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Generate four-card social carousel images from Google Sheets rows with ImageStep
Runs when a Google Sheets row is added, generates four carousel images with one consistent character via ImageStep, publishes them and writes the image URLs back to the row.
What it does
## Same character on every carousel card Every row you add to a Google Sheet becomes four social-carousel images with the same character on all of them, published, with the four URLs written back into the row. Built on ImageStep, an image API for automations. ### How it works 1. Google Sheets Trigger picks up a new row (headline, subline). 2. Build the Prompt writes the row's scene with {{subject.hero}} where the character goes; ImageStep fills in the wording saved on the preset. It is a Code node because n8n reads {{ }} in a field as its own expression. 3. Generate 4 Cards runs the ImageStep preset carousel-brand with Count 4. Its subject (reference images plus a locked description) goes with every generation, so the fortieth row draws the character the first one did. 4. Four URLs Per Row and Write URLs Back put url1 to url4, the job id and the status into the same row. ### Setup 1. Install the ImageStep node (n8n-nodes-imagestep) and add an ImageStep credential with an API key from imagestep.dev/keys. 2. Save the carousel-brand preset once: the recipe's script does it from your reference images. 3. Make a sheet with the columns headline, subline, url1 to url4, jobId and status, and pick it in both Google Sheets nodes. 4. Turn on Dry Run in Generate 4 Cards for the first row: it prices the run and spends nothing. ### Customization tips - Change the scene wording in Build the Prompt, and keep {{subject.hero}}. - Count sets the cards per row; Version pins a preset version. - More pipelines and the pictures a real run made: imagestep.dev/docs/recipes.
The steps
- Google Sheets Trigger
- Build the Prompt
- Generate 4 Cards
- Four URLs Per Row
- Write URLs Back
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