# How to make an event poster in 2 minutes

Published: 2026-07-10T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/social-media-image-generation

I'm organising a last-minute event. I discussed it with some friends on Messenger:

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/social-media-image-generation.jpeg)

I screengrab that discussion into ChatGPT. The one-shot:

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/social-media-image-generation-chatgpt.jpeg)

First time I've tried image generation in a while—nice. And an "oh wow" moment: **it took the photo of the building entrance from my screenshot and used it in the poster.** It apparently understood from my message that the entrance is not obvious and needs to be shown prominently.

The one-shot is not quite usable: the "Confirmed" banner makes no sense—a weird judgement call there. Also, this isn't a steamy club night... let's give the lady a longer dress. I request the edits:

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/social-media-image-generation-chatgpt-2.jpeg)

And Bob's your uncle:

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/social-media-image-generation-chatgpt-3.jpeg)

Sure, it's slop. I should remove those horrible icons. But I'm out of time—this works. 💃

**Update:** for the following event, [I tried making a non-slop poster](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/lazy-prompting-a-non-slop-event-poster). It took ages.