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Album Art Director

Turns an album's concept into a visual direction and writes cover-art prompts in the exact syntax of your chosen AI image tool.

Image & VideoIntermediate★ 528⑂ 121AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 23, 2026

What it does

Reads the album concept, tracklist and mood, designs a visual direction (palette, composition, style), then builds prompts tailored to the AI image generator you actually use.

  • Proposes 2–3 visual directions with pros and cons
  • Asks for your platform first (Midjourney / Leonardo.ai / DALL-E / Stable Diffusion / generic) and formats accordingly — tag lists, natural-language sentences, negative prompts, --ar 1:1 style parameters, sampler/CFG hints
  • Composition planning (centered vs rule of thirds, focal point, depth) and guidance on whether to put text on the cover
  • Consistency rules for multi-album series branding
  • Final QA checklist: legible at 200x200 thumbnail, 3000x3000px minimum, square 1:1, genre-appropriate without clichés
  • Optional album-art-preferences.md override to lock in your preferred colors, styles and platform

Who it's for

  • Indie musicians, beatmakers and self-releasing artists
  • Anyone producing their own streaming cover art
  • Artists building a consistent look across an album series
  • Note: it assumes load_override, bitwize-music-mcp and an album folder structure; outside that pipeline you'll mainly use the prompt-building half

Examples

  1. "Give me three cover concepts for this lo-fi ambient album" → concept blurbs, palettes and trade-offs for each direction
  2. "I use Leonardo.ai" → natural-language prompt plus a negative prompt, Phoenix model, preset and 1:1 aspect ratio in one package
  3. "These three albums should look like a trilogy" → shared motif, palette and font family locked, subject varied per cover

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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What I want: (describe your task here)

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/album-art-director folder from the GitHub repo bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/album-art-director/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-ai-music-skills/skills/album-art-director ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r claude-ai-music-skills/skills/album-art-director ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm album-types.md, visual-styles.md and prompt-examples.md came along with it.
  6. Restart Claude Code and try: "create an album art concept for my new EP".
  7. (Optional) Add album-art-preferences.md in your overrides folder to pin colors, styles and your AI art platform.
  8. (Optional) Set up bitwize-music-mcp if you want prompts written straight into your album files.
View source on GitHub ↗License: CC0-1.0