I need to share my pain.... · AI Pro Writers Studio

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I need to share my pain....

Part of what I want to do with this Skool is to share process's with each other, learn new one's iterate and create better. We all work differently and some methods may help others come up with better processes which they can share with the class and we all get better. I am not the smartest in the room (that's usually my lovely wife) but I am willing to share and learn. And I do have a lot of experience in many things.

So I'm writing...and creating a Skool...and trying to promote the system I use to others...starting a publishing company...updating the Skills...creating the copy... creating the images...resizing the images...whoops that won't fit...resize them again...post to skool...post to gumroad...post to website. Rinse and repeat...

My biggest hang-up right now is that after creating a slew of graphics I'll be sharing (with the help of the Marketing Team Skill) they are the wrong size. I intentionally made them square and too large to be multi functional 2048x2048. Skool Banners are 1460x752. Cool. Whip out my handu Affinity App and do a batch resize on everything to 752x752 thinking I can just upload them and they'll sit squarely (pun intended) in the middle.

Nope! Skool conveniently resizes to the width and you can only zoom UP!. I'm sure there is a way to create a new macro to increase just the canvas size but i do not want to take the time today to figure this out when I can open, resize, and upload just the ones I need faster, but then I have to write the copy.

So the general process I used for this:

Manus.ai will also use claude skills and can call claude to write with directly. It works more like Claude Code than a Chat system. One of the very cool things it does (and I only *just* found out Google's antigravity app does much te same) when I run the Merch or Marketing Teams skills in manus, instead of just giving the prompts for the graphics they create, Manus opens a canvas window and uses nano-banana to start creating them one by one. You can then click on one of them so its icon appears in the chat window and make changes to that particular image or choose multiple images if you need the same changes.

So I call the Marketing Team Skill in Manus. I add all of the skill files and tell it I need a marketing plan and graphics for this set of skills. It creates a whole marketing plan for social media postings and the graphics to post there. I use these creations as ideas for where i go next.

In this case It created a sales graphic for each skill and individual portraits of the persona members, but it did not keep them consistent. So I selected a couple of them I like and asked Manus to create canonical reference images of the persona characters used by the writing room skill and it created persona graphics like the ones below. I kept asking it for the reference images of the rest of the team until i had them all.

I then selected the Writers Room Graphic and asked it to replace the characters in the image with the reference images for the characters we just created and it made the changes. I had it add the price badge and then selected the first correct image (the writers room) and selected the second skill image and asked "Update the second image to be the same style as the first and replace the characters in the image with the canonical reference images of the persona's we created for this skill package" and it did this. Delete the old one to keep it from being confused and keep the good one.

Then the resizing issues I spoke of above started happening. I'll be adding the entire library of skills across the next day or so in the Classroom area. They are being sold individually, as packages and as the whole skillset. All support is FREE here on this Skool and updates will be free for all purchasers or folks at the Pro and VIP level for what will be available there.

My goal is to help folks get their stories out. Even if you just choose to lurk in the skool, feel free to ask questions, get answers and make suggestions as myself and the other members here can answer them.

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