Seeing musicians start to adopt AI art for cover art makes me so sad. Album art's a real part of the music for me; even something slapped together out of stock art feels like it's got more effort to me than something AI-generated that my eyes just slides off. Don't want to see that in my library.
if you have the means to create music, you have the means to produce a unique album cover
speaking from past experience, it is really not hard to take a picture with your phone and/or use a free/🏴☠️ image editor (even on your phone) to get something cool with zero experience, i promise
see also "no artistic skills" isn't real by @hthrflwrs
web
- PhotoMosh free, you can get even more fx by paying though, but the free ones are all you need
- Befunky free, better quality than PhotoMosh, avoid the green dots those are watermarked FX
- JPEG Zone by @wavebeem freeeeee and chosting
android phone
- Glitch Lab by Ilixa image destroyer, free no ads, but you can buy more FX for like $9 otp (i use this)
- Mirror Lab, Chroma Lab by Ilixa also are cool
- One Lab by Ilixa tons of different FX, combines all of Ilixa's other apps, free no ads, and you can buy more FX otp or monthly (i use this)
- Glitch Lab by gmikhail image destroyer, ad supported, $11 otp (i use this)
- Magic Fluids by Mad Scientist is a cool little fluid simulation app, take a screenshot and then chop it up
- Snapseed a lightroom-esque photo editor recommended by @rowie324!
- many many others to play with
desktop
- Krita image editor and painting app, open source (i use this)
- GNU Image Manipulation Program image editor, has quite a few different effects
- GLITCHET RESOURCES
- A Glitch Tutorial on editing images with a TEXT editor, not kidding
- Audacity the AUDIO editor, can be used to mangle images! (example 1 by chostie @thee-identity, example 2 by chostie @RobinProblem) recommended by @trashbees! and here is some helper software with a list of tutorials by @glitchwolfe!
- ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick commandline image manipulation (i use this)
ios
not my forte, but here are some leads, let me know if you have any recommendations
- Lisctle of Glitch Apps
- Listcle of Texture Apps
- Listicle of Image Editors
- Snapseed also on iOS - recommended by @rowie324!
images
using random images i already had on the device, i clicked random stuff for a bit
- #1 - Glitch Lab by gmikail and One Lab by Ilixa, phone pic of a craft mat being unboxed
- #2 - Mirror Lab by Ilixa and Glitch Lab by gmikail, phone pic of literally spinach pasta i am not joking
- #3 - Befunky, accidental digital camera photo of the inside of a car when the shutter button got bumped
- #4 - PhotoMosh, image of pyramid texts from my Beef with Osiris post
