{"id":"vis-free-podcast-cover","audience":"freelancers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Get podcast cover art with the title only","free":false,"task":"You're designing cover art for a client's new podcast, Night Shift Notes, using Midjourney. Get Claude to write one paste-ready Midjourney prompt: a single plain-text paragraph under 100 words that ends with --ar 1:1 and a --no list. The only text is the show title \"NIGHT SHIFT NOTES\", the design must still read at thumbnail size (one bold central image), it uses the 2 hex colors, and it shows no people or faces.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Client brief - \"Night Shift Notes\" podcast\n\nHost: Dana Reyes, ER nurse. Weekly stories from people who work while everyone sleeps: nurses, bakers, truckers, security guards.\n\nLook: late night, quiet, a bit warm, not spooky. One idea: a lit window in a dark building, or a coffee cup on a car dashboard under a streetlight.\n\nColors: midnight blue #1A2340, sodium-lamp amber #F2A541.\n\nText: the client first wanted \"Night Shift Notes with Dana Reyes - Stories from the Overnight - New episodes every Tuesday\". Podcast apps show cover art at about 1 inch wide, so that won't be readable.\n\nClient asked:\n- \"Can it be a realistic photo of me in scrubs?\" (She hasn't sent a photo and we'd be inventing her face.)\n- \"Could we use the hospital's logo? They might sponsor.\"\n\nApps require square art, at least 1400 x 1400, ideally 3000 x 3000.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not naming the tool","why":"Without \"Midjourney\", the AI skips --ar 1:1 and the cover isn't square.","fix":"Add: \"End with --ar 1:1 --no people, faces, logos.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Keeping all the client's words","why":"The AI puts the full title, host name and schedule on the cover, unreadable at 1 inch.","fix":"Add: \"The only text is NIGHT SHIFT NOTES.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Inventing the host's face","why":"The AI describes a realistic nurse that would pass as the host.","fix":"Add: \"No people or faces.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Colors by mood","why":"The AI says \"moody blues\" without the codes.","fix":"Add: \"Use #1A2340 and #F2A541.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting a design write-up","why":"The AI writes headings and a few alternatives.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt, about 55 words.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the tool","patterns":["midjourney"]},{"label":"Sets the square","patterns":["--ar\\s*1\\s*:\\s*1","square"]},{"label":"Limits the text","patterns":["only text","NIGHT SHIFT NOTES"]},{"label":"Reads small","patterns":["thumbnail","small size","bold"]},{"label":"Excludes people","patterns":["no (people|faces)","--no"]}],"hint":"Podcast art is seen at the size of a stamp. Ask for one bold image, the title only, and no invented faces.","rubricLabels":["Ends with Midjourney parameters that include --ar 1:1 and a --no list","The only text it allows is 'NIGHT SHIFT NOTES' (no host name, tagline or schedule) and it asks for one bold central image that reads at small size","Names both hex codes (#1A2340 and #F2A541) and excludes people, faces and logos (in the prompt or the --no list)"]}