You need a tag (or more than one) for AI. I know a lot of people hate it, and I understand the ethical arguments about it, but if someone really can’t do any better, an image of this sort could be used to make a cover that would be OK if a bit bland. But not by filling up the rest of the shape needed for a cover with peach and awful black text, lol.
I just noticed the lamps on the basketball backboard pole. Lamps. 2 lamps, one above the other and aimed right down the net. No civil engineer worth hiser salt would allow that.
Do we know who the author is? And I’m going to stop looking now before I find a lot more identifiably wrong in this world.
RK@HM
2 days ago
For all the glitches, the A.I. art’s not bad. One does—however—have to wonder why the designer felt the need to use a landscape ratio picture on a portrait ratio book cover: most A.I. text-to-image generators come with adjustable image ratio settings, and even if the image’s ratio isn’t a perfect match for your book cover’s ratio, a little cropping in post-production can usually fix that. Maybe the cover designer is used to slapping landscape-style photos on portrait-style book covers and using the empty space for the (poorly crafted) title and byline, and decided not to change techniques when working with A.I.
Compare the “five minute cover” I whipped up over on Cover Critics in response to the most recent submission; not exactly my best effort, and I was working with inferior equipment while crafting all the text on the cover as mentioned, but acquiring that image from the DeepAI engine and trimming it to fit the desired cover ratio was a cinch! There’s no good reason the designer of this cover couldn’t have filled it the same way while still having plenty of “dead space” on the top and bottom of the image for the captioning.
You need a tag (or more than one) for AI. I know a lot of people hate it, and I understand the ethical arguments about it, but if someone really can’t do any better, an image of this sort could be used to make a cover that would be OK if a bit bland. But not by filling up the rest of the shape needed for a cover with peach and awful black text, lol.
It looks like guy on bench has two left hands. And the shadows on the people feel like the sun is only 50 feet behind them
I just noticed the lamps on the basketball backboard pole. Lamps. 2 lamps, one above the other and aimed right down the net. No civil engineer worth hiser salt would allow that.
Do we know who the author is? And I’m going to stop looking now before I find a lot more identifiably wrong in this world.
For all the glitches, the A.I. art’s not bad. One does—however—have to wonder why the designer felt the need to use a landscape ratio picture on a portrait ratio book cover: most A.I. text-to-image generators come with adjustable image ratio settings, and even if the image’s ratio isn’t a perfect match for your book cover’s ratio, a little cropping in post-production can usually fix that. Maybe the cover designer is used to slapping landscape-style photos on portrait-style book covers and using the empty space for the (poorly crafted) title and byline, and decided not to change techniques when working with A.I.
Compare the “five minute cover” I whipped up over on Cover Critics in response to the most recent submission; not exactly my best effort, and I was working with inferior equipment while crafting all the text on the cover as mentioned, but acquiring that image from the DeepAI engine and trimming it to fit the desired cover ratio was a cinch! There’s no good reason the designer of this cover couldn’t have filled it the same way while still having plenty of “dead space” on the top and bottom of the image for the captioning.
There’s nothing attached to your post at Cover Critics.
Which is still an improvement.