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I enjoy the cover art selected for the ebooks. How do you select the cover art and what sources do you like to use?

• acabal 4y ago
  Cover art must be in a fine art oil painting style, and it's up to each producer to find something thematically appropriate. Once they do we require proof of US public domain status. See https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.6.4/10-art-and-images#10.3.3 https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.6.4/10-art-and-images#10... Wikiart and Artvee are good places to start cover art research. Many museums now have explicit CC0 collections, too. Finding good public domain cover art can be extremely time consuming - it's the part of the process most likely to make a new contributor give up. But when you find a great cover, it feels great!
  • occamschainsaw 4y ago
    Slight tangent, but have you considered using these new generative models like Dall E 2[1]? So far my experience has been that they generate great oil paintings. Maybe there could also be an automated pipeline that generates oil painting covers using book titles or first sentences. [1] https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
    • robin_reala 4y ago
      Leaving aside the aesthetic considerations, the images produced from OpenAI software aren’t public domain, and so we can’t use them. See https://openai.com/api/policies/sharing-publication/ https://openai.com/api/policies/sharing-publication/ for a list of restrictions OpenAI places on the use of their generated images.