GoonCreating Passive Income with AI-Powered Automation
Making money online with minimal effort is a dream for many, and with the right automation, it's achievable. In this article, we'll explore how to build an AI-powered automation that generates passive income by automatically adding metadata to images and uploading them to Adobe Stock.
Introduction to the Automation
The automation discussed in this article has already generated $2,700 in passive income and continues to do so with minimal effort. By uploading images to Adobe Stock and using this automation, you can earn money without doing any extra work. Generating images is easier than ever with tools like Mid Journey, Leonardo, and Dolly from Open AI, which allow you to create stunning visuals in seconds.
Introduction to the automation that generates passive income
However, there's a major challenge: creating accurate titles, tags, and keywords for these images. Without proper metadata, your images won't be discovered and won't sell. That's where this automation comes in – it automatically generates metadata, titles, descriptions, and keywords for the images you create.
How the Automation Works
The first step in this automation is to create a dedicated folder where you'll upload all the images that need metadata. You'll also need to create a table in Google Sheets with specific columns: file name, title, keywords, category, releases. This CSV format is required by Adobe Stock, and you can find more details on their official documentation.
Understanding the importance of metadata for image discovery
The automation starts with a manual trigger in n8n, allowing you to start the workflow manually by clicking the red test workflow button. Next, you'll add a Google Drive search module to find the images, connecting to your Google Drive account and selecting the upload folder you created earlier.
Configuring the Automation
You'll need to configure the Google Drive search module to search for files in the upload folder, and then apply a folder filter to ensure metadata is created for all images in the folder. The next node in the automation is to download images from Google Drive, and you'll need to configure this node to connect to your Google Drive account and download the images.
Configuring the Google Drive search module
Analyzing Images with Open AI
The next step is to analyze the images using Open AI. This is one of the most important steps, as it generates metadata for the images. You'll need to connect to your Open AI account, select the image analysis operation, and choose a model (recommended: gp4 or GPT 40 mini for best results).
Analyzing images with Open AI to generate metadata
Saving Metadata to Google Sheets
After analyzing the images, you'll need to save the extracted metadata to Google Sheets. You'll add a Google Sheets module to the automation, connecting to your Google Sheets account and selecting the sheet where you want to save the metadata.
Saving metadata to Google Sheets for easy access
Uploading Images to Adobe Stock
With the metadata saved to Google Sheets, you can now upload the images to Adobe Stock. You'll go to your Adobe Stock contributor account, click on the upload button, and drag and drop your images into the upload window.
Uploading images to Adobe Stock for sale
Applying Metadata to Images
After uploading the images, you'll notice that none of them have proper metadata. This is where the automation comes into play. You'll go to Google Sheets, download the metadata file in CSV format, and then upload it to Adobe Stock.
Applying metadata to images using the automation
Transforming Keywords into a Comma-Separated String
To apply the metadata to the images, you'll need to transform the keywords array into a comma-separated string. You'll add a code node to the automation, set the language to JavaScript, and copy and paste the provided JavaScript code.
Transforming keywords into a comma-separated string
Conclusion
The automation discussed in this article is a powerful tool for generating passive income. By automatically adding metadata to images and uploading them to Adobe Stock, you can earn money without doing any extra work. With this automation, you can process hundreds or even thousands of images per day, making it easy to scale your stock photography business.
The automation in action, generating passive income
Scaling your stock photography business with automation
By following the steps outlined in this article, you can create your own automation and start generating passive income. Remember to subscribe to the channel and like the video if you found this automation useful. You can also join the Automation Tribe Skool community to download this automation and many others designed to make your life easier.