AI album and cover art
A single needs a square cover at 3000×3000 and, increasingly, something to play under the teaser clip. Ideovex is the one place you can make both without leaving for a stock site or a second subscription.
What a cover-plus-track costs
| Cover concepts, 8 draftsFlux 2 Dev · 8 × 1 cr | 8 |
| The cover on a flagshipSeedream 5 Pro · 2 × 20 cr | 40 |
| Upscale to 3000×3000Upscale · 1 × 10 cr | 10 |
| Original trackSuno V5 · 1 × 80 cr | 80 |
Credit costs are live from the catalogue; the cash figure is Starter-plan pricing.
Cover art is a square-format problem with a high bar for mood and a low bar for literal accuracy — which is exactly what generative image models are good at. The trick is to explore cheaply, then finish the one concept that carries the record.
Because the same studio generates music, you can score the release in the same session on the same balance. Art and audio ship together, licensed the same way, instead of being stitched from two tools.
The workflow
How it actually runs.
Each step links to the part of the studio that does it.
Draft the cover cheap
Eight square concepts on a 1-credit model to find the mood before you spend anything on detail.
AI image generatorFinish the cover
Re-run the strongest concept on a photoreal or graphic flagship for the detail and contrast that survive a thumbnail.
AI image generatorSize it for streaming
Upscale to a clean 3000×3000 — the square that Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp all ask for.
AI image upscalerScore the release
Generate an original track in the same studio so the teaser and the record share one sound, with no library licence to clear.
AI music generatorWatch out
Where this goes wrong.
- Judge every cover at thumbnail size. Most listeners first meet it at 120px in a playlist, where fine detail vanishes and contrast is everything.
- Type on the cover — artist and title — is safer set in your design tool over the art than generated inside the image.
- Streaming platforms want a square at least 3000×3000. Generate at the closest square the model offers and upscale rather than stretching.
- A generated cover cannot reference a real, identifiable person or another artist's copyrighted artwork. Distinctive but original is the brief.
FAQ
What people ask.
Yes, and cover art suits it well: it is a square, mood-driven image where literal accuracy matters less than atmosphere. Draft eight concepts on a 1-credit model, finish the winner on a flagship, then upscale to the 3000×3000 square streaming platforms require. Set the artist and title type over the art in a design tool rather than generating it inside the image.
A square of at least 3000×3000 pixels covers Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. Generate at the closest square size your chosen model offers and upscale for 10 credits if the export looks soft at full size — a cover that is crisp small still needs the resolution for the release page.
Eight cover drafts, two flagship finals, an upscale and one original track comes to about 138 credits — roughly 39 cents at Starter pricing, for both the artwork and the music, licensed the same way on one balance.
On Creator and Studio, which include a commercial usage licence, yes. What you cannot do is base the cover on a real person's likeness or another artist's work, and the music you generate is yours to release under that licence rather than a stock clip you have to keep re-clearing.
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22 credits a day on the free account, no card. That is enough to get through the draft stage of this workflow.