Want MrBeast-style thumbnails without hiring a designer? With Photo AI, you can generate custom YouTube thumbnails in minutes featuring yourself anywhere using AI.
Start by select an existing one you’ve already made:
Or create a new model first:
Go to [ Create new AI model ] in the sidebar. Upload around 20 photos of your model, this could be yourself or someone you’ve hired.
In about a minute, Photo AI will train a photorealistic, personalized AI model that looks just like them.
You can reuse this model for photos in the future.
Scroll down and click on the AI Thumbnail Tool photo pack. This is pre-optimized for bold facial expressions and high-conversion poses perfect for YouTube.
Tap the photo pack and confirm:
It will now start running the photo pack and generating AI thumbnails. Once it’s done it’ll look like this:
On purpose most images have bright colorful backgrounds that are easy to remove. Just this color as a background doesn’t make the thumbnail very interesting though.
Pick a photo you like, maybe upscale it:
Then hover over it, and tap [ AI Edit ]:
Now type what you want to see for your thumbnail:
Examples:
“change background to a green swamp in a horror movie”
or
“add a giant treasure chest with golden coins behind me”
or
“change to uninhabited tropical island with coconut trees”
Your thumbnail is ready to go:
“change background to a green swamp in a horror movie”
“add a giant treasure chest with golden coins behind me”
“change to uninhabited tropical island with coconut trees” (this one had one Zoom Out before)
Optional: hit [ Upscale ] to boost resolution and get ultra-sharp detail, and [ Zoom out ] to show more of the full body of the model.
It usually takes a few edits and tweaks to get exactly what you want:
No Photoshop, no designers — just viral thumbnails, instantly.
Try it now on Photo AI.