Describe the record · Name the type · One square
Name the genre, the scene and the mood, and it comes back as a finished square: artwork composed with room for type, the band name and title rendered into the frame, and the film grain or print texture that makes a cover read as a record rather than a stock photo. Free credits come with the account.
Both squares come from our own runs on this page's model while building it, and both used the same three-part prompt: the scene, the texture, then the two lines of type in quotes. Every output is AI-generated, so your result varies with your description; read these as what the tool can hold, not a fixed outcome.
It composes a square image around type. That sounds small, but it is the entire difference between cover art and a nice picture: the scene has to leave somewhere for a name to go, and the name has to look like it belongs to the same object.
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 serif that looks printed rather than typed. Naming the genre and one concrete image is usually a better prompt than describing the artwork you think you want.
Creative engine
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 unless it broke the content policy.
Ask for a composition with empty sky, a dark lower third or a plain border. Type rendered over a busy centre is the single most common way one of these comes back unusable.
Film grain, offset print texture, a paper edge. Covers are printed objects, and a perfectly clean digital render is the giveaway that this was never one.
Put the artist name and the title in quotation marks and say where each goes. Anything longer than a short phrase starts to soften as the model fits it to the frame.
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 things that decide whether this comes back as cover art or as a picture with words on it.
Synthwave, folk, drill, ambient, hyperpop. One word pulls in a whole visual convention — palette, grain, typeface register — that you would otherwise have to describe in a paragraph and describe worse.
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.
Artist name and title, in quotation marks, plus no other text anywhere. Without that last phrase covers come back with invented tracklists and record-label marks along the edges.
Three places a generated square earns its keep.
Independent uploads to streaming services need a square at delivery, and this is usually the last thing anyone thinks about. A finished cover in one pass is worth more than a perfect one in three weeks.
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.
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.
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.
For short names in quotation marks, generally yes, and both examples on this page rendered exactly as written. Long names, unusual punctuation and stylised spellings are where it drifts, and the fix is usually to shorten the line rather than to re-run it.
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 unless it broke the content policy.
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
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Model credit guide
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 211 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 473. A full 30s take runs ≈ 1,260 at 480p and ≈ 2,835 at 720p. Supplying a reference clip lowers the per-second rate. |
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest Seedance tier. 5s 720p ≈ 154 credits, 5s 480p ≈ 72 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 27 credits silent, ≈ 53 with audio; 1080p ≈ 57 and ≈ 113. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second (Lite tier). About 45 credits at 720p and 53 at 1080p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 105 credits silent, ≈ 150 with audio; 1080p ≈ 135 and ≈ 203. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 158 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. 20 credits per 1K image, 30 at 2K, 45 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. 30 credits per 1K or 2K image, 50 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant, and the everyday editing price: a flat 8 credits per image at every resolution. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost premium image model here. 10 credits per 1K image, 15 at 2K, 30 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — 20 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Three tools where the lettering is part of the picture, not a layer on top of it.
A genre, one concrete image, and two lines in quotes. The cover is one pass.
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
