Using AI Images In Your Book Cover Design Process With Damon Freeman

How can you expand the possibilities of book cover images with AI? What are some of the controversies and how can authors and designers work together with AI tools to create original design? Book cover designer Damon Freeman discusses his views. There are lots of links in the show notes below to specific resources, but of course, the AI space moves fast, so always check the Terms and Conditions of any site you want to investigate further. I also mention the free webinar on AI Ads for Authors with Mark Dawson and James Blatch. Today's show is sponsored by my wonderful patrons who fund my brain so I have time to think about and discuss these futurist topics impacting authors. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio — and my tutorial on how I use Midjourney. You can support the show atwww.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Damon Freeman is the founder and creative director of Damonza.com, creating custom book cover design and interior formatting for authors. You can listen above or onyour favorite podcast appor read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Using AI tools as part of the creative process How Midjourney works Discussion on copyright How AI tools are enabling the creation of unique cover images that have been almost impossible before If AI will be able to do everything, how will creatives make a living? Tips for working with your cover designer and incorporating AI Damon has some great articles on AI images in book covers here, and he also mentions James at GoOnWrite who has an article for self-published authors around AI and images here. You can find Damon at Damonza.com. Transcript of Interview with Damon Freeman Joanna: Damon Freeman is the founder and creative director of Damonza.com, creating custom book cover design and interior formatting for authors. So welcome to the show, Damon. Damon: Thank you, Joanna. Thanks for having me. I appreciate the opportunity to chat. I'm really looking forward to it. Joanna: Oh, me too. So we're going to talk specifically about AI images as part of the design process today. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you, your design background, and how you've been working with authors for over a decade. Damon: I trained as a graphic designer, and I was working in normal graphic design businesses. I started my own company as a general kind of graphic designer many, many years ago. Over time—you know, it was going pretty well—but in around 2007, with the global financial crisis and all of those kinds of things, kind of everything just started falling apart, and it wasn't going well. Out of desperation, I started looking at other potential opportunities. I found a website, which maybe you've