Hello. What kind of AI cover generators do you use for stories? Are they free?
Hi! Thank you for asking! These are the a couple ones that I use/recommend:
^ This one is rather simple but super efficient; and like it states, there is no sign-up needed and it's completely free! There are tons of different art styles including tattoo designs, manga, and pixel art!
^ There are a couple of limits on this site; you must sign up and if you don't want to pay (like me) you can generate 5 images per day. However, I would definitely consider this one much more complex compared to the preceding recommendation! (You can not only use text-to-image, but there's also image-to-image, pose-to-image, face swapping, and real time AI painter)
^ Not sure if some of you guys know, but Canva actually released an AI art generator! Since it's Canva, I believe you must sign-up, but the first fifty tries are completely free! I used up all my tries a year ago, so things may have changed (but I doubt they have).
^ Also no sign-up or pay needed! I haven't experimented with it much, but it seems to run pretty smoothly!
^ Saw this recommended somewhere on social media, but when I attempted to try it, I got told that it was down due to updates and would be back up later. Feel free to check it out! (Says there's no sign-up or pay needed, either).
As of right now, these are all that I got! Please keep in mind that using AI art as a cover should only be utilized online, but other than that, I hope these were what you needed!
Happy writing~
3hks :)
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Just saw an AI art app advert that really made my hackles rise.
It was like "turn your child's drawings into artwork with one touch" and then clips of scanning like a kids drawing and it becoming like detailed/polished/whatever and like ...ew??!!
Celebrate your kids drawings for what they are and encourage them to have fun and make art that's truly their own.
Like if I drew something when I was little and my mum just put it through an AI scanner to make it 'proper' or 'real artwork' (esp if that AI one was printed or put on the fridge etc) I would be upset and draw less.
It feels like it's saying the kids stuff not art? Idk something about that and really got to me. Let kids drawings be and look like kids drawings.
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It's honestly so sad that AI vocal/singing synthesis is given such a bad name due to AI art and AI covers floating around making people think AI vocal synth softwares like VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, ACE Studio, etc. are morally wrong.
AI art? Yeah, it's bad! It trains itself on artwork taken from other artists without their own permission. It also strives to make it so that people don't need to pay artists any money when they can just generate an image with their mind.
AI covers made with characters or celebrities, using software such as Diff-SVC, RVC, and DiffSinger? Yeah, it can be bad! It makes silly cover songs and such trained on audio by real people, usually without their consent. That could even be used to imitate/spread misinformation about someone.
But? AI vocal synthesizer software are made and used ethically.
Software such as VOCALOID6, CeVIO, SynthV, ACE Studio, Neutrino, etc. use voice and song samples given by people who are usually professional vocalists with express consent and permission, and they are properly compensated for their work.
AI vocal synth doesn't use anything without consent and, really, it's inherently just a tool that helps you make your own things, it can't make things for you.
Hell, if you look at vocal synthesis that /doesn't/ use AI, such as VOCALOID1-5, UTAU, and DeepVocal, from a users perspective, whether or not AI is involved, it's really the same, AI is only being used to make it more closely match human singing. It's not making anything for you. It's not sourced from non-consenting parties. It is a tool.
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TryannoMax, Issue 25, October 1977
Cocytus Comics Group, Story by Barry McDermit, lines by Midge Joulet & Dale Ethree, Colors and Letters by H. Haddaway.
Issue #25. It's a quiet day so the Core team gets some R&R. TryannoMax hunts down Dr. Underfang for a long-overdue confrontation, DeinoSteve and PteroDarla finally have that date, and Wally Manmoth visits home.
So when Ape-Tomic Pyle returns from the grave to exact his revenge, only TriceraBruce remains to stand in his way. One wounded dinoid against a living nuclear ape-pocalypse, with the populace of Wisconsin in the balance.
Running for an astounding 80 issues, TyrannoMax was the headline comic from Cocytus in the 1970s, and was the primary motivator behind Buzby-Spurlock buying out Cocytus in '83.
While the comic series is considered the root of the empire that would create the animated series and live action movie, the concept was first introduced in short story "Humanity, My Young Cousin" in the pulp-sci-fi magazine Stunning True-Life Tales of Science Fiction, a few years earlier.
May be posting interior pages soon.
Full details under the fold.
TyrannoMax is my AI dinosaur test kitchen, where I see how ideas work out before trying them on more serious projects.
Here, I've used Dall-E 3 through Bing and Midjourney to create comic assets, which I then de-color and rework into inks in a similar fashion to my AI-comic reworkings like Robots Ruined the Internet and Let's Gib About Ib, or any of my other fake comic covers. TriceraBruce and Ape-Tomic Pyle were generated with Dall-E 3, and the background was made in Midjourney.
This makes the basic inks, from there I correct anatomical problems, cleanup AI wonk, and generally re-ink where things are needed.
Once I have the "inks" its then a matter of doing the coloring and graphic design work the old fashioned way. I used my recreation of the 1981 DC comics palette for my colors, used post-processing to get the printed look, and there you go.
My prompt format for the characters is:
A -anthro wearing , long tail (if a dinosaur) , comic panel by 1968, in the style of 1960s Marvel comics
Because all weights are averaged a bit, to get a 1970s comic look, you have to prompt for late 60s, ortherwise it looks late 80s.
Background prompt was:
a distant city, a rocket launches from its center, flying toward the sky, comic illustration by jack kirby, inked lines, flat color, blue sky, green grass, orange rocket, from 1968
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