Solmi's album cover maker is an AI album cover generator and a cover editor in one. Describe your record, pick a style, and generate one to four square variants, or start from your own image. Then add the album title and artist name, choose the font, color, and position, adjust the look, and download a PNG or JPG at 3000 × 3000 or 4000 × 4000 px. Using your own image, editing, and downloading are free with no signup; AI variants use credits on a free account.
Streaming services reject artwork that is too small, off-square, or in the wrong color space. The album cover maker downloads a 3000 by 3000 or 4000 by 4000 pixel square: 3000 is the minimum most distributors ask for, and 4000 meets Apple Music's current minimum. Requirements change, so check your distributor's current rules, and crop a copy to 16:9 for a YouTube thumbnail.
| Platform | Size | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Spotify | Square, 640 to 10,000 px | JPG, PNG, or TIFF, sRGB |
| Apple Music | At least 4000 x 4000 px | JPG or PNG, RGB |
| Most distributors | Commonly at least 3000 x 3000 px | JPG or PNG, RGB |
| Bandcamp | 1400 x 1400 px or larger, square | JPG or PNG |
| SoundCloud | 800 x 800 px or larger, square | JPG or PNG |
| YouTube thumbnail | 1280 x 720 px, 16:9 | JPG or PNG under 2 MB |
Most listeners first see your cover at about 60 pixels wide in a playlist. One clear subject, a strong contrast between figure and background, and a limited palette read at that size; busy collages and thin script fonts turn to mud. Describe the mood and the single focal image in your prompt, generate a few variants, then shrink each one to a thumbnail before you choose. Set the artist name and title in the editor, large and away from the edges, rather than asking the AI to render letters.
Lo-fi and bedroom pop: a soft film photograph of an empty room at dusk, warm grain, pastel palette. Trap and drill: high-contrast black and white portrait, hard flash, one accent color. Indie rock: hand-painted collage, torn paper edges, muted primaries. Electronic and house: geometric neon shapes on a dark field, subtle glow, no faces. Folk and singer-songwriter: a wide landscape at golden hour, natural textures, small figure in frame. Metal: engraved illustration, symmetrical composition, one strong symbol. Add the feeling you want the listener to have in a few words, and the era it should evoke.
Need a name for the cover? Get one from the band name generator and draft the lead single with the AI lyrics generator. Releasing an instrumental or a remix? Split the original with the stem splitter and tag the new version's tempo and key with the BPM and key finder.
Learn the album cover size for every platform and how to make one.
Click "Use your own image" and pick a photo or artwork from your device. It opens in the editor in your browser, with no upload and no account. Add the album title and artist name, choose the font, color, size, and position, add a backdrop or filter if you want one, and download a PNG or JPG at 3000 × 3000 or 4000 × 4000 px. To generate the artwork with AI instead, sign in with a free account: each variant uses credits, the total shows on the button before you generate, free accounts get free daily credits, and a variant that fails is refunded.
Yes. Your description and the style preset you pick become the prompt for Solmi's AI image generator, which paints one to four square variants with no lettering in them, so you choose between real options rather than a template with your title dropped in. Pick the strongest and set the title and artist name as real text in the editor, sharp and spelled exactly as you typed them, or generate again with a different style or description until one fits the record.
Pick 3000 × 3000 or 4000 × 4000 pixels next to the download buttons; every file is exactly that size, as a PNG or a JPG, and images that aren't square are center-cropped. 3000 × 3000 is the minimum most distributors ask for, and 4000 × 4000 meets Apple Music's current minimum. AI variants are generated at 2048 × 2048 and enlarged to the size you pick; for a sharper file, run the artwork through Solmi's AI image upscaler and open the result here with "Use your own image".
Commercial use of what you create on Solmi comes with the paid plans and credit packs; creations on the free plan are for personal use. Your own images stay yours. Check your distributor's policy on AI-generated artwork before you release.
No. Every prompt asks for artwork without text, because AI lettering often comes out misspelled. You type the album title and artist name in the editor instead, choose the font, color, size, and position, and they are drawn into the downloaded file.