Task prompt · Image Prompts
Make a thumbnail with my face from a selfie
by Agent Yard TeamPut your real face into a bold YouTube thumbnail.
Use cases
- Put your real face into a bold YouTube thumbnail.
- When you already have a selfie and want the AI to work from it instead of starting from scratch.
- Reuse it as often as you like: fill in the blanks (video title; emotion; scene) with new details and copy again.
- As one step of the Make YouTube thumbnails prompt pack.
Featured in: Best Grok prompts for photo editing, Best Gemini prompts for photo editing, Best Gemini prompts for YouTube videos.
How to use it
- Open chatgpt.com or gemini.google.com (or another AI listed here) and use its image generation (in Gemini, the image model; in Grok, Imagine).
- Attach a clear, well-lit, front-facing selfie (no heavy filters).
- Fill in the highlighted blanks ([VIDEO TITLE], [EMOTION], [SCENE]) below, or edit them after pasting.
- Copy the prompt, paste it into the chat and send.
- Add the title text afterwards in an editor for clean lettering.
Fill in the blanks (optional)
Prompt
Using the attached selfie, create a 16:9 YouTube thumbnail for a video called "[VIDEO TITLE]". Keep my face and identity exactly the same, with a [EMOTION] expression. Background: [SCENE]. Bright, high contrast, subject on the right third, empty space on the left for text. No text in the image.
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