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Best resources for designing album art

1.Adobe Photoshop

Paid: $9.99 Free trial available

Adobe Photoshop is a photo editing software that became the industry standard today used by professionals and hobbyists alike. It has plenty of features allowing amounts of photo editing jobs to be done.

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  • Leonardo Ventura

    by Leonardo Ventura

    Hard to beat the tried and true Photoshop. This is a very popular, very well supported program that can do just about anything. It may not be specifically designed for album arts, but it will certainly do the job in this regard. I might be able to fi More

2.Adobe Illustrator Draw

with in-app purchases

Adobe Illustrator Draw allows users to draw elaborated illustrations and organize all your works with this official Adobe app. You will be able to add tons of layers, use a stylus, pencils, pens, and brushes and edit your creations and export them in many different file formats. 

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  • Larry Fuller

    by Larry Fuller

    Out of all of the apps that are available to draw and edit pictures, this one stands alone. I have used this several times and it's a professional app for great pictures. Nothing stands by it.

3.Canva

Paid: $12.95 Varies by plan

Canva is a graphics design tool where users can create professional designs by curating photos, text, animations, stickers, borders, frames and more. It also features albums and scrapbooks where users may collaborate with their friends. 

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  • Hannah Wood

    by Hannah Wood

    An awesome app that allows you to create your own logos and poster. The designs are eye catching and outstanding. The app has different package levels More

  •  María Luisa Zárate

    by María Luisa Zárate

    I am a fan of Canva. I second that Canva is the best resource for designing album art. I know several individuals that own Canva because it is highly  More

4.DesignLab Studio

Free download
DesignLab allows you to produce the most attractive designs! This complete app provides you several graphics, images and fonts for making beautiful creations.
  • Arthur Johnson

    by Arthur Johnson

    DesignLab Studio is a great app for designing album art. The app allows you to create art when you are inspired, not chained to a work station. This i More

  • Janet Allen

    by Janet Allen

    DesignLab Studio is a great tool for designing album art. It's easy to use and has so many useful features to make your art really stand out.

5.Adobe Spark

Paid: $9.99 Varies by plan

Adobe Spark lets you create impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos its free graphic design app.

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  • Douglas Cooper

    by Douglas Cooper

    This is a decent resource for making album art. There may be better sources but it will be easy.

6.99designs

Free download
99designs is an online graphic design marketplace that connects businesses of all types and sizes with talented creatives around the world.
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  • Kyle Gibson

    by Kyle Gibson

    99designs is a great site for finding someone talented enough to create great album art. There are all sorts of different people on the site who are f More

  • Frances Williams

    by Frances Williams

    99designs is exactly what I need to help me to connect me with businesses. It has an easy to use interface and the support team is very responsive

7.Adobe Illustrator CC

Paid: $20.99 Varies by plan

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics editor software developed by Adobe Inc. This can be used to create different designs with its drawing tools. It is compatible with both Mac and Windows computers.

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  • Brittany Simmons

    by Brittany Simmons

    This app allows to create logo and icons. There are more products are available here. It is also easy to use this app. It is very innovative app.

  •  María Elena Gil

    by María Elena Gil

    This is the best thing for designing good album art. I use it every time I need to drop a hot new cover.

  • Heather Vargas

    by Heather Vargas

    I used this to design myself some cover at. Unfortunately it was a little clunky to use.

8.PicMonkey

Paid: $7.99 Varies by plan

PicMonkey is a creative tool for photo editing and graphic design so you can show your creativity and your style. The photo editing tool is available online and on iOS and Android devices.

  • Scott Day

    by Scott Day

    A nice little photo editor and designer, which is useful for anyone without access to a more robust graphics editing tool. Quick and easy to use, it's a lot of fun to play around with and you can do some really neat design work with this tool.

9.Zazzle - Create, Design & Shop

Free download

With Zazzle, you can buy and also design the most beautiful products!It is the right choice for those who are looking for a complete tool for creating and shopping!


  • Thomas Cox

    by Thomas Cox

    I was pleasantly surprised with the quality if a personalized travel mug from here. so reasonanly priced and adorable!! the only issue I have had from More

  • by Jessica Jones

    This is perfect! You can do so much with Zazzle. You can put anything you create on products!

10.Cover Maker

with in-app purchases

Cover Maker is an app that allows you to design your own cover photos for social networks. Select the background, crop the desired size, add text, stickers and other effects and easily upload it.

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  • Wayne Davidson

    by Wayne Davidson

    I love creating album art to keep my photos organized. With Cover Maker I can create and upload to all social networks. This gives me the creativity I always crave!

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