Use Image 2 as your visual storyboard

Most marketers fire up a video generator with a single prompt and hope the AI will piece it together. But the output loses pace, character is inconsistent, product details are missing…

A storyboard solves this by converting your idea into controlled frames before a single second of video is generated.

Instead of describing an entire scene in one massive prompt, you build a visual map first. Each panel then becomes an individual reference image inside your video generator.

Here’s how to run it:

• Create your storyboard: Use our prompt as a base: “Create a cinematic 3×3 storyboard grid that tells one cohesive, realistic, emotionally engaging story built around a single fictional luxury men’s fragrance. The same perfume bottle and the same male protagonist must appear consistently across all 9 panels. This is one fragrance, one man, one story. [read more…]”
• Feed it into your video generator: Paste the finished storyboard as an image reference into Seedance 2.
• Write a focused prompt: Guide Seedance 2 to animate your storyboard into a cohesive sequence — don’t just describe a scene, describe the motion.
• Build your A/B variants: Generate several distinct storyboard versions so you have multiple hooks ready to launch and test simultaneously.

Extra tip: Image 2 can generate a functional QR code. Use this prompt: “High-contrast, perfectly flat, black-and-white QR code that scans correctly to the URL “yourwebsite.com”. The QR code must be valid, functional, and isolated on a white background.”

Turn amateur product photos into high-converting ads

The most practical use case in the entire toolkit: take a poorly lit desk photo and turn it into a test-ready campaign asset in minutes. Wow. Just wow.

Every e-commerce marketer knows the problem of a great product with a terrible photo.

Now, just upload a raw product photo and completely reconstruct the scene around it: premium lighting, new backgrounds, surrounding ingredients, realistic shadows, and platform-specific formats.

The product stays intact. Everything else gets better.

Here’s how to run it:

• Shoot a clean base photo: Snap your product against a neutral background. The clearer the product, the more Image 2 has to work with.
• Instruct the model precisely: Tell Image 2 to preserve the core product while overhauling everything surrounding it.
• Use our prompt as a starting point: “Create a professional advertising image based on the uploaded reference photo of the fictional Velmora chocolate packaging. Use the reference image only to preserve the recognizable identity of the fictional brand [read more…]”
• Lock in your format: Specify your aspect ratio directly in the prompt — 1:1 for feed, 4:5 for Meta Ads, 9:16 for Stories and Reels, 16:9 for banners.
• Generate three distinct versions: A studio product shot, a lifestyle ad, and a visual before/after concept. That’s a testable set, not just a single asset.

Under the radar tip: Marketers are quietly using ultra-simple prompts like “360 equirectangular image of…” to produce assets suitable for immersive views and virtual tour concepts. Looks impressive every time.

Build a professional brand kit from scratch

Build a cohesive visual language before you start scaling ad production.

Most marketers generate one-off graphics and never build a system around them. That’s why they get a feed looking like a result of three different agencies working with three different briefs.

A brand kit built in Image 2 fixes this. Generate a single master board containing your color palette, typography mood, ad layout examples, photo styles, social mockups, packaging concepts, and composition rules. All in one pass.

Here’s how to run it:

• Write your three-sentence brand brief: What you sell, who you’re talking to, and how the customer should feel. That’s the entire brief. Keep it tight.
• Prompt for a master board: Ask for a single 3×3 grid or a 12-panel presentation board and not individual assets.
• Pack the prompt with specifics: Logo placeholder, color palette, font mood, ad layouts, photo styles, a sample social post, a landing page hero, and a banner. The more context you give, the more useful the output.
• Generate three distinct directions: A minimalist version, a premium version, and a loud, bold version. Pick one winner.
• Use the winning board as your persistent reference: Feed it back into every future prompt to lock in your visual style across all subsequent assets.

Pro tip: Early users and official OpenAI materials are leaning hard into Image 2’s multi-panel storytelling capabilities: manga pages, comic strips, storyboards, and sequences that hold strict style and character consistency across every frame.

It’s an underutilized option for plotting out ads, Shorts, trailers, and video pre-production content.

Putting it all together

Image 2 upgrades image quality, but also improves your workflow.

You can move from a raw idea to a testable creative fast, whether it’s a storyboard, a product ad, or a brand kit.

But there’s one thing worth noting: Image 2 won’t replace creative thinking. Feed it a weak brief and you’ll get a prettier version of a weak brief. Nothing more.

The best results come from treating the model like a creative operator and art director rolled into one. Give it a goal, a format, brand context, and clear quality criteria. Good luck!