Make sure to give to your fans and new public a good first impression of you, that’s the key to discover your music. Your album art needs to represent you and your music, so put special attention of what do you want to express thru it. Don’t just settle for the first raw image you find (or a selfie) take your time to find the right visual and tweak it to make it your own.
TIPS for you new cover art
- First find free images to work with. On internt there is websites that provide free photos that you can download and edit to make album artwork.
- Take care of the quality. You album cover will need to be High Quality for one reason: Is your first impression.
- Get inspiration of your favorite artist. Alsok yourself that if your cover art is so attractive that if you see it on store you wanna listen that artist, ask to others the same, this could be useful to have a better idea of what is the best for your cover art.
- Print your style on your album cover. Think about what is most characteristic of your music, your style and your personality and put on it.
- Check the tendencies. See the most trendy music videos, fashion, series and more, everything is useful.
- Use any tecnique to increse your album cover. Don’t limit yourself to using only one (bore) photo, try different techniques such as photomontage, 2D illustration, 3D or a combination of several in the same image.
Here’s some examples of cover art by our Indiefy artist
Biztec, a talented mexican band. Available on iTunes & Spotify
Oceanidas listen now!
Teesta check his music here!
Album cover size and specifications
To distribute your music to Spotify, Apple Music and ever other major streaming platform, your album art has to fit some criteria. Follow these guidelines and you’ll be good to go when it comes time to release:
Album cover size:
- Minimum 2000 x 2000 pixels
- A square
- Minimum 72 DPI
- JPG or PNG format
- Album cover specs:
- No blurriness or pixelation
- No URLs, hashtags or handles
- No pornographic images
- No references to brands
Some app and online wesite that can be useful
You don’t need to have an expensive PC or photo eith programs to make a stunning cover art, only your creativity and commitment to your work. There’s so many online tools to work your album cover, we let you some recommendations.
