a blog post cover image featuring ai genreated book cover designs using midjourney ai tool,
A good book cover can skyrocket sales of your books, pleople says “Don’t judge a book by its cover” but a book cover is first impression to a buyer, a well designed book cover can catch attention of buyer, but creating stunning covers for books that alighns with story is challanging, Here comes some powerful ai tools that not only brings your ideas to the reality but also provides high quality and creative designs with some text inputs. Midjourney Ai is the most popular Text to image Ai tool that transforms your thoughts into beautiful pictures, whether it is for your book cover design or marketing materials, If you want to learn about creating images with Midjourney AI then you can follow this Midjourney Ai beginners guide to create Ai images.
You can leverage AI tools to create stunning book cover designs and mockups that align with your book genre and story. Just type the texts you have in mind or some keywords from your book story and Midjourney will give you several options, you can keep trying until you get desired results.
Here are some Midjourney prompts that I tried to create book cover designs and book mockups, you can use these prompts or take ideas from these to make your design.
To achive best results, its very important to write better prompts, it is not important to write too long prompts to generate good images, a one liner prompt also can genereate stunning images, but there has to be well targeted keywords. here are ways to write better Midjourney prompts to get a good book cover design.
Check out this easy tutorial how you can use Midjourney AI and Photoshop to create book cover design.
Let’s explore Midjourney prompts for book cover design, you can use these prompts, edit and experiment with these promots to generate design
Prompt: minimalist book cover image for an ebook, enamel pin business –stylize 250 –v 5.2
I wanted a very simple book cover design for an ebook for enamel pin business, I did not write too much words for the design as it has to be simple and minimalist book cover, aspect ratio for this I kept defult.
Prompt: book cover design, space exploration, science fiction, top view –stylize 250 –v 5.2
In this prompt you can see, I just used important keywords for the book, added gener of the book, It needs some edits but good to go for a cover design.
Prompt: book cover design, illustrated, education, success, personal growth, freedom, –stylize 250 –v 5.2
Another simple prompt, using keywords only, it does not cover all the aspects such as education , personal growth elements in it, but the illustration looks amazing.
Prompt: book cover design, encapsulates the theme of business growth, sucess, ensure the design is creative, modern, uncluttered , reflects seriousness, ambition –stylize 250 –v 5.2
Prompt- “frontal pose of a black woman in deep imagination, closes eyes, volumous hair in mosaic pattern style, flowing mosiac halirstyle, gold and black colors, a shiny diamond made of mosaic fragments in front of her, jade background, hyperrealisitic, UHD –ar 2:3”
Prompt- “A whimsical illustration of a cute friendly robot with a vr gogals hanging in his arm, tablet beside it, flying drone, including trees, plants, animals in background, vibrant blue, yellow and green color palette, for childeren’s book age 10 to 14 years kids, sense of fun, wonder, imagination and educational. –ar 2:3 –stylize 250”
Prompt: A lone figure standing before a dense forest, shrouded in mist. Curious mood with ancient trees.
Prompt- “A creepy women holding an old photo in front of antique mirror, ghostly figures in background, scary environement, –chaos 20 –ar 4:5 –stylize 200”
Prompt– “dark fantasy book cover mockup design, capturing fantastical envrionment, focused on the character with creative elements on it, realistic 3d rendered, 8k”
Prompt– “ top view book cover mockup design, capturing fantasy theme, focused on the beautiful female fairy character, shades of pastel colors, with creative elements floating in background. –chaos 50 –stylize 1000“
Prompt: “Whimsical and swirly style Image of a short woman with glasses dreaming of her love with flower, a brain, shades of purple and turquoise color”
This cover designed using elements from the book story, and generated prompt using sentences and keywords from the book story. You can also try this method to pick keywords from the story and explain it in a easy way, You can futher explore more variations until you get satisfied with results.
Prompt: Colorful, abstract, book cover design
If you dont have any keywords in mind, and dont know what should be the cover contains, You can simply pick few key words, theme of the book and try creating designs.
Prompt-A beautiful young girl meditating or floating in blue light from a distance, science fiction. –ar 2:3 –stylize 50 –v 5.2
Prompt- “girl floating in a world made of computer code in the style of the matrix, in the style of vibrant illustrations, white and blue , studyplace, playful use of shapes. –chaos 50 –ar 4:5 –stylize 750”
Prompt– “eye catchy childrens book cover design, focused on the funny characters, two kids with a cute elephant in imaginative world, playful colors, hyeper realistic, 3d rendered, 32k”
Prompt– “book cover design mockup for love story book, capturing the couple in romatic way, moody envirounment, dim ligting, eye catchy, hyper realistic, “
Prompt–“illustration style book cover design mockup for fictional story book, capturing theif planning to heist, hyper realistic, best composition, 32k.”
Prompt–“negative space style book cover design mockup for fictional story book, capturing theif running after heist, hyper realistic, best composition, 32k.”
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You can use these keywords , styles, themes, environmets for creating book cover designs using text-to-image ai tools.
Hope these prompts were helpful for your to understand a basic about writing prompts to generate AI book cover designs, These prompts can be used for any other Text-to-image ai tools like Dall-e, Leonardo AI, Ideogram, but results may get differ accoding to AI model you are using. Try these prompts to generate ai book covers, edit and experiment with prompts, You might also like these midjourney prompts for enamel pins, or How to sell Ai images on freepik and make a passive income with your ai artworks.
There are so many text to image ai tools available on the internet, some of them are free and some of them are paid such as Midjourney, Dall-e, Leonardo , Ideogram and many more. You can use any ai tool to create book covers, but Midjourney is most popular ai tool to generate stunning book cover designs.
You can use “–ar x:x” (x= number) in prompts parameters to set aspect ratio in midjourney ai, if you want aspect ratio which midjourney is not allowing, like 1600 pixels wide by 2400 pixels high that is 1:1.5, then you multiply it by 2, for example 1×2, 1.5×2 = 2:3.
Ai tools can help you do 50-60% work for book cover design, its always good to do editing in ai generated book covers and artworks such as removing unwanted elements, adding texts, color correction etc.
Yes, you can use ai generated book covers for your amazon kdp, when you submit the book cover it asks you whether cover is generated using Ai or not, always do some editings when you design cover from ai tools like midjourney, dall-e or any other tool
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