Feed-ready images, carousels and thumbnails that match a brand look.
Social images fail for a different reason than product shots: they are usually fine in isolation and wrong as a set. These prompts fix consistency by naming an explicit palette and a repeatable layout, so ten images look like they came from one brand.
Three-Panel Carousel
/carousel
Three related images with one consistent look, for a carousel post.
Three-panel image set featuring the attached product, designed as an Instagram carousel. Panel one: close detail shot. Panel two: product in use in context. Panel three: product with clear space for text. Identical lighting, palette and colour grade across all three — soft diffused daylight, warm neutral tones of cream, tan and soft white. Square 1:1 format each. Consistent styling so the three read as one set.
ChatGPTGemini
Branded Quote Card
/quotecard
A text-led social graphic on a textured background, on brand.
Minimal social media graphic, 1080x1350 portrait. Short quote in large clean sans-serif type, centred, with generous margins. Soft textured paper background in warm off-white. Single thin accent rule beneath the text in muted terracotta. Small brand name in the lower corner at a much smaller size. Calm editorial layout with plenty of empty space. No illustrations, no photographs, no decorative flourishes.
ChatGPTGemini
Video Thumbnail
/thumbnail
A high-contrast 16:9 thumbnail that stays readable at small sizes.
YouTube thumbnail, 16:9. Bold subject on the left third, large high-contrast text on the right occupying roughly a third of the frame. Strong colour separation between subject and background — bright subject against a deep saturated background. Heavy weight sans-serif type, maximum four words, with a subtle dark outline for legibility. Simple uncluttered composition that stays readable at thumbnail size.
ChatGPTGemini
Before & After Split
/beforeafter
A single image split down the middle showing a transformation.
Single image split vertically down the centre, showing a before state on the left and an after state on the right, divided by a thin clean white line. Identical camera angle, framing and distance on both sides so only the subject changes. Consistent lighting across both halves. Small clear labels reading BEFORE and AFTER at the top of each side in a simple sans-serif. 4:5 portrait format. Neutral background, no decorative elements.
ChatGPTGemini
Instagram Story
/story
A 9:16 vertical graphic with room for stickers and a swipe-up.
Instagram story graphic, 9:16 vertical. Subject positioned in the upper middle third of the frame. Large clear headline beneath it in bold sans-serif, maximum six words. Bottom fifth of the frame left completely empty for a link sticker. Top eighth left clear of the profile bar. Soft solid background in a single brand colour with a subtle vertical gradient. Clean, uncluttered, no decorative shapes.
ChatGPTGemini
Customer Quote Card
/testimonial
A clean card presenting a real customer quote.
Minimal social graphic, 1080x1080. A short customer quote in medium-weight serif type, left-aligned, occupying the upper two thirds with generous margins. Attribution line beneath in small uppercase sans-serif with wide letter-spacing. Warm off-white background with a very subtle paper texture. A single small accent mark in muted terracotta beside the quote. No photographs, no illustrations, no quotation-mark graphics.
ChatGPTGemini
Feature Callout
/feature
A product image with clean labelled callouts pointing at features.
Product image of the attached item centred on a plain light background, with three thin clean callout lines extending outward to short text labels. Lines simple and straight, meeting the product at clear points. Labels in small sans-serif, maximum four words each, evenly spaced around the product. Soft even studio lighting, gentle contact shadow. Generous margin so no label sits near the edge. Clean technical presentation, no decorative elements.
ChatGPTGemini
Sale Announcement
/announcement
A bold promotional graphic that stays readable at feed size.
Bold promotional social graphic, 1080x1350. Very large headline occupying the middle third, maximum four words, in heavy sans-serif. Smaller supporting line beneath in the same family at a much lighter weight. Strong flat background colour with high contrast against the type. Small brand name at the bottom. Product image small in the lower right corner, cleanly cut out. No gradients, no starbursts, no decorative badges.
ChatGPTGemini
Nine-Post Grid
/grid
Nine images designed to look coherent as a profile grid.
Set of nine square images designed to work together as an Instagram profile grid. Alternating types: product shot, quote card, detail shot, repeating. Identical treatment throughout — soft diffused light, palette of warm cream, clay and soft black, matching colour grade and contrast. No two adjacent images of the same type. Consistent margin and visual weight so the grid reads as one designed surface rather than nine separate posts.
ChatGPTGemini
Working with social media visuals prompts
1Write your palette down before you start — three colours, as hex codes if you have them. This is what makes a set look like your brand rather than a template.
2Generate the whole set in one request rather than one image at a time. Consistency comes from a single instruction covering all panels.
3State the aspect ratio explicitly. 4:5 occupies more feed space than square and is usually the better choice.
4Check legibility by shrinking the image on your phone. If the text is unreadable at that size, it is unreadable in the feed.
5Keep the same treatment sentence saved somewhere. Reusing it verbatim next month is what keeps a feed coherent over time.
Mistakes that ruin social media visuals results
Letting the model decorate
Unless you say “no gradients, no decorative shapes, no icons”, it will add them, and the set stops looking designed.
Different prompts per panel
Describe each panel’s content differently, but keep the lighting, palette and grade in one shared sentence. Otherwise you get three unrelated images.
Too much text
Beyond about twelve words, letterforms start to break. Social graphics should be short anyway.
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