Using AI Images In Your Book Cover Design Process With Damon Freeman
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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How can you expand the possibilities of book cover images with AI? What are some of the controversies and how can authors and designers work together with AI tools to create original design? Book cover designer Damon Freeman discusses his views. There are lots of links in the show notes below to specific resources, but […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 712 of the podcast, and it is Wednesday the 6th of September |
| 0:39.9 | 2023 as I record this. |
| 0:43.4 | In today's Inbetweenisode, I'm talking with Damon Freeman from De Monza about using AI images |
| 0:50.5 | as part of the book cover design process, something I know many of you are already doing |
| 0:55.9 | or at least thinking about. We talk about using AI tools as part of the creative process, |
| 1:03.1 | how mid-journey works, we discuss aspects of copyright, although of course we are not lawyers, |
| 1:09.4 | so this is just our opinion, |
| 1:11.5 | as well as how AI tools are enabling the creation of unique cover images |
| 1:16.2 | that have been almost impossible before, or at least very, very difficult. |
| 1:20.9 | And if AI will be able to do everything, how will creatives make a living? |
| 1:26.4 | Plus, tips for working with your cover designer if you want |
| 1:29.7 | to incorporate AI images. Now, I've used AI images on every book cover this year. My short story |
| 1:37.7 | with a demon's eye and also on Catacomb and soon to be published writing the shadow, all our composite AI image covers. So essentially I |
| 1:47.9 | made a whole load of images on the pro version of Mid Journey with the commercial license. I pay for it, |
| 1:54.6 | so I have the commercial license. And then my human designer, Jane, basically puts the various |
| 2:00.3 | images together to create the final cover. |
| 2:03.0 | And I've included some pictures of the original images and the finished covers in the show notes, |
| 2:09.1 | along with a lot of links because Damon and I talk about things. And in the transcript, |
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