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Cover Art

I will include here a wide range of things that I have tried and been dissatisfied with the results.

Printing professional looking book covers on office paper in a home printer is HARD. Perhaps impossible is you cannot compromise.

Before telling you what does not work I will expain where I am at: i.e. my current best compromise.

Sticking to either stock A4 office paper, using inkjet photopaper for special projects.
Use a cheap color inkjet with cheap 3rd party ink self-refilled cartridges. Nothing to add!.
Laminating my A6 and less books with wide (~15cm) clear box sealing tape.
For office paper sticking to Brown, Tan, Blue, Green tones as much as possible. Switch to Photo paper if not possible.
Taking photos deliberately composed for cover and sitable themes and asssembling a library. These
Some but not yet satisfactory progess with SDXL Dalle2 and etc generally the resolution in poor.
Upscaling aps are becoming usable
Inkscape is great for composing an fitting low res above into a context.
XeLaTex instead of pdfLaTeX allows you to use same fonts in Body as you can use in Inktext