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Lead with the genre
Synthwave, folk, drill, ambient, hyperpop. One word pulls in the palette, the grain and the typeface language that would take a whole paragraph to spell out by hand.
AI Album Cover Generator
Turn the sound in your head into the face people attach to your music: name the genre, scene and mood, and get a finished square with the artwork, lettering and grain born together. No designer, no stock photo hunt.
Two runs
Two genres, one prompt structure
Both covers were generated with the exact same three-part prompt: the scene, the texture, then the two lines of type in quotes. Together they show how the same three-part prompt can hold radically different genres while keeping the scene, texture and type working as one cover.
Synthwave — neon, rain, condensed capitals
AI image tool
What an album cover generator does
It composes the image and lettering as one object—the difference between a picture with words on it and cover art that already feels like the record.
Image tool
Most people arrive here with a genre and a feeling, not a brief. That is enough. Genre carries an enormous amount of visual convention with it — synthwave means night, neon and wet tarmac; folk means muted colour, a lot of empty space and a paper edge. Name the genre and most of the composition is already decided.
Then put the artist name and the title in quotation marks and say where each one goes — two short lines that become part of the cover's visual identity.
Creative engine
How a run works
Describe the record, quote the name and title, pick the square shape and generate. The cost estimate shows before you start and a failed run is refunded automatically.
No photo
What it needs
1:1
Usual shape
Credits back
Render errors
Leave room for the lettering
Ask for a composition with empty sky, a dark lower third or a plain border. That quiet area gives the lettering a clean stage, and the finished square reads as intentional cover art instead of a picture with words on it.
Texture is what sells it
Film grain, offset print texture, a paper edge. Covers are printed objects, and a perfectly clean digital render is the giveaway that this one never was — texture is the cheapest credibility available.
For neighbouring formats, the movie poster generator builds a title treatment and billing block, the tombstone generator carves lettering into stone, and the sticker generator cuts a die-line around a subject.
Three decisions
How to get a usable square
Three things that decide whether this comes back as cover art or as a picture with words on it.
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Compose for the type
Say where the name goes and leave that area quiet: empty sky at the top, a dark lower third, a plain paper border. The model will happily fill every inch of the frame if you do not ask it not to.
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Quote the two lines and stop there
Artist name and title, in quotation marks, plus no other text anywhere. That last phrase keeps the frame clean, so every eye lands on your name and title.
Who uses it
What these are actually for
Three places a generated square earns its keep.
Releases that need art by Friday
Independent uploads to streaming services need a square at delivery, and this is usually the last thing anyone thinks about. Get a cover ready to upload tonight instead of chasing a designer for three weeks.
Playlists and mixtapes
A cover for a playlist nobody is going to press to vinyl, where the point is that it looks deliberate rather than automatically generated by the platform.
Mockups and pitch decks
Art directors testing a direction, or a band deciding between two moods before paying an illustrator. Generating both and looking at them side by side settles the argument faster than describing them.
Answers
Before you generate a cover
What it renders, what it will not do, and what a square costs.
The image is yours to use, including on a release. What you should not do is ask it to imitate a specific existing album, artist's artwork or logo — that is where a generated cover stops being your own and starts being somebody else's, and no generator changes that.
Short artist names and titles in quotation marks are the sweet spot, and both examples on this page rendered exactly as written. Keep each line compact and the lettering comes out at its strongest.
Because a cover is a format the model has seen carrying tracklists, catalogue numbers and label marks, so it adds them unless told not to. Ending the prompt with no other text anywhere removes them.
Not on this page, which composes the square from a description. To work from a photograph you already have, start in the image studio with an image-to-image run and describe the treatment you want applied to it.
Most ask for a square of at least 3000 × 3000 pixels for release artwork. Generate at the largest square the model offers and check the requirement of the distributor you are using before you upload, since they differ.
Free credits come with the account and cover the first attempts, which is usually enough to compare a couple of genres. After that each render draws from your balance like any image, the estimate for your model and size shows in the generator before you start, and a failed run is refunded automatically.
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
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Describe the record, get the square
Give the record its face: name the genre, picture one unforgettable scene, add two lines in quotes, and make the cover people will attach to the music.