Cover Art - How Much Effort?

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Or we just accept that our characters live in an alternate universe where extra body parts and odd adjustments to the basic human body plan are the norm. 😁

The Lushiverse, coming to your Internet is 2026...

It worked from Marilyn Monroe, allegedly. lol

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She's cute, but I'm wondering how she uses that eleventh finger. 😉 I sometimes have to crop my images very carefully to hide an extra appendage.

I was so busy looking at her face i didn't even notice the finger, really liked this one.

I was working in Nightcafe earlier trying to make a woman skinnier and nothing worked though I only tried about 5 or 6 prompt edits. I'll have to play around more to find the right wording. Based on what I see in the thread and on stories AI is capable of producing some really decent results. I'll for sure keep using it because its easy to manipulate and you don't have to worry about copyright.

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I was working in Nightcafe earlier trying to make a woman skinnier and nothing worked though I only tried about 5 or 6 prompt edits. I'll have to play around more to find the right wording.

Because AI is developed by bros, a woman defaults to an attractive, young, white woman. I've struggled to find the right wording to get a nice-looking MILF. If I try to make her slightly older, the AI makes her a wrinkly old hag. If I try to make her slightly fatter, the AI makes her morbidly obese. As you've found, it takes some work to get it right.

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Because AI is developed by bros,

Yeah, just try asking for small breasts. Ain't no such thing, apparently 🤣

I’m enjoying these posts!

I haven’t had trouble getting curves. I just say “sexy curvy” and get it or “model figure” to get a thin gal. I’m working on a story for this one about mannequins who come to life in the Christmas window display at midnight. I really like it. I think they look like mannequins and AI got bodies I wanted. Our stores here have plus-sized mannequins mixed with regular now which I love.

I would totally bang the one on the left, and I don't usually go for blondes. 😅

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I’m enjoying these posts!

I haven’t had trouble getting curves. I just say “sexy curvy” and get it or “model figure” to get a thin gal. I’m working on a story for this one about mannequins who come to life in the Christmas window display at midnight. I really like it. I think they look like mannequins and AI got bodies I wanted. Our stores here have plus-sized mannequins mixed with regular now which I love.

That thick lady in red is marvelous.

I used ChatGPT for a story and was stunned it came out just as I wanted. Haven't used it since because getting it to be more NSFW is an annoyance.

It can still take me a while to get Perchance to generate that base image that I want (although sometimes it “gets it” right away), but I spend a lot less time on that than I used to take searching porn sites for images I wanted to use.

When you did that image for Minnie’s Merry Mall Christmas last year. Seeker4, it made me go “Whoa.” It’s hard to believe that was just a year ago, and look where we are today. Not only am I using AI for all my new cover images, but I’ve gone back and used it to generate new cover images for many of my older stories. I’ve become aware that there are porn companies making a profit center out of filing “nuisance” lawsuits for people downloading and sharing copyrighted porn, so it seems prudent to me to avoid publicly available porn of unknown provenance completely.

I do think it is worth the time it takes to create a good cover image. I don’t think it’s the #1 factor driving viewership, but in my observation it seems pretty significant, especially the first day or two after publication when your story is shown on the front page (and, if you’re lucky, the Trending gallery) and competing for new readers’ attention based heavily on that visual.

I create two images for all my new stories: one “clean” one to make the official cover image and which follows Lush’s rules for that, and one “dirty” image that is more explicit, which I post to my Wall when the story is published. Just in the past week, someone has commented on a new story saying it was that image that drew them in, so I know cover images matter.