An AI creative director's repeatable system for on-brand imagery, not one-off pretty pictures.
5 steps to generate consistent brand images with Midjourney
Jamey Gannon Mar 2026
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →Image models now split by job: Nano Banana (Gemini) for editing real product photos into lifestyle scenes, ChatGPT's 4o image generation for text-heavy marketing graphics and mockups, Midjourney for brand look and campaign imagery, and Ideogram for logo concepts and typography. The founder pattern that works: keep the real product pixels and generate the world around them, rather than generating the product itself. Remember that pure AI output has no copyright protection, so keep your human edits documented.
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An AI creative director's repeatable system for on-brand imagery, not one-off pretty pictures.
Jamey Gannon Mar 2026
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →The fastest competent on-ramp if you have never touched Midjourney.
YouTube tutorial Feb 2025
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →Brand-system thinking applied to Midjourney, beyond single-image prompting.
Mark de Grasse (AI Brand Academy) Oct 2025
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →From background-removal hack to 150M downloads: the product-photo playbook founders copy.
Generative Now (Lightspeed) 2024
Open creators.spotify.com →Primary source on the image model that made real-product editing mainstream.
Google DeepMind Nov 2025
Open blog.google →The launch of accurate in-image text, the feature that unlocked AI marketing graphics.
OpenAI Mar 2025
Open openai.com →Structured hands-on intro to prompt-based image editing with your own photos.
Codecademy 2025
Open codecademy.com →Concrete ecommerce transformations, pack shot to lifestyle scene, you can copy directly.
Marketing4eCommerce 2025
Open marketing4ecommerce.net →A PPC agency's prompt patterns for ad-ready product imagery.
JumpFly 2025
Open jumpfly.com →A professional logo designer shows where AI concepts help and where they stop.
Ebaq Design (Arek Dvornechuck) 2026
Open ebaqdesign.com →Prompt-level detail for marketing collateral, mockups, and A/B variants.
Learn Prompting 2025
Open learnprompting.org →The company powering millions of seller product photos explains what quality actually takes.
Tech.eu Apr 2025
Open tech.eu →The keep-the-product, generate-the-scene workflow spelled out.
Claid.ai 2026
Open claid.ai →Covers the open-model route (Flux) for founders who want control or self-hosting.
Flux AI 2025
Open flux-ai.io →A practical two-tool pipeline: Midjourney scenes plus compositing your real product in.
SCENE4 2025
Open scene4.ai →How to get exact typography out of Ideogram, the thing other models still fumble.
PixelDojo 2026
Open pixeldojo.ai →Tactical fixes, brand colors, negative prompts, style codes, for common off-brand failures.
God of Prompt 2025
Open godofprompt.ai →The same ground, over in Brand, web & content, our Starting Up track.