ChatGPT Prompts for Album Covers: 12 Cover Art Prompts

ChatGPT prompts for album covers help independent artists turn what a release is about into original square artwork. The 12 prompts below cover the mood board, concepts, the image prompt, title text, variations and a release check. Fill in each [variable] with your own release facts.

Keep the art original: no other artist's likeness, logos, trademarked characters or covers as references.

Define the look

1. Mood board in words

Describe a mood board for a [genre] release about [themes]: palette, light, texture, era and one kind of reference photo.

2. Visual material list

From these lyrics or notes [paste], list objects, places and colors that could carry the cover.

Pitch concepts

3. Three concepts

Pitch three cover concepts for [artist and title], each with a one-line idea, main subject and composition, and why it fits [themes].

4. Single vs album

I have an album cover idea [describe]. Suggest how the single covers for [song titles] can match it as a set.

5. Thumbnail test

For these concepts [list], tell me what still reads at the size of a phone streaming thumbnail and what gets lost.

Write the image prompt

6. Square cover prompt

Write a square 1:1 image prompt for [concept] with subject, setting, light, medium, palette and empty space for title type. No people, text or logos.

7. Self-portrait cover

Using my attached photo of myself, write a cover prompt that keeps my likeness and places me in [scene] with [palette].

8. Illustrated version

Rewrite this cover prompt [paste] as an illustration in [medium, such as gouache or linocut] without naming any artist.

Plan title text

9. Text in the image

Add the exact quoted text "[title]" to this prompt [paste], small and in the [top or bottom] area, in a [type style].

10. Text added later

Tell me where to leave a clear area on this cover [describe] and suggest two type styles for a design app.

Refine and release

11. Variations

Give me three short follow-up prompts that change the color, crop or time of day of this cover [paste].

12. Release check

List what I should confirm with [distributor] before uploading this cover: size, file type, text rules and AI art terms.

Use the full album cover prompt

The flagship Album Cover Prompt: Original Art Brief and Image Prompt runs every step from one brief: mood board, three concepts, a thumbnail test, a square image prompt, a title text plan, variations and a release check. Its example is a dreamy indie rock EP about leaving a small coastal town.

Related prompts

For a show instead of a record, try the podcast cover art prompt. While you finish the music, use the ChatGPT prompts for music production or the music production arrangement and mix prompt. For other images, start from the ChatGPT image prompt builder.

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