Hi everyone!

I’m currently building an automation for an AI news page using **n8n** and **Midjourney/DALL-E**, but I’m hitting a wall with the visual quality.

I’ve managed to automate the text-to-image process, but my results still look like "classic AI art"—a bit plastic and obviously fake. However, I’ve seen pages like *\**\*\*\*\*instagram page\*\*\* osting images that look like real, candid photography. For example, they have shots of Sam Altman playing Nintendo in a 90s room or tech CEOs in very specific, realistic settings.

My questions for the experts here:

1. **Is this a single prompt or a pipeline?** Are they generating the whole scene at once, or is it a multi-step process (e.g., generating a generic scene and then using a **Face Swap API** like InsightFace/Replicate)?
2. **Dynamic Layouts:** How do they handle the overlays (circles, logos, text) so perfectly? Are they using something like **Bannerbear** or **Placid** integrated into the workflow, or is there a way to do this dynamically with code in n8n?
3. **Realism:** What models or "vibe" settings are they using to get that grainy, 35mm film, non-AI look?

If anyone has a similar stack or knows the "secret sauce" for this high-end automated look, I’d love to learn more.

Thanks!



How do pages automate such "real-looking" backgrounds?