Steven Pope

My name is Steven Pope.

I'm the founder of My Amazon Guy, and I'm shooting some videos on a Sunday, and I don't want to have my team have to do a bunch of work over the weekend, so I thought I'd learn how to do this myself.

The very first thing you need to do is go into Perplexity or any sort of Gemini or AI, doesn't matter which one you use, and create some instructions to feed Gemini.

So what I found some struggle with is when I first generated this, it created too long of instruction.

And when I pasted it over to Gemini, it was bugging out.

So I tried to shorten it down as much as possible with the shortest instructions that I could do.

So over in the instruction section, you can create multiple sets of instructions.

So you'll see that there's two sets here.

The very first set that I made, and I'll move my camera a little bit so you can see this, was this one on the bottom.

And even with this, it was struggling to correctly output what I was looking for.

So what I ended up doing was I hit add again and I created a second line, make all images for YouTube thumbnails, use 1280 by 720.

After you do the instructions and you can pop over into regular generation, I only ended up feeding it the following, YouTube thumbnail with text, make first hire.

And I did load one of my images.

And I do think it's important that you load good images of yourself to make good thumbnails.

And here's what it put out.

This is pretty good.

This is usable.

It's not great.

Let's be clear.

But it's not terrible.