Album Art Generator

Album art generated with AI needs to hit one technical requirement before anything else: a square image, minimum 3000x3000 pixels, in RGB JPG or PNG, with no borrowed logos or trademarked characters. Get that wrong and Spotify for Artists, DistroKid, or whichever distributor you're using will bounce the upload. KreArt.io's album art tool exports at 3000x3000 by default specifically so the file passes distributor checks without resizing in another app afterward.

Past that requirement, the actual design work is a prompt problem. Genre matters more than most people account for: a lo-fi cover tends toward muted, slightly grainy color and a single still-life or interior scene; trap and hip-hop covers lean into bold composition, high contrast, and portrait-style focal points; indie rock covers often use film-photo textures and off-center framing; EDM and electronic covers go for saturated gradients and abstract or geometric shapes; ambient covers tend toward minimal, low-detail landscapes or textures. Naming the genre in the prompt, alongside mood words like moody, warm, stark, or nostalgic, gets you closer to a cover that reads as belonging to that genre than a literal description of the song's lyrics would.

A common mistake is asking for band names, logos, or a specific celebrity's likeness in the prompt — models either refuse, produce a garbled approximation, or generate something close enough to a real trademark or person to get flagged on distributor review. Cleaner results come from describing a scene, object, color story, or abstract composition instead, then adding the artist name and track title afterward as a separate design step if you want text on the cover at all — most distributors actually prefer text-free or minimal-text covers, since the title displays as metadata next to the art anyway.

If the release already has a photo — a band photo, a video still, a personal photo tied to the song — you can use that as the base and apply a style pass instead of generating from scratch. Midjourney and Flux AI both handle stylized, painterly, or textured cover looks well; Midjourney tends toward more painterly, art-directed results, while Flux AI stays closer to photographic realism if that's the direction you want.

Generating three or four variations from the same prompt before picking one is worth the extra minute — cover art gets judged in a tiny thumbnail on a phone screen, and what reads well at full size doesn't always hold up shrunk to 60 pixels. Free daily credits cover that kind of testing. Paid plans remove the watermark and raise the export resolution for print use like vinyl or a CD insert.