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Guides on generating images and video inside your AI agent.
- Creative testing
Generate many ad variants cheaply and let the data pick the winner
How performance marketers can turn one product into a dozen testable creatives for the price of a few credits each.
- Storyboard to video
Storyboard your video as images first, then animate the frames
Lock every shot as a still before you spend a credit on motion. The frames become your board, and each one becomes a clip.
- Seasonal marketing
Make seasonal and holiday campaign visuals in minutes
A practical way for marketers and store owners to produce holiday images and short clips from the tools they already use.
- MCP architecture
Remote hosted MCP servers are the 2026 default
What changes when image and video generation stops running on your own machine.
- Listing photography
AI real estate listing photos, made by an agent
Connect Figgshield to the assistant you already use and turn raw property shots into listing-ready images and short walkthrough clips.
- Print on Demand
Making print-on-demand artwork with AI
How to generate print-ready designs, keep the resolution correct, and turn each one into a listing video without hiring a designer.
- Integration choices
MCP or a REST API: how to call image and video generation
The tradeoffs when you wire generation into an agent versus into your own backend code.
- Choosing a video tier
Kling 3 or Kling 3 Turbo: how to choose
One tier is built for finish, the other for speed, and they cost the same per clip. Here is how to decide without overthinking it.
- For creators and small brands
Make Instagram carousels with AI, one matching set at a time
How to generate a whole swipeable set from your AI agent, keep every slide on brand, and pay only for what you render.
- Pitch deck visuals
Make pitch deck visuals without leaving your agent
Title slides, section dividers, and concept art from the same chat where you write the deck.
- For newsletter writers
Generating header and section images for email newsletters
How to make the banner at the top and the illustrations between sections without opening a design tool.
- For Zed
Generate images and video in Zed with MCP
Figgshield is a remote MCP server. Add it once and Zed's Agent Panel can make a still or a short clip while you stay in the editor, then drop the file into your repo.
- VS Code guide
Generate images and video in VS Code with an MCP server
Point Copilot, Continue, or Cline at one MCP server and your chat panel can return a PNG or an MP4 next to your code.
- Getting started
Go from an idea to a finished image or clip without leaving the chat
You describe what you want, your agent makes it, and you refine it in the same thread. No second tab, no copy and paste.
- Food photography
Menu and food photography with an AI agent
You do not need a studio day or a stylist on call to get plates worth ordering, just one good reference and the right words.
- Etsy
Etsy listing photos and lifestyle shots, made by your AI agent
How makers turn a single photo of the real item into a full set of styled Etsy listing images.
- Resolution and cost
1K, 2K or 4K in Nano Banana 2, and what each one costs
The credit math is simpler than it looks, and one quirk in it should change how you choose.
- Consistency
Keeping one character consistent across a set of images
Describing a face ten times gives you ten faces. Anchoring to one start image gives you the same one, ten times.
- For bloggers and content teams
Make your own blog illustrations with AI
Skip the stock library and generate original images that actually match what you wrote, without leaving your editor.
- For YouTubers
Make YouTube thumbnails with AI image generation
How to generate click-ready 16:9 thumbnails from your AI agent, put your own face in the frame, and keep the cost predictable.
- MCP basics
What is an MCP image server, and why use one?
A plain explanation for developers who are new to the Model Context Protocol.
- For social teams and small brands
Produce a week of social content from your agent
Your AI agent can make the images and clips your calendar needs, without a separate design app in the loop.
- Headshots and avatars
Make a headshot or avatar from a photo you already have
Send one reference photo, describe the look you want, and get a clean profile image back. No studio, no shoot.
- Performance creative
Make short-form video ads with AI, without leaving your agent
A short guide for marketers and founders who need ten ad variations by Friday, not one hero film by next quarter.
- Product photography
Writing prompts that produce good product shots
The difference between a muddy render and a shot you would put on a product page is almost always the words you gave the model.
- For web developers
Generating Open Graph images with an AI agent
How to produce the social preview card for every page without opening a design tool.
- Image generation
How to generate images with Nano Banana 2 in Figgshield
A practical walk through making images with Google's Nano Banana 2 from inside the agent you already use.
- For designers
An MCP image and video connector, explained for designers
How to generate stills and short clips from inside the AI assistant you already use, without opening another tool.
- Video in your agent
Make video with Kling 3 without leaving your AI agent
Ask Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT for a clip and get one back in the same chat window you already work in.
- Claude Code guide
Generating images from the terminal in Claude Code
Connect one MCP server and Claude Code can hand you a PNG the same way it hands you a diff.
- Image to video
Turn a still image into a short video with your AI agent
One connector, one credit balance, and a clip that started life as a single frame.
- Credits
How Figgshield credits work across images and video
One balance covers every image and every clip, and here is exactly what you spend and why.
- For Windsurf
Generate images and video in Windsurf
Figgshield is a remote MCP server, so once you add it Cascade can make a hero image or a short clip while you are still in the editor and drop the file straight into your repo.
- E-commerce
Clean product listing images, generated by your AI agent
How online store owners and dropshippers turn rough supplier photos into listing images that actually convert.
- Pricing
At-cost AI generation: what you actually pay
A plain look at how at-cost credit pricing works for AI images and video, and how to spot the markup other tools hide.
- Image to video
Turn one photo into a short AI video
You do not need a shoot or a timeline. One still, a motion prompt, and a video model are enough to get a five-second clip.
- For ChatGPT
Add image and video generation to ChatGPT
Add Figgshield to ChatGPT through Developer Mode connectors.
- For Claude
Make images and video without leaving Claude
Add Figgshield to Claude and make images and video mid-conversation.
- For Cursor
Generate the asset without leaving the editor
Generate images and video inside Cursor while you build.
- Product photography
Product photos without a studio
Turn one plain photo into clean listing images from your agent.