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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
by 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 agoSlight 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 agoLeaving 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.