Create Social Carousel Images from Google Sheets in n8n

Create a 4-card social carousel for each new Google Sheets row—automatically in n8n

With this n8n workflow, every time you add a row to your Google Sheet, the workflow generates four consistent social carousel images (same character across all cards) using the ImageStep preset, then writes the published image URLs back to the same row.

What this workflow does

• Triggers on new rows via a Google Sheets trigger. It reads headline and subline.
• Builds the scene per row using a Code node. The scene includes {{subject.hero}} as a placeholder for the character text.
• Applies a saved ImageStep preset in the ImageStep node using the carousel-brand preset with Count = 4. This ensures the fortieth (and every) row describes the character exactly the way the preset character was saved the first time.
• Collects results by capturing the four published image URLs along with the job id and status.
• Writes back to Google Sheets using a Google Sheets node, matching values to the row via row_number, filling url1–url4, plus jobId and status.

Use cases

• Generate carousel creatives for SaaS marketing campaigns from a content spreadsheet.
• Batch-produce social assets for multiple product launches while keeping character branding consistent.
• Ops-friendly publishing: store outputs in Google Sheets so teams can review and reuse URLs.

Technical details

• n8n nodes: Google Sheets Trigger, Code (scene building + URL collection), n8n-nodes-imagestepimage step, and Google Sheets (write-back).
• ImageStep setup: install n8n-nodes-imagestep, create an ImageStep credential with an API key, and save the carousel-brand preset once (Count 4).
• Expected sheet columns: headline, subline, url1–url4, jobId, status.