AI image generation

AI image generator built forvideo scenes

Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 2.5, one prompt box, up to 4K. Generate the still your script needs — then keep the same face across every scene with reference images.

A prompt generating a set of cinematic scene stills inside Shorz

How to use the ai image generator in three steps

A generic image tool gives you a pretty picture. A video needs forty of them that look like the same world, with the same person in them. Shorz generates stills for scenes, B-roll, avatars and thumbnails inside the app that assembles them — and takes reference photos so scene 12 still looks like scene 1.

Writing an image prompt in the Shorz generation panel
1

Write the prompt

Describe the frame the way you'd brief a photographer: subject, setting, lens, light. Shorz can also write scene prompts for you straight from your script if you're building a Text-to-Video project.

Typed or script-driven

A face reference photo keeping the same character across several generated scenes
2

Add a reference for consistency

Feed in up to three reference images — a face, a product, a style plate — and the model keeps that identity instead of reinventing it. This is how a character survives a 40-scene video.

Same face, every scene

Choosing image model, quality and number of variations in Shorz
3

Pick a model, size and variations

Nano Banana 2 for 1K–4K stills, Nano Banana 2 Lite when you want fast and cheap, GPT Image 2.5 when the image has to carry legible text. Generate up to six variations and keep the one that works.

Up to 4K · 1–6 variations

Find it in the app under Your Library → Images · Text-to-Video scenes · Avatar creator.

Why AI Image Generator in Shorz

A generated thumbnail image with crisp, legible headline text

Text that isn't gibberish

GPT Image 2.5 renders type reliably, which matters the moment an image has to carry a headline — thumbnails, ad frames, quote cards. Nano Banana 2 takes over when you want maximum resolution and photographic detail.

Two models, two jobs

A generated still being used as an avatar base inside the Shorz editor

Images that become the video

Every still you generate is one click from becoming a scene, a B-roll insert, an avatar base, or a thumbnail. Animate it with image-to-video, put narration under it, add subtitles on top — all without leaving the app.

Feeds every panel

Who uses it, and for what

Story scenes: One still per sentence, all in the same visual world.

Story scenes

One still per sentence, all in the same visual world.

Avatar bases: Generate the presenter, then make them talk.

Avatar bases

Generate the presenter, then make them talk.

Thumbnails: Click-worthy 16:9 and 9:16 covers with real text.

Thumbnails

Click-worthy 16:9 and 9:16 covers with real text.

B-roll stills: Fill the gap when stock footage has nothing.

B-roll stills

Fill the gap when stock footage has nothing.

Shorz speaks MCP

Shorz isn't a locked web app. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini and your assistant can drive it directly — one message instead of a panel full of clicks. You review before anything is published.

See how MCP automation works
An AI assistant asks Shorz: Generate 12 cinematic 9:16 stills for my script, keeping the same host in every one, and add them as scenes.

You say

“Generate 12 cinematic 9:16 stills for my script, keeping the same host in every one, and add them as scenes.”

Shorz does

  • 1Read the script scene by scene
  • 2Generate a still per scene with a face reference
  • 3Save them to the project library
  • 4Assign each still to its scene

Every tool ships with the same promises

They're not separate products with separate bills. One app, one credit balance, one export that belongs to you.

  • No subscription — prepaid credits that never expire
  • No watermark on anything you export, ever
  • Full commercial rights on what you create
  • A desktop app for Windows and Mac — your files stay on your machine
  • Auto Edit and Clipping: 4 free videos a week, no card
  • Drivable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini over MCP

AI Image Generator questions

Nano Banana 2 (1K, 2K or 4K), Nano Banana 2 Lite — the fast, cheap tier, 1K only — and GPT Image 2.5 at low, medium or high quality.

Yes. Pass up to three reference images — a face photo works best — and the model keeps that identity in every generation. It's the same mechanism the Avatar creator uses to build a presenter who looks like a specific person.

16:9 for YouTube and landscape, 1:1 for square feeds, 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts — matching the native project ratios, so a generated still fills the frame with no letterboxing.

Roughly 8 credits per image (1 credit = €0.01), so a few cents. That's around a tenth of what a second of AI video costs, which is why image-driven B-roll is the practical choice for long videos.

Yes. Shorz can apply a localized AI edit to an existing image — restyle it, change the lighting, add a highlight or an arrow — and it returns a new file rather than overwriting the original.

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