A better visual starts with a clearer thought.
Most weak pictures were never asked to do anything. Give each one a job, a few familiar ingredients, and a check at phone size.
Decide what the picture has to do
Before you open a camera or a generator, finish this sentence: this picture needs to make someone feel something, or understand something. “Feel that the workshop is calm” leads to a very different photo than “understand how the hinge works.” Most weak visuals were never asked to do anything.
One job per picture. If it has two, make two pictures.
Use a small set of ingredients you already own
Your colours, one or two typefaces, your logo, and the kind of photo you actually have: the workbench, the van, the finished job on the customer’s wall. A visual made from those will look like you even when it is not perfect. A visual made from a stock library will look like everyone.
Write the ingredients down once. Then every picture, generated or shot, starts from the same short list, and your feed starts to look like one business instead of five.
Let the words and the picture split the work
If the picture already shows the finished shelf, the words do not need to describe it. They can say why it took a year. If the words carry the story, the picture can be simple: one object, a lot of space, your colours.
When both try to say everything, the post shouts. When each does its half, the post reads.
Check it at the size people will see it
Nobody sees your post at full screen. They see it at the width of a thumb. Shrink the preview to the size of a phone in your hand and ask: can I still read the important words? Is the subject obvious? Did the crop keep the detail I wanted to show?
Then put it next to your last five posts. It does not need to match them. It needs to look like it came from the same place.