Never Use Stock Photos in Podcasting Again

Use these images instead, or easily make your own using AI like DALL-E 2.

Erik Jones
8 min readJan 8, 2023
Created using DALL-E 2.

It’s no secret for anyone who reads or writes about podcasts that the images that go along with the writing can be incredibly bland and repetitive. It’s endless microphones and various other podcasting equipment. You read enough in this space, and you are bound to start seeing a few specific images over and over again.

So for the sake of never seeing a generic microphone sitting on a desk ever again, below are some images you are free to use (or better, to take the prompts and create your own).

But first, tips on getting started yourself to play around in this new unlimited sandbox.

A quick word on different AI image tools

The three most buzzed about AI tools are DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. All three are amazing, but DALL-E 2 was the first to make a splash, and I find it to be the easiest to get started quickly with, and produces the best variety of images that work well within articles. Some of the other tools have a bias towards a certain look that you need to work towards to avoid. I think a progression that makes sense is to start with DALL-E 2 as a way to understand how this all works, and then play…

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Erik Jones

Writing about podcasts and creativity. Check out https://www.hurtyourbrain.com/ to never miss an article and to get podcast recommendations that make you think.