Claude Cowork Can Finally Generate Images and Videos (NEW)

You can now generate images and videos directly inside of Claude Co-work. And as a Co-work Power user, this is something I'm beyond stoked for. I generated these images and videos directly inside of Claude. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to do the exact same thing. I'm also going to share with you for free five different skills you can use to help you generate these from scratch. And I'm even going to show you how to pair these with scheduled tasks so Claude can generate these for you while you sleep. So without further ado, let's dive right into this. So before I show you exactly how we could begin generating images and videos inside of Claude, now I want to talk about something real quickly and that is Claude Co-work could do almost everything except for generate images and videos. And as a co-work power user, this was extremely annoying and honestly one of the things that made Co-work not feel like a complete product yet. So if you aren't familiar with exactly why this would work, that is because the sandbox that Claude Co-work is inside of blocks outside AI tools. This is a perfect graphic to explain exactly what I'm talking about. So right here we have Claude Co-work that's in this sandbox environment and you aren't able to access these different image and video generation tools via API such as Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney or Runway in order to generate images or videos. And this was a big headache. And no matter what you did, there was basically no workaround from inside of co-work that is now fixed with the new Higsfield connector inside of Claude that allows you to not only generate images, but generate videos automatically directly inside of Claude. This is probably the most powerful connector that I've ever used inside of Claude because it solves a massive painoint that any co-work user has had before. The first thing we need to do in order to begin using this is we have to download the claw desktop app in order to use co-work. So, make sure to download this if you're a Mac user as well as a window user, you can download this to your computer and then once you do that, we'll move on to the next step. Next up, we're going to open up the desktop app and we're going to see this interface here. If you've never used this before, let me give you a quick rundown. So, on the top left where you see this little blue square, this is basically like interacting with Claude as if it's chatbt. We could ask it questions. And then right here we can see this little checklist that is co-work mode. And then on the right that icon is code. We really want to focus on co-work in this video. So make sure to select that. And you could see that we now have this interface. Next up, this is what we're going to see on screen. And this is a really important step. So we need to select a specific folder that we want to work inside of. And what I mean by this is there are folders we're going to work inside of on our computer. And that is one of the key powers inside of co-work. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on this. I'm going to scroll down. I'm going to choose a different folder. And from here, I'm just going to select new folder. And I'm just going to call this advertisements. And then we're going to be inside of this new folder. Click on open. Click allow. So, it can add different files. And then we will now see our advertisements folder right here. Another thing I want to note is if you have a pre-existing folder with all of these different assets you want to use for ads, for example, you can just come here and select it. But for most people, you will probably want to start from scratch. And then you'll have your advertisements folder right here. All right. So once you configure that folder inside of Claude Co-work, we next need to leverage these skills that I'm going to show you in this video. So I'm going to show you right now exactly how you could download these. I created them for you guys completely for free and you could access them. There's a link in the description to grab these. Right here we have all of these different skills that I'm going to walk through in this video. But the question is, how do I download these and upload them to Co-work and I'm going to show you that right now. So, if you go to the link in the description, you will see this zip file as well as this PDF right here. So, what we're going to do is let's download this zip file. We're going to see it downloaded here. And then let's download this PDF guide as well. So, first of all, I'm going to pull up this PDF guide. And what and what this is is this is a step-by-step guide on exactly what problem this solves. It's going to break down every single skill that I show in this video, as well as show when to use them. So, I highly suggest you follow along with this video, but also use this PDF guide as a way to guide you through exactly how to use these. Next up, once we download both the zip file and the PDF guide, we need to grab that zip file that we downloaded to our desktop, then we need to come over to the left-hand sidebar inside of Co-Work, click on this customize button, and this is going to take us to plugins. Plugins are basically just a bundle of skills that you could upload into Co-work instead of you having to individually add them. So, I'm going to come here. I'm going to click on create plugin. Click on upload plugin and just drag that zip file right here into co-work. Click on upload. For me, I'm just going to click replace, but for you, it'll just automatically upload this. And just like that, we now have all six of these specific skills here along with a description breaking down exactly what this plugin is for. Real quick, if you guys do want to dive deeper into Claude Co-work, make sure to join my school community. There is a link in the description to do so. Inside of here, there are some highlevel entrepreneurs and professionals that are using Claude Co-work every single day, sharing some pretty cool use cases, as well as we have a full course on how to use co-work inside of here. And all of the resources from my videos are here as well, such as this document here that breaks down exactly how Live Artifacts works. I'm sharing resources in here almost every single day for you guys. So, if you want to join, there is a link in the description to do so. Next up in our setup, this is something that you don't have to do, but I highly advise you do do this as a Claude Co-work Power user. This is a hack that honestly has been one of the most influential things I've done, and that is taking advantage of Clawude projects. Inside of Co-work, we're going to select this projects button on the left-h hand sidebar. And if you do not know what a project is, this is basically a separate ecosystem for different use cases you have for co-work. And it could really help you stay organized. to show you exactly what a project looks like. This is my YouTube's video project. We can chat with it right here. You can see all of the different outputs here from this specific project. We can see all the different chats that are in the project. We can see all of our scheduled tasks. We have specific instructions for this project. We can see any of the context that we have as well as the memory. So, to show you all the projects I have, I have five different ones inside of co-work. I have one for my financials. I have one for my short form. I have one for my school community. I have one for my influencer marketing agency and I have one specifically dedicated for YouTube videos. So, not only do projects help keep you organized and it's a really nice visual inside of Co-work, but a key point here is that we could have separate Claude MD files for each different project. And if you don't know what a Claude MD is, let me break it down super simply now so literally anybody can understand it. Think of this as a markdown file, which is a document that basically just explains a couple of different things. It explains your voice and your tone. It explains your rules, different context that it has on you, specific preferences, and the different tools that you use. Think of this as training an AI employee one time, and it always knows how to perform every single time that you interact with it. And every message that you send Claude in a specific folder, pulls up your MD file every time, so it will always give you similar outputs and responses. To show you exactly what I mean, let's come back into co-work. I'm going to show you my Claude MD file for my YouTube's video folder. So, if I click on instructions here, we can see a Claude MD file that is basically just a set of instructions. And this one is specific to YouTube. So, every single time I message with Claude in this project, it's automatically going to load this so it knows how to work with me on this specific task. But we don't want to use this Claude MD. If we're generating ads, for example, we're most likely going to want to create our own separate Claude MD file for that specific project. And that is why we're going to set up a project. This is a perfect visual. So for YouTube, we're going to have a separate Claude MD file. We're going to have a separate one for ads. We're going to have a separate one for email and for community. That way basically these are custom to whatever we're working on. And the big thing here is this is going to save you a lot of money on token costs because you're not just using an overbloated CLAMD file. That's just going to waste your credits. It's going to be specific to creating advertisements. In order for us to create a project, we're going to come over to the lefth hand sidebar. Make sure that we have selected projects here. And then from here, we're going to click on the top right where it says new project. So I'm going to open that up. We can either start from scratch, import a project from chat mode, or use an existing folder on our computer. So what I'm going to do is use an existing folder. I'm going to select the one that I created at the beginning called advertisements. Once that is selected, we could either explain our instructions right here to Claude, add different files and whatnot, but I'm just going to click create and I'm going to show you a hack in order to populate and create this Claude MD file without you running around like a chicken with your head cut off trying to figure out what to do. Luckily for you guys, inside of the plugin that I'm going to share for this video, there's a link in the description, completely free. Not only are you going to get the skills that I am showing in this video, but you're also going to get this skill that will help you set up this Claude MD file. So, you don't need to start from scratch and do it yourself. And that skill is called setup Higsfield project. As you could see here with all of these instructions that you could change, but this is a really good starting point in order for you to set this up. Now, coming back to our advertisements project, we just need to select this and this is what we're going to see here. Next up, what I'm going to do is type forward slash setup Higsfield project. You will see this populated in the skills that we have inside of Claude. And then literally all I have to do is click on send and it's going to take us through a couple of different questions in order to help us set this up. And the best part about this skill that I gave you is it's going to walk you through a couple of different questions and it's going to pull up this cool little question box for us to walk through a couple of different things. So, first of all, it's going to ask us what should we call this content workspace? What are we making here? what brand voice fits best. And then it's also going to ask which platforms are we actually going to create content for. On top of that, it's going to talk about our default character for this UGC actor that we're creating, as well as the colors and the specific output folder structure. So, let me just go through and add all this. Once we go through that checklist of our different specifications, we will now have a Claude MD file generated. So, we're going to see that in a couple of different spots. You'll see it down here at the very bottom. So, it shows Claude MD. And then also inside of our advertisements project, we can now see instructions which is our CloudMD file. And if I open it up, this is basically a step-by-step guide on exactly how this project should function. And if we want to make any changes to this, we can just go ahead and do so. It's a markdown file. It's very easy to, you know, make changes. It even explains the output structure, which is going to come in handy later on in this video when we start using this. All right, you've installed all the skills. You've set up your working folder for your ads. And we even created a project that you could see right here inside of Claude Co-work. The question is now, how do we connect this to Higsfield and begin generating images and videos? So, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that right now. First of all, what we're going to do is we're going to come over to the left-hand sidebar inside of Co-work. We're going to click on customize. This is where we need to configure our connector. So, we need to click on connectors right here. And what we are going to do is click on this plus button. And we are going to add a custom connector. From here, we're just going to call this Higsfield. And then we're going to paste in this specific URL here. So, screenshot this, paste this exact same URL, and then we're going to click on add. And just like that, you can now see that Higsfield is connected. We have all these different tools um that Claude could basically perform for us right now. So, it could generate images, it could generate videos, show all the generations, all those different things. Key thing here though, you need to make sure you have a Higsfield account. You can always sign up for the cheapest plan in order to begin generating images and videos. And if you hit the limits, then you can upgrade to a higher paid plan. But I do want to say this is the best alternative in order to generate videos and images inside of Claude. Right now, personally, what I'm going to do for these permissions is always allow so that way I don't always have to basically approve every single thing that Co-work is trying to do for me in order to generate videos and images. Do this at your own risk, of course, because it could use up some of your tokens that you don't want. So, just do whatever works best for you. All right. So, let's say we want to add more connectors to Claude that we do not see inside of this list here. Let's say you scroll through all these and there's one that you want to add that's just not inside of here. I'm going to show you how to add other applications right now. And this is a simple hack for nontechnical users. So, I personally use an MCP server called Zap Your MCP, but you could use any MCP server that you would like. So, I'm going to click on get started. And once I'm inside of my account, I'm going to see this interface. For me, I have this MCP server connected, which basically has access to all these different applications and tools. And I could add as many as I want, and there's 9,000 different applications that Zapier MCP can connect to. So, in order to set up a server, we're going to click on new MCP server. We're going to click on co-work. And from here, we could just add any of these apps that we want to so that way we could have access to these connections. Then, once we add our apps and we want to connect this to Claude, we just click on connect up here. We click this add to claude button and all we have to do is click connect Zap year. Click on allow and it should take us back to claude and this should be running smoothly. So any of the apps that we add we can now access, pull information from and perform different actions across with the zap your MCP. All right. And next up, let's test this out. Let's just give it a very simple prompt to generate an image. So I'm just going to come here and say generate an image of a redheaded man standing in front of the Austin skyline. And I want it to be in a GTA 5 style. So, we want to basically check that image generation is working. So, I'm going to show you basically exactly how this is going to work now. And there we go. We could see that Higsfield is now generating this image. This is amazing. If you've used co-work before, this is where we would get stuck. It would basically say, I cannot generate images and videos. And then we would be stuck and we'd have to go use something like Claude Code or a different image generation tool. So, this is pretty cool. We could see it's now using Nano Banana Pro here in a 9x6 format. And then also we could always see our cloud MD file that we created here. So basically this is just our set of instructions that we configured. We could always change this and basically configure our specific style that we would like it to use. All right. And just like that, literally just like 30 seconds later, we have this graphic. It shows Austin. This is in GTA 5 format and it even shows the different buildings from the skyline in Austin. So this is working properly. So one of the main reasons why this is so cool inside of Claude is we could turn anything into a skill. So, let's say we like this exact style of this GTA character in the exact way this looks. Let's now turn this into a skill. So, whenever we want to do something similar, it could generate it like this every single time. So, I'm just literally just going to say, "Hey, can you go ahead and turn this into a skill? I want it to be the GTA 5 skill to generate images like this every single time I use it." And whenever you generate something good, let's say that's a specific advertisement or maybe a profile shot of yourself that's like a business portrait of yourself, you could then turn that into a skill. So that way it could run that exact same way every single time. All right. And 30 seconds later, we now have this skill. You could see inside of this little context thing. And if I pull this up, you can see basically this description. It shows the exact prompt template, etc. So whenever I want to generate this exact same style, I could do so just by using like one singular word and it will trigger this skill. Next up, I want to show you the product to ad skill that's inside of this plug-in. And this is a co-work skill that turns a product image into a UGC video ad and it automatically pulls product images you have stored in a folder on your desktop and turns those into video advertisements. And this skill right here really shows the power of what Claude Co-work and Hicksfield together can really do. So this skill is going to complete this exact same process here. It's going to read the images in that folder. It's going to generate a specific actor for us to use. It's going to composite the scene, write the script, and then render the video for us automatically. And on top of all of that, the videos and images generated are going to be added to that specific folder we're working inside of on our desktop. All right, so I'm inside of my advertisements project here. We're inside of the specific working folder we want to work inside of. And let me just show you this folder that I have on my desktop. So this is the advertisements folder that we are working inside of. And we have a couple of different things. We have four different product images of these blue light blocker sunglasses. And we're basically going to pull the images that are inside of here into co-work because it has context on everything inside of this folder. And it's going to generate advertisements for us on autopilot with this specific skill I'm going to show you. I'm just going to come back here and say forward slash and say product to advertisement to basically invoke this skill. And I'm going to say turn the images inside of that folder into a video ad. All right. So, one of the coolest things about this skill is it's going to really hone in who we are speaking to and the specific tone that we're going for with this ad. So, it's always going to ask us this question. It's going to pull up this little ad brief details box. So, let me just go ahead and select this. So, who is this ad speaking to? I want to speak to the late night tech worker. What tone should the ad strike? Let's do calm and educational. Then, we want them to use code checkout. And let's just go ahead and continue with that. And now, it's going to generate the ad with those specifications along with those images of those the product that's in the folder. All right. So, here we go. we have this sole character created, which if you don't know what this is, I'm going to break down how to create one later in this video, but this is a feature inside of Hicksfield that will generate characters that you can use across your different projects. So, that way you could generate a character or a UGC creator one time and you could leverage that and use it in all the different ads you have. So, we could go ahead change this if we want. We could download this. We could animate it directly inside of Claude. But, I'm going to now show you the videos that were generated. Also, here is the first picture that was generated. This was generated with Nano Banana Pro. So what it's going to do is it's going to first take that beginning image and then turn that into a video. So this is that first frame of that image and then now it could show you these videos. These Red Lens blue light blockers save my eyes during late night screen time. Honestly, a game changer. >> I mean that is pretty crazy if you really think about it. Then we also have this one. >> Red Lens screen glasses. Instantly warmer, way less harsh blue at night. >> So I mean as you could see the visuals on this are phenomenal. I believe it's using Seed Dance 2.0, which is the newest video model. And I mean, it's really solid. We could obviously change what we want the character to say, but I think this is a really, really good starting point, to be honest. And then we could either download this right here. We could open the link. It'll take us to Hicksfield. I could view it right here. >> Blockers save my eyes during late night screen time. Honestly, a game changer. >> I mean, guys, that's spectacular. That's pretty crazy. And then I could also recreate that as well. So, if I want to regenerate this, it's as easy as doing it right here. And then here is the third one as well. This one looks pretty cool with the lighting. >> If screens keep you up, these red lens blue blockers are my nightly reset. >> I mean, you guys could see the potential here. And again, we could download this right now. And then another cool thing about this skill that I gave you guys is it even shows the caption here that we could automatically use for this, you know, ad creative. So, if we want to post this to Instagram, for example, we could just copy this text. It says, "Stop trusting clear blue light glasses past 9:00 p.m. They block about 30% of blue light. that isn't enough to protect melatonin once the sun goes down. But guys, this is the power of using Higsfield, but also using the power of Claude Co-work and all these amazing features when it comes to skills, being able to save this to your folders on your desktop, all these different things. It feels like co-work is really becoming more and more powerful. Something that will take this to the next level when it comes to generating UGC ads with Higsfield and Claude Co-work together is running scheduled tasks on autopilot. So that way, even when you're not touching your computer, you could automatically generate different advertisements for you to wake up to and have them ready to go and ready to post. It's as simple as just coming over and clicking new task. We could give it a name. We could just call this UGC daily or something like that. Give it a description. And we need to select whatever, you know, folder we want to work inside of. The cool part about this is we could drop a couple of different product images into a folder that we're working inside of and basically say, I want you to always pull from here, pull the new product images, and every day I want you to generate five different videos for each product. And that is one of the main powerful features here when combining co-work and Higsfield. It's pretty wild when you play around with it. All right, so next up, I want to show you how you could generate custom characters like this. And this is using the sole feature inside of Higsfield. So all I had to do was upload a couple of different reference images of myself. And I could basically generate myself in any setting. As you can see, I basically said, "Generate an image of me on the Forbes stage giving a presentation about AI." I mean, those are pretty solid. It actually does look pretty close to me. And this is actually a really good headsh shot here. So, not only can we generate images, but we could then generate videos on top of that. So, this is great if you want to generate images or videos for Instagram or even do product advertisements um with your face or your likeness. or you could basically create your own custom character from scratch if you don't want to use your face. First thing I do want to mention is we don't always need to be using Higsfield inside of Claude Co-work. We could go directly to Higsfield if we don't want to waste our Claude tokens because you're not always going to need to use co-work to generate these images. You could just go directly to Higsfield. So, what I'm going to do is come over to Higsfield. And guys, there are so many features in this platform that I can't even begin to touch on, but I'm just going to show you how to use the character feature in order to generate an ID of yourself or, you know, a specific character you want to create. So, we're going to come over here and click on character on the top right here. So, I'm going to click on it. Click on soul ID character. And from here, we are going to be brought to this page. I already have a couple that I've created, but let me show you very quickly how to generate these. So, we could come over, click on generate character, and we want to make sure to add clear photos of our face that don't have bad lighting or specifically don't have other people in the images. So, I'm just going to upload some. I have this folder right here of images of myself. I'm just going to click on open. Now, it's going to upload all of these. And again, the more images you add, the better with good lighting and, you know, nothing blocking your face. So, for example, this one right here I should probably remove because I am wearing sunglasses. All the other ones are pretty solid and, you know, make for some dynamic images of myself. Next, I'm just going to click on create. And now it's going to spin this up. This should take maybe two to three minutes and we should have our character generated. And then once our character is generated, we could just click on it. And right here, we could basically start generating images. So, I gave the prompt, generate an image of Brock filming a YouTube video in his office with cool cinematic lighting, talking to the camera while showing a demo on his laptop. And then I'm going to select the aspect ratio I want to generate these images in. Let's do 16x9. We could choose the quality prompt enhance. We could turn it on so that way it's going to take this very basic prompt and make it better. And then we could generate as many of these images as we want. Let's go ahead move with four and just click generate. All right. And just like that, we actually have these images of me in a office filming a video with cinematic lighting. This looks really cool. I honestly wish my setup looked like that. So you guys could hopefully begin to see how powerful this sole feature inside of Higsfield is. And it's even more powerful when we combine this with co-work and begin running specific skills in order to generate different advertisements, images, and videos with all of these different characters we create. All right, so another one of the skills that's inside of this plug-in pack that I gave you for free. And that is genuinely insane when you use it with Higsfield is the IG carousel skill. This will actually generate Instagram carousels for us on autopilot. And let me show you exactly what I mean. All right, so here are the carousels that I've generated myself, and they look pretty awesome. Right here it says five claw code skills I can't live without. It shows the morning breathing skill, Instagram carousel generator, invoice generator, receipt scanner. All of these different images were generated with this skill I'm about to show you, as well as this one right here. This is another carousel, and then this one as well. I mean, these are insanely good if you think about it. The fact that AI is generating all of these. And to show you how this is working in practice, let's head over to my Instagram right here. This carousel has 2500 likes and it has about 3,000 comments right here. So, this looks absolutely flawless and they're performing extremely well. As you could see on my um Instagram page, this one has almost 800 likes. It's got about 1,900 comments. So, these are working and I'm going to show you now how you could generate carousels and you're probably going to want to customize them to your own liking. But, this is a great starting point for you to begin creating carousels on autopilot using Claude Co-work and Hicksfield. All right. So, I'm back inside of my advertisements folder inside of co-work. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do forward slash IG carousel. And from here, I'm just going to write out exactly what I want to create this about. Generate an Instagram carousel about the new Claude Live artifacts I just released. So, for example, like this is going to be specific to me in creating AI news and AI content. As you can see on my Instagram, it's fit to my style and I customized that. This skill will be a really good starting point for you to begin generating carousels. And you could just go back and forth and tell Claude exactly how you want these outputs to look. For me personally, I gave it a couple of reference images that I screenshot, fed it to Claude, and say, "Hey, I want you to generate, you know, these images similar to these." And then it's really good at creating those. And if you do want to customize that skill, you're just going to come over here on the right hand side where it shows skills. You're going to select this. You could then click manage, and then it'll bring you over to all of your different skills. You're going to want to click on it. And from here, you could just click edit with Claude. And basically, you could just do a brain dump and give it all of the instructions on exactly how you want it to look. All right. And probably about 2 3 minutes later, we now have these visuals that have been crafted and we could view them directly inside of Claude, which is pretty cool. We could open them up. We could even make changes to each of these. We could animate them, turn them into videos if we'd like, and we could directly download them inside of here. This is really good for this first initial prompt that I gave it. We could change this, make different iterations and then say save that as a skill. So we could always use that exact same format. That is the power of using Claude Co-work and Hicksfield together. Also, if you want to go and iterate further and not waste your Claude tokens, you could go directly into Higsfield and you will see this along with all the other images you have generated um inside of your account and you could make changes directly inside of here, whether you want to relight it, enhance it, you know, change whatever the text says, etc. All right guys, there we have it. We dove very deep in how to use Claude Co-work and Higsfield together to generate images and videos. We even built out some custom automations in order to run this on autopilot. If you guys got some value from this video, leave a like, subscribe to the channel for more content. And if you want to dive even deeper, join my school community. There is a link in the description to do so. As well as if you want the resources for free for all the plugins that I showed in this video, there's also a link to grab those as well. Without further ado, guys, thank you so so much for staying to the end and I'll see you in the next video. Cheers.