Using an AI image generator for blog and article images
Header images, in-article illustrations and social cards that are specific to your piece.
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Blog images have a low bar and a hard constraint: they must be relevant and they must not look like the same stock photo everyone else used. A generator clears the second one automatically, and the first one is a prompt-writing habit rather than a tool feature.
Illustrate the mood, not the title
The most common mistake is illustrating the headline literally — a handshake for an article about hiring, a lightbulb for one about ideas. Those images say nothing and readers scroll past them. Describe the scene the article feels like instead: an empty meeting room at dawn, a desk with two cold coffees, a window with rain on it.
| Article type | Image that works |
|---|---|
| How-to or tutorial | The tools or the workspace, plainly lit |
| Opinion or essay | An atmospheric scene, one subject, muted palette |
| Industry news | Abstract or textural, low detail |
| Case study | The setting the story takes place in |
Sizes and consistency
Generate a 16:9 header and, if the post gets shared, a 1:1 social card — separately, not by cropping one into the other. Pick one style for the whole publication and paste a fixed palette sentence into every prompt; that is what makes a set of unrelated header images read as one blog.
Keep the header simple. A busy image with a title laid over it is unreadable at thumbnail size, and the thumbnail is where most readers meet it.
The rule that keeps you out of trouble
Never generate something that could be mistaken for documentary evidence — a real person, a real event, a real place presented as a photograph. For those, use a real photo or a licensed one. Everything conceptual is fair game, and the prompt patterns are in the prompt guide with worked examples on Explore.