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YouTube thumbnail with big text

Aspect ratio
16:9
Needs a photo
Yes — yours
Words
117

The prompt

Turn my photo into a YouTube thumbnail with a headline rendered in the image. Set the text "I TRIED IT FOR 30 DAYS" in a heavy condensed sans-serif across the left half, in white with a thick black outline, filling that half edge to edge in two or three lines. Spell it exactly as written. Place me on the right, cut out, with a coloured outline separating me from a dark gradient background. One accent colour only, used in the text and repeated behind me. High contrast, no small details. Keep my face, bone structure, natural skin tone and identity exactly as they are in my photo — change the styling around me, never who I am.

“Use it” opens the editor with this prompt already loaded — add your photo and generate. Copy works anywhere else: ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney.

One thing that helps

Swap the headline for your own before copying. Text renders more reliably on the GPT Image model than on Nano Banana.

🖼️Or skip the promptThumbnail MakerThe same look as a one-click app, with the settings already chosen.
youtubethumbnailtextheadline

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