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Watercolour book covers with AI

Portrait cover art with room for a title block and author name. In a watercolour style: soft washes, bleeding edges and paper white.

Prompts to start from

Each one is a book covers subject with the watercolour style words added: watercolour wash, wet on wet, paper texture

1. a lighthouse on a storm cliff, watercolour wash, wet on wet, paper texture Try it
2. a mossy forest door half open with light inside, watercolour wash, wet on wet, paper texture Try it
3. minimal geometric cover in navy and gold, watercolour wash, wet on wet, paper texture Try it

Settings

• Shape: tall 9:16. Use 576x1024 on standard models or 1152x2048 on the 2K model.
• Cheapest way to try it: Fluently XL at $0.010 an image, so $0.10 for ten.
• New accounts get 3 free images a day on the cheaper models.

Tips

• Reserve a clear band for the title.
• Pick one strong subject. Busy covers fail as thumbnails.
• Leave empty paper in the prompt for authentic highlights.
• Wet on wet gives dreamy blends.

Pick a model

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