Magic Hour thumbnails

Make the actual topic legible in a small image. Visual drama is useful only if the viewer can identify the subject and the promised content exists in the video.

Infer the hook from supplied content and recommend one composition; do not require a technical prompt or a long creative interview. Honor existing spending authorization and delegated creative decisions while respecting requested draft approvals. Show the finished cover first. For concept selection, editable headlines and series reuse, read cover design.

Find the honest visual hook

Read the supplied title, transcript, outline or footage. Choose one specific tension, comparison or outcome that it supports. Do not invent a result, reaction, endorsement, screenshot or person to make the cover more clickable. Use an authorized source image when face or product identity matters.

Build a composition around one dominant subject and one supporting cue. Put optional exact copy in a separate layout layer. Let copy complement the title rather than restating a long sentence; preserve supplied wording unless adaptation is authorized. Use the destination's actual aspect ratio and overlay regions; a thumbnail and a vertical cover need separately reviewed layouts.

Generate only the needed visual

Use ai_image_editor_create_image for reference-based changes; use ai_image_generator_create_image when no source must be preserved. State the subject's position, scale, expression if relevant, contrast and copy region. Request the change first and protected identity second. Do not depend on generated lettering for an exact headline.

Use my supplied workshop photo. Make the repaired blue chair the dominant subject on the right, with the damaged chair from my second photo smaller on the left. Preserve both chairs' actual construction and damage; do not exaggerate the result. Simple workshop background, clear separation, no added words. Leave the upper-left area clear for my exact headline.

If the brief supports two candidate concepts and the budget covers both, vary one meaningful idea: the comparison, framing, or subject expression. Do not spend on several nearly identical adjective changes. Generate the first candidate, inspect it, then decide whether the second answers a real question.