§ 01 · The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Alex spends the first eighteen seconds doing one thing: standing in front of a wall of ChatGPT Image 2 carousels and saying he wasn't going to make this video. The reluctant-convert frame is the hook — proof of output, then a confession that the tool forced his hand. Then he hands you the deck.
What the video promised.
stated at 01:05“You're going to have, by the end of this video, a full system which is going to allow you to create carousels like this in whatever niche, whatever category you are in.”delivered at 17:00
Where the time goes.
00:00 – 00:59
01 · Intro
Reluctant-convert hook + carousel grid reveal + promise: you'll have a full system by end of video.
00:59 – 03:06
02 · Part 1: The Benchmark
Stratechery-style editorial deck walks through five shifts ChatGPT Image 2 unlocks vs Nano Banana: legible text, 8-image consistency, thinking mode (plans then renders), every aspect ratio, full magazine layouts from one prompt.
03:06 – 05:21
03 · Part 2: Skill System
Install a JSON-prompt skill in Claude (Settings -> Capabilities -> Customize -> Upload Skill). Typing 'turn this into a JSON prompt' now auto-generates dense structured prompts in the format ChatGPT Image 2 needs.
05:21 – 07:22
04 · Part 3: Why Carousels?
Four reasons carousels win: more saves, longer dwell time, 'reels reach but carousels convert', cover does 80% of the work. Standard carousel structure: hook -> setup -> reframe -> value x N -> climax -> save prompt -> CTA.
07:22 – 17:28
05 · Part 4: Generation system
Live demo of the Claude project. Drop reference image + subject -> visual teardown -> carousel concept (hook/setup/middle/CTA) -> ask 'share them individually' -> get 10 JSON prompts -> paste into Higgsfield, render with ChatGPT Image 2, low/medium for testing then high for final. Demos three carousels: Nike Jordan hat, motivational sports content, protein breakfasts.
17:28 – 18:04
06 · Outro
You are the director of AI tools — tools alone won't differentiate you, creativity will. CTA to two end-screen videos (Claude content system, Claude for YouTube) + like + subscribe.
Visual structure at a glance.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:00list
The 5 Shifts of ChatGPT Image 2
- 01 - Text in images: legible, any language
- 02 - Consistency: 8 images, same character
- 03 - Thinking mode: it plans, then renders
- 04 - Aspect ratios: one asset, every aspect ratio
- 05 - Magazine-grade: full layouts, one prompt
The editorial backbone of the video — five capability shifts that frame why this model release matters more than a Nano Banana update.
Steal forUse the numbered 'shifts' framing for any tool launch / market analysis content. Pairs with the editorial deck design language (black + accent color + big serif + sub-label like 'Shift 01 / The Big One').
03:20model
Two-Layer Claude System (Skill + Project)
- Layer 1: JSON-Prompter Skill — uploaded once, converts plain English into long structured JSON prompts
- Layer 2: Carousel Generator Project — paste-in instructions, accepts reference image + subject, outputs 10 individual slide prompts
Skills handle prompt-format conversion; Projects handle the workflow logic. Separating them means the skill is reusable across any image task and the project owns the carousel-specific steps.
Steal forAny creator workflow where prompt-format conversion + workflow-specific logic both matter (thumbnails, ad creatives, podcast cover art, etc). Joe could mirror this exactly for his $6 Stack content factory.
06:20list
Carousel Beat Structure (10 slides)
- Hook (cover does 80% of the work)
- Setup
- Reframe
- Value
- Value
- Value
- Climax / payoff
- Save prompt
- CTA
Alex's own 10-slide template — same shape as a short-form video beat sheet but optimized for swipe pacing where saves > shares.
Steal forUse as the input scaffold when prompting any AI image carousel system. Plug your subject into each beat, then generate.
06:36list
Two Carousel Principles
- One idea per slide
- The cover does 80% of the work
Stated as 'principles that matter more than structure' — these are the constraint pair that forces every other decision.
Steal forAudit any existing carousel against these two before publishing.
Lines you could clip.
00:13
“I wasn't gonna make this video, but after testing it all of yesterday, I had to. Social media just became easier.”
05:33
“Reels reach. Carousels convert.”
06:40
“The cover does 80% of the work.”
02:45
“Less a rendering tool, more a visual thought partner.”
17:34
“You can have all the tools in the world, but without your creativity, without your input, without your ideas, you will just be the same as everyone else. You are the director of AI tools.”
How they spent the runtime.
Hook length18s
Info densitymedium
Filler18%
Sponsors
- 10:15–12:50 · Higgsfield
Things they pointed at.
03:20toolClaude Skills (Settings -> Capabilities -> Customize -> Upload Skill)
03:20toolJSON Prompting
03:20toolNano Banana / Nano Banana Pro
01:00toolChatGPT Image 2 (OpenAI)
09:35toolPinterest (for reference images)
How they asked for the click.
17:36link
“Get all the free templates and frameworks in my Vault... drop a like so I know you want more videos like this. Let's create smarter.”
Layered CTA — Vault lead magnet (link in description), newsletter, Instagram, then two end-screen video recommendations (Claude content system + Claude for YouTube), then like + subscribe. Soft pitch wrapped in a 'you are the director' motivational close, which inoculates against the sponsor + vault stack.
Word for word.
HOOKopening / re-engagementCTAthe pitchmetaphorstory
00:00HOOKLook at this content. All of these were created with ChatGPT Image two in minutes. One prompt each, and I wasn't gonna make this video, but after testing it all of yesterday, I had to. Social media just became easier. Okay. So today, I'm gonna be showing you a full system on how I've been able to generate full carousels using the new chat GBT model. And for the last twenty four hours, I've been obsessively trying to figure it out because honestly, it's pretty much blown my mind. The way it's capable of using text, etcetera, as you can see here, and generate carousels which are in sync slide to slide.
00:39HOOKSo if I just scroll through, you can see slide to slide, they're all in sync. And honestly, the way it uses text is insane. So we're gonna run it through all of this, and you're going to have, by the end of this video, a full system which is going to allow you to create carousels like this in whatever niche, whatever category you are in.
01:02Okay. So what's actually changed on Charjibouti? You know, what's caused me to create this video? So I believe it's changed social media because Nano Banana was, you know, kind of the goat at that point at this point, you know, for image generation. Charjibouti has significantly improved the market, which means now that other models will need to also vastly improve, which is good for us content creators, you know, because this is about making our lives easier. So now what used to be, you know, a struggle in terms of, you know, the text having kind of that lack of consistency is no longer an issue with ChatGPT.
01:35You know, it's legible in any language, quote post, carousel headlines, ad copy thumbnail. You know, it's changing everything for us. Okay? Now one of the big things which you'll see even here, you know, through this is when I'm creating my carousels, there is that consistent theme. Okay? So just for me prompting, you'll see through the system that I've built and, you know, you're about to build, you know, how I'm building these carousels, which are all in sync. So if I scroll down to you know, you can see this one. 12,
02:02um, 34567. You know, and that's my carousel all in sync. There's literally virtually undetectable changes. And then if I go to, you know, this one here, you know, protein breakfast five under five minutes, boom, one. And it even gives me two out of seven. Then I move to the next one, you know, three out of seven, which is insane. So, you know, that's huge for us, that consistency for us content creators who are creating carousels. And the reason it it's improved so much is because now it has a kind of thinking brain behind it, a new thinking model, you know, which reasons
02:36more with the layout, with typography, you know, object placement before it renders, which means it's , which is huge and why the design is so much better.
02:47You know, before, there was limited aspect ratios. You know, if you wanted a thumbnail, if you wanted a story for Instagram, you know, diff a banner for YouTube, etcetera. Whereas now you can basically get all different aspect ratios, which again is huge. You know, full layouts, one prompt, massive change to the market. Let's jump into building this system.
03:09CTAOkay. So now it's time for us to start building our system. Now one of the things with carousels, which are the swipe posts on social media, is with image generation in the past, it's been difficult to get that consistency from post to post. And you can see here that I've been able to build entire post sequences.
03:27CTASo you can see this is, you know, post one, two, you could see right here, three, four, all in the same format. And if I show you again here, you can see the same thing. And I've been able to do that using a particular prompt style called JSON prompting,
03:42CTAand this is an important aspect of our system, and I need you to understand. So you could see here, right here, the prompt style. Now let me show you how we're going to do this. Now we're gonna jump over to Claude. So I'm using Claude. Claude is my go to. Now I'm in my vault. I'm going to give you the skill so that you can have your JSON prompt
04:04CTAin your Claude at all times. The exact same thing with ChatGBT. So I'll also add a ChatGBT version in there if you use ChatGBT. So what you want to do to install it is go to here first, go to settings and make sure that you have capabilities,
04:23CTAthat you have this turned on. The next thing you want to do is go to customize. Here is where your skills and connectors live. What I want you to do here is press plus, then press upload skill, and there you would drag the file in there and follow the steps and simply upload it. What this will do now is any time that you type, you know, turn this into a JSON prompt, you'll see later on in the system, give turn this into a JSON prompt
04:47CTAor, you know, give me a a prompt for Nano Banana, for Chajibti image. It will automatically create the prompt using this as a reference point. So it will create it in this JSON kind of way so that your prompts are always kind of these longer, very high information in exactly how kind of AI wants the prompts to be. And this is gonna make your life so so much easier, so I deserve a like and a subscribe for that. Um, but yeah. So all you'd need to do is follow those steps. The steps will be in the vault. You'll be able to do that. Let's move over to the next section.
05:24Okay. So why carousels? Why are we creating carousels? So this is a winning format on social media. Okay? And there's four reasons they work. I'm just gonna go through this super fast. So they get a lot of saves. Okay? Trust me. They get a lot of saves. A lot people usually spend more time on them than a traditional reel just because it's easier to navigate through. You know, with the reel, you have to kind of watch it. You have to pause it. You have to rewind. Whereas with a swipe, you know, it's so much easier. And you can reference it, save it, and, you know, go back and look at it for way longer. So it's got a much longer shelf life.
05:57You know, the teaching is so much easier as well. Reels reach. So reels are designed to reach people. Carousels convert. If you want me to do a video where I go deeper into kind of carousels, etcetera, I'm just briefly kind of going through this, then let me know in the comments. You know, I would love to do that. You can see 10 slides. So this is roughly how a carousel would kind of operate just so I'm giving you of context before we build this system. So you'd have a hook traditionally at the beginning to capture someone's attention. Then you have a setup, reframe, value, value, value, after the climax, save prompt, CTA. So this is kind of, you know, based on me, for example. And, obviously, you can
06:31do this for any niche. And finally, two principles that matter more than structure. You know, one idea per slide, . You know? If the foot this is why this is so important with ChatGeBT, um, with, you know, everything we've designed because the way it creates covers now and if I just scroll through some of the stuff that I was playing around with, I don't know if I'm gonna show you this or not. And don't laugh at how I look here
06:55or here. But you can see, like, the covers that I'm able to make, like, this was a singular prompt, and all I did was add my picture. Like, this is a cover worth worthy of a click. Right? So, you know, this is this makes a massive change, and that's why, you know, I had to make this video, basically. So let me go back to him.
07:15So now let's jump into building this system for carousels so that you can get better social media success.
07:26Okay. So, again, this is going to be all in my vault. Essentially, what we want to do now, we've created our skills. You understand what why carousels work, etcetera. Now we're gonna create this project, which is going to allow us to basically get our carousels in a matter of seconds. So I've already created one an hour ago. You would literally just press new project, type in, like, carousel, generator, whatever, create the project. So I'm gonna create it now quickly, and you can see here. So
07:54instructions plus and you'd paste the instructions, which I will provide in my vault. And so let's see here. Right here,
08:04you can see all of the instructions are right there. And now I can show you so yeah. That's basically it. And, obviously, you can use different models to test it around. Now I'm gonna show you how I've been kind of interacting with them. So you've seen me create a bunch of stuff here. So yep. So let's start with this one. So
08:25what you want to do is now, of course, if you give your projects more about branding, etcetera, it's going to be better. But for the purpose of this video, I'm using reference images from Pinterest, etcetera, to provide that context. But if you have, like, the right branding, you know, the right examples yourself, then you can do that for your project. So if we go here to the motive let's go to the Nike one. So for example, what I did was went over here to Pinterest
08:52and typed in what did I type in? Like, um, let's see. What did I type in? Social media social media post social media post. And you can see that there's a bunch of different I was kind of just getting inspiration, and I grabbed this one here. Now, obviously, you want to be more specific, you know, or for example, if you find something on Instagram that you like, you know, like the design of etcetera, you can grab that. So for the purpose of this video, I just grabbed something from here.
09:18And then going back to here, I put in my hat. So where is my hat? So I have this Jordan hat right here, and then I was thinking, you know, what should I make a carousel about? Let me do a Jordan hat. So I took a picture of Jordan hat, and I want to create a carousel for my night Jordan hat in a similar visual style to the attached reference. So these are my two visual points.
09:39The first thing this project will do is a visual teardown of your reference. So you can see right here, portrait frames, etcetera, etcetera, carousel concept. It will start then designing this carousel concept. So you can see hook, the only cap you need, deep black background, blah blah blah, context, heritage, middle beat, etcetera, CTA. And then it will say, ready for step two, say run the skill to turn these slides into adjacent prompts, run the skill and turn these into etcetera. Now what you want to do is say individually. So it did it all in one go for me. Can you share them with me individually?
10:10CTAAnd you will start getting all of these prompts like this. And now you have a carousel system, and you can see right here. If I copy this, go to here. So I'm using Higgs Field, which is the sponsor of today's video, and they honestly are where I do all my image generators and generations. And the reason why is because to have everything in one flow is so so useful. For For example, if there was an issue with ChatGPT, I could just press this right here and switch to Nanobanana two, Nanobanana Pro. You know, and as soon as ChatGPT image two came out, boom. It was already here, and I could play around with it. Now something to pay attention to on ChatGPT image two
10:52CTAis you have different variations. I'm actually just going to run this. So we got low, medium, and high. So obviously, the higher the model you use, etcetera, the more credits and stuff you're going to use. What I recommend doing is, you know, if you want to start testing and stuff, play around with low and medium so you can test and get kind of a visual reference, and then you can even go back to Claude. And to, you know, in terms of resolution, go one k or two k. You don't need to go to four k. For the purpose of this video, you know, I'm recording a YouTube video, which is seen by a few people, so I try to export in, you know, higher settings. But, essentially, then you have all the aspect ratios. So if you're doing a thumbnail, you can do, you know, 21 or 16, this one. Then you have the different for story. It'll be nine by 16. So you'd have it all here.
11:37CTAThis batch size means how many you want to generate at a time. So you can see I always do four just, you know, because I want to and want to see as many as possible. But if you were limited on choice, you know, you could do two, one at a time to keep it really con concise. But, honestly, once like, there's not really much difference between what I'm generating. You know, honestly, like, look at this one. Once I have the right system built, you know, which we've already started building, you could literally bring this down to one, you know, have this on two k, have this on low or medium, and your, you know, generations would cost way less. So there are ways to go around this. And, yeah, I just love the feel of using Higgs field like this. It's just so much easier. You know, I just press an image, for example.
12:18CTAI could see my prompt. I could see the model I used. I could see kind of the settings. I could press download. I can, you know, press reference. You know, I can press upscale enhancer. You know, there's just so many different things I can do with this all in one place, and it just makes my life so much easier. So let's just generate this right now. So three by four image two.
12:37CTAAnd honestly, it's that simple. And what you would do is so I'm going back to him, is you would just copy, paste, generate. Go back, copy, paste, generate, and then you would have your full carousel. Now, of course, there are going to be ways to automate this, you know, to make this even smoother. Although, I do think this is pretty smooth because honestly, this once you have it built, it takes a matter of seconds. If you want me to make a video which goes more into automations,
13:03you know, the possibilities of that, please let me know in the comments. Now I did create some other chats as you can see right here. So to test things out properly, you can see I was playing around with some motivational content. So if I go here and type in
13:23motivational sports content, you've seen this all around social media. You know, these kind of like this, like that. And these are not easy to make, you know, they take some time. And I really wanted to experiment with using Chajubiti for this, and it turns out it did it did a really good job. Like, if I look at this one right here, you know, the text looks clean. And to be honest, I didn't give it much context. So if I go to motivational,
13:48you know, I put these three reference images here. I want to make a carousel with a design inspired from the touch, which is motivational carousel to help people. Like, I could be way more specific. I could say a particular font. I could yeah. As I said, I could give it more brand references. And then if I did want to include, you know, famous people, etcetera, similar to how these guys do it, then obviously, I'd have to add the reference images because it won't just pluck them out of thin air. But if you want to be more, you know, not have a particular kind of famous person, you know, then it can easily generate that for you. And it was able to do that, you know, as you can see kind of here, you know, with these images, and it looks ultra realistic.
14:24So but, you know, this honestly has really impressed me. You know, there are a few glitches like this one, you know, Machamp hands. Is it Machamp? Yes. It was Machamp. And here, yeah, we'll just that one really. But you can see like how good the text comes out. Like, there's tiny bits of overlap here, etcetera. And how, like, honestly, how clean does that look? So and this is just me testing for a few hours. Like, if I was to build a whole thing about this,
14:54it would be
14:57crazy. Like, you know, production value on social media is super important. You know, in this age of AI where anything is basically possible, when your text when your carousels are just, you know, gets up in black and, you know, it's just so simple, and you're starting from scratch, it's gonna be hard to grow. So this allows you to be creative, and I want you to be creative. Okay?
15:20This was one I'd already kind of created before, and you can see this one here. So this one I actually got from an Instagram post and just referenced it. I wanted to test its kind of capabilities with text. Grow with Alex, one out of seven protein breakfast, and it just look it just came out so clean in terms of composition.
15:40Everything, like the text,
15:45cottage cheese, peach bowl, etcetera. You know, if you have a website, if you have a book, if you have a YouTube video, if you have anything you want to add information to, it can digest that and turn it into a carousel for you.
16:05I mean, you know, what what more can you want, really? So it's done an incredible job of the overnight oats jar maker head fiber rich 25 g protein. You know? And with this system that we've built here, you know, if you go and see you know, love this template. Okay. So this one, I actually asked for it to give me some ideas. So you can see okay. Closest to the reference, five minute lunches, high protein snacks under 200 cals, one pan dinners,
16:29make ahead meal preps, you know, seasonal cocktails, quick workouts by body part. And then I picked okay. And then it actually asked me which direction do you want to run with? One pan dinners. Boom. And it just started to build it for me. So slide one, you know, this is all of that, etcetera, etcetera. These are the slides. And then I would just simply run this,
16:49and I get the prompts, paste them here, and I have my carousel without needing to, you know, go on without needing to go on to, you know, Canva, paying a designer, anything like that. Right now, it's taken a bit longer as it's still very early in terms of it's just been released, and I'm probably doing it on a high setting, but it makes life so so much easier. And I think, you know, you can see some of the stuff I've been practicing here, you know, even
17:17CTANegrano. You know, look at how clean and that kind of glass, etcetera, transparency here. You know, it's come out amazingly, and a lot of the time before in image generators, it really struggled with that. Remember, can have all the tools in the world, but without your creativity,
17:32CTAwithout your input, without your ideas, you will just be the same as everyone else. So remember, . If you want to keep learning, these two videos right here could be for you. This one goes through my full content system using Claude,
17:49CTAand this one right here is using Claude for YouTube. So if you ever thought about starting YouTube, recommend watching this video right here. My name is Alex. Please drop a like so that I know you want more videos like this. Let's create smarter.
§ · For Joe
Steal the deck, not the tool.
Editorial deck as a content moat
The cheat code isn't ChatGPT Image 2 — it's that Alex built a magazine-grade editorial deck and used it as the spine of an 18-minute tutorial.
- Build one reusable editorial slide template — black background, big serif headline, accent-color sub-deck card, 'Shift 01 / The Big One' pagination strip. Reuse it across every tool review.
- Frame any tool launch as N numbered shifts, not features. 'Five shifts ChatGPT Image 2 unlocks' lands harder than 'Five new features.'
- Open with proof-of-output before a single word of teaching. Show the carousel grid, then say 'I wasn't going to make this video.'
- Stack a free skill + a free project as the lead magnet. The skill is reusable across all image work; the project is the workflow specific to this video. Two artifacts in the Vault = two reasons to grab it.
- Layer the CTA: lead magnet -> sponsor -> newsletter -> end-screen videos -> like/subscribe. Wrap it in a creative-empowerment close so the stack doesn't feel like shilling.
- Bake one bumper-sticker line per video. 'Reels reach. Carousels convert.' is the line that gets clipped and screenshotted — design for it.
§ · For You
What this could mean for you.
If you want to actually try carousels this week
You can make a respectable 10-slide carousel today, by yourself, in under an hour — without paying a designer or learning Canva.
- Pick one piece of content you already have — a blog post, a recipe, a video — and ask Claude or ChatGPT to break it into 10 swipe-sized ideas.
- Find one reference image you like on Pinterest or Instagram. That single reference will pull your whole carousel into a consistent look.
- Ask the model to write each slide as a 'JSON prompt' with explicit fields for layout, typography, headline, body, and colors — it works dramatically better than 'make me a slide that says X.'
- Paste each prompt one at a time into an image tool that has ChatGPT Image 2 (OpenAI's site, or an aggregator like Higgsfield). Start on the cheap/low setting until you like the look, then re-run on high.
- Spend 80% of your effort on slide 1 (the cover). The other nine slides only exist if the cover earns the swipe.
- Save 'the cover does 80% of the work' as your one rule, and 'reels reach but carousels convert' as the reason you keep posting them even when the view count looks small.
