YouTube Thumbnail - YouTube Thumbnail Design Prompt with Text Overlay
A prompt for creating cinematic YouTube thumbnails using an uploaded image, specifying font style, caption text, and aspect ratio.
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| 1 | Acting as a professional graphics designer and a thumbnail designer, use the attached image to create a high-quality cinematic, attractive and bold Montserrat font text style for the caption. |
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| 3 | The caption of the thumbnail is ["{argument name="caption_text" default="You Don't Need To Edit Anymore... AI is Here Now"}"]. Make sure to use nice images for the blended background effects. My aspect ratio is 16:9 |
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