Image Generation: AI Art for Content
Use your OpenClaw agent to generate custom images, illustrations, and graphics for your content without design tools or stock photo subscriptions.
What You Will Get
After this walkthrough, you will be able to generate custom images for any content need through a simple chat conversation. Your agent crafts detailed prompts, sends them to an image generation service, and returns high-quality visuals you can use in blog posts, social media, email newsletters, presentations, and more.
Stock photos are generic and overused. Custom design is expensive and slow. AI image generation sits in the sweet spot: unique visuals, fast production, and zero design skills required. Your agent acts as your creative director, translating your ideas into precise prompts that produce the images you envision.
The workflow produces everything from abstract illustrations and photorealistic scenes to infographic elements and branded graphics. Over time, you build a library of generated assets that give your content a distinctive visual identity.
How to Generate Images via Chat
From concept to finished visual
Connect to an Image Generation Service
Set up a connection to an image generation API through your RunTheAgent dashboard. Your agent uses this connection to send generation requests and retrieve images. Configure the connection with your preferred settings: default resolution, output format, and any content filters.
Describe What You Need
Tell your agent what the image should depict, the intended use (blog header, social post, presentation slide), and any style preferences. Be specific about composition, colors, mood, and subject matter. For example: 'A minimalist illustration of a person working at a standing desk, soft blue and white palette, clean lines, suitable as a blog post header.'
Let the Agent Craft the Prompt
Your agent translates your description into a detailed generation prompt optimized for the image service. It adds technical parameters like style keywords, aspect ratio, quality settings, and any negative prompts to exclude unwanted elements. Review the prompt and approve it before generation.
Generate and Review
Your agent sends the prompt and returns the generated image. Most services produce multiple variations at once, giving you options to choose from. Review the images and select the one closest to your vision, or tell the agent what to adjust for the next round.
Iterate Until It Is Right
Image generation often requires 2 to 4 iterations. Tell your agent exactly what to change: 'Make the background darker,' 'Remove the text element,' 'Make it more photorealistic,' or 'Change the color scheme to green and gold.' Each iteration gets closer to your target. Your agent keeps track of what has worked and what has not.
Download and Catalog
Download the final image and ask your agent to save the prompt and settings used to generate it. This catalog lets you recreate similar images later or produce variations for different content pieces. Over time, you build a library of proven prompts organized by style and use case.
Tips and Best Practices
Develop a Consistent Visual Style
Share an existing image whose style you like and ask your agent to analyze it. The agent extracts style descriptors that it can reuse across all future image prompts, giving your content a consistent visual identity without a design team.
Generate Images in Batches
When planning a blog series or social media calendar, generate all the images in one session. Give your agent a list of image needs with descriptions and it produces prompts and generates images for the entire batch. This is faster and ensures visual consistency.
Pair Images with Content Generation
When using the blog post generation workflow, ask your agent to produce a featured image at the same time. It can generate an image that matches the article's topic, tone, and key visual metaphors.
Respect Usage Rights
Check the terms of your image generation service regarding commercial use, attribution, and content restrictions. Ask your agent to summarize the relevant terms so you know your rights before publishing generated images.
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