AI Album Art Tutorial: Cover Design That Reads at Thumbnail
Design AI album covers that survive Spotify's 64-pixel thumbnail — composition, palette, type, and the iteration loop that gets you to a final in under an hour.
🖌️ AI Image Tool Tutorials
Midjourney, Nano Banana, Seedream, Flux — getting started and comparisons.
The gap between AI image tools has shifted from "who looks better" to "who is more controllable." This hub focuses on practical image tooling: Midjourney parameters, Nano Banana editing, style consistency, product shots, portraits, poster layouts.
In-depth articles in this hub
AI Fantasy Character Design Tutorial: From Sheet to Splash
Build a fantasy character bible in Midjourney V7 and Flux 2: turnaround sheet, environment splash, and action variant on one face (June 2026).
AI Fashion Lookbook Tutorial: One Model, Six Outfits, One Palette
Build a 6-outfit fashion lookbook on one consistent AI model with a frozen brand palette, using Midjourney Omni Reference or Nano Banana Pro (June 2026).
How to Generate App Background Images with AI
Prompt patterns for splash, settings, onboarding, and empty-state backgrounds that sit behind your UI instead of fighting it — with exact 2026 sizes and tools.
How to Create Brand Visual Directions with AI (2026)
Use AI image models to explore 6 visual directions in an afternoon, then hand a designer real references — with the right tool and prompt for each step.
How to Create Consistent AI Character Images Across Scenes
Keep the same AI character across 20 scenes using a canonical reference, a frozen trait list, and the 2026 reference features in Midjourney V8, Nano Banana Pro, and ChatGPT.
AI Image Aspect Ratios: The 2026 Size Cheat Sheet
One reference table for every place an AI image ships — blog OG 1.91:1, Instagram 4:5, Stories 9:16, Pinterest 2:3 — plus how GPT Image 2, Midjourney, and Gemini set ratios in 2026.
AI Image Prompt Basics: 6 Components and 3 Traps (2026)
The six parts every usable AI image prompt needs, the three traps that flatten output, plus a tool comparison and copy-ready template for June 2026.
Build a Reusable AI Image Prompt Library (2026)
Stop rewriting the same image prompts every Monday. Build a 10-template library that turns recurring image work into fill-a-variable-and-ship — with model-specific syntax for Midjourney, GPT Image 2, and Imagen 4.
Fix Style Drift in AI Image Sets (2026 Workflow)
Your image series starts looking like six different artists made it. Here is the anchor-and-lock workflow that pulls a Midjourney, SDXL, or Flux set back to one voice.
AI Portrait Tutorial: 5-Slot Prompt Scaffold + Photo Vocabulary
Build realistic AI portraits with a 5-slot prompt (subject, expression, wardrobe, lighting, lens) plus the exact tools, lenses, and texture words that beat the plastic-skin default. Updated June 2026.
AI Poster Layout: Generate the Image, Set the Type Yourself
The hybrid poster workflow for June 2026: pick the right AI image model, plan negative space, then set headline type in Figma or Affinity for crisp print output.
How to Generate Product Ad Images with AI (2026)
A four-angle workflow for product ad images that sell — with the right model (Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5, Midjourney V7), real platform specs, and brand-safety guardrails.
AI Product Photography: The 5-Slot Prompt That Looks Shot, Not Rendered
A photographer's 5-slot prompt scaffold, the camera vocabulary that signals real photography, and which June-2026 model (Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Seedream 5.0) to pick per product.
AI Realistic Portrait Workflow: Skin, Eyes, Hands
The three places AI portraits fail at full resolution — plus the exact prompt vocabulary, model picks, and retouch pass that fix each.
Midjourney Beginner Guide (V7 / V8.1, 2026)
Get usable Midjourney images in 30 minutes: the one-sentence prompt formula, the 5 parameters that matter (--ar, --raw, --s, --sref, --oref), Draft Mode, and the iteration loop pros use — updated for V7 and V8.1.
Nano Banana Image Editing: The 2026 Gemini Guide
Edit photos by prompt with Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5/3 Flash & Pro Image). Pick the right model, write keep-the-rest edits, and avoid the 6 common mistakes.
Style Consistency Across an AI Image Series
Match palette, lens, and lighting across 10+ AI images with a style anchor, Midjourney --sref, Omni Reference, and Flux LoRAs (June 2026).