Images, Diagrams, Screenshots & Videos

A RankTurn article is more than text. When you run Content Generation, you can have the AI produce a cover thumbnail, place illustrative images and explanatory diagrams throughout the body, capture screenshots of relevant products and websites, embed YouTube videos, and weave in internal links. Each media type has its own on/off switch when you generate an article, so you decide exactly what an article gets.

Most image choices (style, thumbnail layout, stock vs. AI) are saved as defaults in Image Styles & Custom Styles and Generation Settings. When you generate an article you can override the two things that change most often — the style and the number of images — just for that one article.

A note on text in images: by default RankTurn creates purely visual images with no text, letters, or labels. The exceptions are diagrams (which need their labels) and the inline-text thumbnail mode (which puts your title into the image on purpose).

Thumbnails

The thumbnail is the article's cover image. RankTurn builds it from two independent choices: where the background comes from, and how the title text is applied on top.

Background sources:

Title text — two modes:

• Overlay — RankTurn creates a background with no text, then places your title on top. You get full control over font, color, size, position, shadow, and stroke (configured in your thumbnail settings). This is the most reliable way to get crisp, legible Japanese or English text.
• Inline — The AI draws the title inside the image itself. This can look more organic, but how cleanly the text comes out can vary. (New accounts start with inline; existing accounts start with overlay.)

AI Frame mode (background source AI Frame) is a hybrid: instead of a full-bleed background, the AI fills a specific zone with decorative artwork while keeping the rest of the canvas clean for your title. You pick from 10 layout patterns — for example Center Open, Left Panel, Right Panel, Top Band, Bottom Band, Left/Right Accent, Frame Border, Diagonal Split, and Scattered Corners — and the title is overlaid into the open area.

When you generate an article, the Thumbnail switch turns the cover on or off, and a compact style picker lets you choose the image style for that article (including any custom style). If you pick Custom in the style picker, a text box appears where you can type a one-off style description (up to 500 characters). The full background-source, layout, font, and color controls are set as defaults in Image Styles & Custom Styles.

Inline Images

Inline images are illustrations the AI places at relevant points within the article body. The AI proposes a subject for each one based on the surrounding section, then renders it in your chosen style.

When you generate an article, the Inline images switch reveals a style picker and a count selector on the same row. You can choose 1–5 images. The default count and style come from your settings; see the recommended number for each plan under Plan Limits.

Inline images come in two forms, depending on the style you choose:

• AI-generated — AI creates an original illustration in the selected style. This is the default for the built-in styles and custom styles.
• Stock photo (Pexels) — when the source is set to stock, a real photo from Pexels is matched to the topic. Pexels photos can show photographer attribution — turn it on in your Pexels image settings (it's off by default).

As with thumbnails, choosing Custom in the style picker opens a 500-character box where you can describe a one-off style. If your account can't use reference-image ("stabilized") custom styles, those styles are shown but greyed out in the picker.

Diagrams

Diagrams are AI-generated explanatory visuals — not photos — that turn a concept into a clear graphic. RankTurn supports several diagram types:

The AI decides which type fits each suggested diagram. When you generate an article, the Diagrams switch expands a small panel with a Max diagrams selector (1–5) and a Match inline image style toggle. When matching is on, diagrams reuse your inline-image style for a consistent look; turn it off to choose a separate style for diagrams (with the same Custom option). Diagrams always appear on a white background with clear, legible labels in the article's language, no matter which style you choose. Unlike other images, diagrams are supposed to contain text (their titles and element labels).

Screenshots

Screenshots are real captures of product or website pages, useful for reviews, comparisons, and how-to articles. The AI suggests which pages to capture based on the article, and RankTurn visits each page and grabs the part you'd see on screen (not the whole scrolled page).

When you generate an article, the Screenshots switch reveals a Max screenshots selector with options 5, 10, 15, 20. Each screenshot is placed where the AI chose in the body, with alt text and a caption naming the source.

RankTurn keeps screenshots clean and skips anything that won't capture well:

• Only public web pages are captured; private or internal addresses are blocked.
• Pages that show a "prove you're human" or CAPTCHA check (such as Cloudflare's "Just a moment") are skipped.
• Cookie-consent banners and language pop-ups are hidden before the capture.
• Any page that errors or takes too long is simply skipped — the rest of the article still generates.

YouTube Videos

RankTurn can find and embed relevant YouTube videos so an article includes a moving demonstration or explainer. The AI searches for videos that match the topic and inserts the best matches at sensible points in the body.

When you generate an article, the YouTube videos switch reveals:

• Max videos — how many to embed (1–5).
• Prefer official channels — bias the search toward verified/official channels rather than random uploads.
• Search all languages — by default the search favors the article's language; enable this to also surface high-quality videos in other languages (useful when the best explainer exists only in English or another language).

Internal Links

Internal links connect the new article to other pages on your own site, which helps both readers and SEO. RankTurn gathers candidate pages from your site (via its sitemap and, where connected, Google Search Console) and only links to pages it has actually confirmed exist — it never invents a destination.

When you generate an article, the Internal links switch reveals a Max links selector with options 1–6. Links are placed on relevant words within the body. Only pages on the same site are eligible, so other sites and external pages are never used as internal links.

Image Styles & Models

RankTurn ships 32 built-in image styles organized into two groups:

• Scene styles (people and concrete scenes) — for example Photorealistic, Pop Illustration, Flat Design, Cel Anime, Watercolor, Oil Painting, Sumi-e, Hand Drawn, City Pop, Vintage Retro, Claymation, 3D Render, Risograph, Line Illustration, Comic Pop, and Pixel Art.
• Abstract styles (no people, conceptual visuals) — for example Minimalist, Flat Abstract, Duotone, Brutalism, Line Art, Paper Cut, Glassmorphism, Gradient Mesh, Neon Glow, Isometric, Voxel, Wireframe, Art Deco, Memphis, Constructivism, and Vaporwave.

Beyond the presets you can define custom styles — your own saved styles, including character/mascot styles and reference-image (stabilized) styles that keep a consistent look across images. Custom styles count against a per-plan token allowance. There's also a quick one-off Custom option in any style picker for a style you only need once.

Stock photos come from Pexels. All of this — built-in styles, custom styles, and the thumbnail layout and font controls — is managed in Image Styles & Custom Styles; broader AI behavior lives in Generation Settings.

Plan Limits

The number of images and diagrams an article can include depends on your plan:

The Text plan generates text-only articles — no AI images or diagrams. Standard and Pro unlock visuals. The inline-image numbers above are the recommended amount per article for each plan; you can still choose up to 5 inline images on any paid plan. Diagrams work a little differently: your plan's per-article diagram limit is applied when the article is generated, so if you pick more diagrams than your plan allows, it's simply trimmed to the limit (2 on Standard, 3 on Pro).

Screenshots, YouTube videos, and internal links don't have separate per-plan limits — their counts are set only by the selectors when you generate an article.

For full plan details and monthly quotas, see Plan Details and Usage Quotas.