A good thumbnail is the difference between a video getting 1000 views and one getting a million views. And not just that, having consistent thumbnails like this will enhance the overall look of your channel and help you build your brand identity. But creating a professional and attractive thumbnail for every video can take a lot of time and effort.
So in this article, I’m going to show you how you can use AI to create amazing thumbnails like these in just a few minutes. The exciting part is that we will even generate the character using AI. We will be able to make this character do anything we want. Different poses, expressions, actions, anything. This way, you won’t need to bother taking multiple photos of yourself or hiring a graphic designer. Sounds interesting, right? To make our YouTube thumbnails with AI, we are going to do three simple steps. So let’s start with step one, which is to create our AI character. So first, we’re going to create our AI character for our thumbnail and then use it to create the thumbnails. So click the link in the description, and it’ll take you to this page. To start using this tool, we need to sign up. Now click here and sign up with your Google account. Now, to create our AI character, we need to train the AI by uploading some photos of the person we want our character to look like. So to do that, click Create Your AI Actor. And here, you can see that you can only train one AI actor for free. Now click upload photos, select the gender and age, and give a name for the character. Then here, you need to upload at least 10 high-quality pictures of the person who the AI character has to look like. And here, you can check the type of pictures that you have to upload. Make sure this person’s face is very clear, with different backgrounds, angles, facial expressions, etc. Also, avoid pictures like these. This way, the AI will train better and give better results. So to upload, click here, select the images, and click upload. Once you have uploaded the images, click Start Training. And as you can see, our AI character is ready. If you go to Image Studio, you can see how the AI character looks in different images. Okay. Once you’ve created the character, let’s say you want this AI character to show specific poses or reactions that are needed for your thumbnail. Right now, you can see that these are the random images generated by the AI.
To get images suitable for your thumbnail, let’s move on to the second step, which is to create new images for the AI character. To create a new image, click Create New Image. Here, select the type of image as general, so we get a wide shot of the character looking at different angles, and then select the image size. Another cool feature we have here is director mode. With this, you can set the character’s position and placement as you like. So you can try this out if you want. For now, I’m going to create a normal image. So next, type Portrait of and click here. Select your character. Now here, you need to enter the image you want to generate. You can describe the character, the dress, what the character needs to be doing in the image, whether it’s a type of pose or expression that you need, etc. So I’m going to enter that. Now check out all these options, then select the style of the image you want and click generate. As you can see, we’ve got some really cool images. To download the one you like, just click on it, right-click, click save image as, go here, select all the files, and rename the file if you want. Then make sure you add.png at the end and save it. All right. Now the AI character images are ready, but you must have noticed this watermark on the image, which doesn’t look good. So to remove it, let’s go to watermarkremover.io and just drag and drop the image here. And as you can see, the watermark was removed instantly. So let’s click here and download it. To create the thumbnail, we only need the character without the background. So to remove this background, let’s go to removal.ai and drag and drop the image here.
And it’s done. Just click here and download the image. We now have an image of our character that is free of any watermarks or background, which means we can now start creating a thumbnail by adding various background elements and text. So let’s move on to the final step, which is to create our thumbnail. To do this, just click the link in the description, and you will be taken to this This is where we are going to create our thumbnail. So first, sign in with your Google account. Once you’re signed in, click here and search for YouTube thumbnails. As you can see, there are various amazing thumbnails available. So just click on the one you like and click here to customize it. First, let’s remove this image. So click on it and click the delete icon. Now go here, click uploads, and select your character’s images without any background. To add it to this template, just click it, and then you can adjust the size like this. To change the position of these texts, just click on them and drag them to the position you want. To edit these texts, first let’s select it, then delete it, add your text, and then adjust its position. If you want to change the font, you can do that from here and adjust the position of any extra elements that you want. Now let’s say you want to change this background. Click here, then go here and experiment with different colors. Once you’re happy with the result, just go here, click download, click download again, and it’s done. As you can see, this thumbnail looks very eye-catching and attractive. Similarly, you can experiment with different AI characters and templates to create impactful thumbnails for your YouTube videos. So that’s it, guys. This is how you can create YouTube thumbnails using AI.
