, Collage, Anime, 3D render or Black and white.

Behind the button, your scene is wrapped in a brief for a hip hop album cover: square, one strong focal point, bold composition. If you typed a title, the model is told to set those exact words as typography. If you left the box empty, it is told to draw no text at all, which gives you clean art to letter yourself.

If you saved a rapper name with "Use this" on one of the name generators, it is already sitting in the title box in capitals when you arrive. Delete it or add the album title after it. The finished cover shows up in the result panel with a Download button.

Think of the cover as one photograph, not a collage of everything on the record. Pick the object or place that the album keeps coming back to, then add light and time: night, dawn, a single streetlamp, a TV left on. Those two details do more for mood than any adjective.

Keep people generic or leave them out. The tool does not draw real people or celebrity likenesses, and a faceless figure seen from behind often makes a stronger cover anyway. These scene descriptions are ready to paste and edit.

• A payphone glowing on an empty street at 3 AM, wet pavement, no people
• A childhood bedroom with trophies on the shelf and a suitcase by the door
• A gold chain coiled on a kitchen table next to an unpaid bill, morning light
• A figure in a hoodie seen from behind on a rooftop, city lights out of focus
• An old car covered in snow under one orange streetlight

Most stores ask for a square image of 3000 × 3000 pixels; check your distributor’s current spec before you upload. Compare the file you download here against that spec, and if it is smaller, enlarge it with an upscaler before you submit. Distributors also tend to reject covers with web addresses, prices or references to a store on them.

Then run the thumbnail test. Shrink the cover on your screen until it is the size of a postage stamp, which is how most listeners will ever see it. If you can still tell what the subject is and read the artist name, the cover works. If not, crop tighter or cut the text.

• One subject, readable when the cover is stamp-sized
• Title and artist name spelled the same as in your release metadata
• High contrast between text and background
• No logos, no faces of real people, no text you did not write