🎬 Generate custom icons with OpenAI GPT image & Google Drive auto-storage
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Description
Workflow Description:
Turn a simple text idea into production-ready icons in seconds. With this workflow, you input a subject (e.g., “Copy”, “Banana”, “Slack Mute”), select a style (Flat, 3D, Cartoon, etc.), and off it goes.
Here’s what happens:
- A form trigger collects your icon subject, style and optional background.
- The workflow uses an LLM to construct an optimised prompt.
- An image-generation model (OpenAI image API) renders a transparent-background, 400×400 px PNG icon.
- The icon is automatically uploaded to Google Drive, and both a download link and thumbnail are generated.
- A styled completion card displays the result and gives you a “One More Time” option.
Perfect for designers, developers, no-code creators, UI builders and even home-automation geeks (yes, you can integrate it with Home Assistant or Stream Deck!). It saves you the manual icon-hunt grind and gives consistent visual output across style variants.
🔧 Setup Requirements:
- n8n instance (self-hosted or cloud)
- OpenAI API access (image generation enabled)
- Google Drive credentials (write access to a folder)
- (Optional) Modify to integrate Slack, Teams or other file-storage destinations
✅ Highlights & Benefits:
- Fully automated prompt creation → consistent icon quality
- Transparent background PNGs size-ready for UI use
- Saves icons to Drive + gives immediate link/thumbnail
- Minimal setup, high value for creative/automation workflows
- Easily extendable (add extra sizes, style presets, share via chat/bot)
⚠️ Notes & Best-Practices:
- Check your OpenAI image quota and costs - image generation may incur usage.
- Confirm Google Drive folder permissions to avoid upload failures.
- If you wish a different resolution or format (e.g., SVG), clone the image node and adjust parameters.
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Drive, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model, n8n Form Trigger, OpenAI, n8n Form
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File