# generating-images

Turns a brief and optional reference images into a model-specific prompt and image request. Use it for illustrations, posters, portraits, and edits.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 232
- Author: SupercmoHQ
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/generating-images

## What it does

The skill reads the brief, selects a model, and builds a prompt using that model’s guide. When references are supplied, it calls `image_analysis` before sending requests to `image_generate`. Poster, portrait, and cinematic formats have separate recipe files.

A single call can request several different images. For a set meant to share a character or look, the skill repeats the appearance and wardrobe details in every request; each image is generated independently. You can name a model, and an edit that must preserve a real person’s recognizable face routes to `seedream-5`.

Commercial product photography goes to `generating-product-photos`; product ads with overlaid copy or a call to action go to `generating-image-ads`. The agent needs access to `image_generate`, and reference analysis uses `image_analysis`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-images -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/generating-images/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-images -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-images -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills generating-images
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-images -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/generating-images
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-images -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-images/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose an image model for a brief
- turn a text brief into a model-ready prompt
- edit an image using a supplied reference
- request several distinct image variations
- keep a character’s look consistent across a set

## Example prompts
- Create a festival poster with the heading “Summer Festival” and choose a model that can render the text clearly.
- Edit this image by changing the background while keeping the person’s face recognizable.
- Make a set of illustrations with the same character and color palette.

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---
name: generating-images
description: ALWAYS read this skill before generating or editing any image, or calling image_generate — text-to-image or image-to-image, simple or complex. Turns a text brief, optionally guided by reference images (a character, a style to follow, an existing photo to edit), into a still image. Analyzes intent, routes to the best model, and structures the prompt. Use whenever the user asks to generate, create, make, design, or edit an image — except commercial photography of a product being sold, which belongs to generating-product-photos.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Routes your brief to the best of 10+ SOTA image models (like Nano Banana, GPT Image), writes detailed prompts as per model specifications and generates multiple variations instantly."
---

# Image Generation

Turn a brief — text, optionally with reference image(s) — into a still image via the
`image_generate` tool. Two decisions drive quality: **which model** (always) and **which format
recipe** (only when the deliverable is a known one).

**Before you route:** if the brief is commercial **product photography** — a packshot, a product in
a styled scene, a hero or banner for a product, an on-model or try-on shot,
or restyling an existing product photo — hand off to the **`generating-product-photos`** skill, which
owns that surface. If it is a **product advertisement** — a headline, an offer or a call to action drawn
over the product, a promotional before/after or comparison — hand off to **`generating-image-ads`**. Stay here for everything else: general images, graphics and posters, portraits,
illustrations, cinematic stills, infographics, and one-off reference edits.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Route to a model

Route by what the image has to **do** — read the brief for intent.
The descriptions below are signals to weigh, not a literal router — the examples are illustrative,
not a checklist to match against. Then **read the chosen model's prompt guide before writing
anything**.

| Route when the brief is about… | Model | Prompt guide |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rendering **words** legibly, or a designed layout where elements sit in deliberate positions — for example a poster, ad, banner, thumbnail, or infographic | `gpt-image-2` | `references/prompt-gpt-image-2.md` |
| A **drawn or rendered** look rather than a photograph — for example a cartoon, anime, illustration, flat vector, or 3D render | `nano-banana-2` | `references/prompt-nano-banana.md` |
| A convincing **real person**, or a photographic frame with deliberate cinematography — for example a creator or influencer portrait, UGC, or a film-like still | `nano-banana-pro` | `references/prompt-nano-banana.md` |
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