Steven Pope

But it is highly necessary.

This is a repeatable task, and it's very much worth setting up a couple of lines of generic text that you never have to do again.

And here's the proof once we finally got to that.

Design a YouTube thumbnail with first tire.

Some of these are really terrible as they are trying to be generated.

Um, and, and I had a hard time with getting it to follow instructions, but after a few rounds of this and getting the instructions correctly, uh, we were able to finally get some correctly generated ones.

Here's another one that came up with, I have no idea why it had my forehead twice or added the text master Gmail filters, but this one is also usable, not great, but usable.

And if you're looking at this video, it's because you just need usable thumbnails and that's good enough, right?

And that's really the litmus test for AI.

It's good enough.

You didn't have to pay anybody for this.

Gemini Pro is dirt cheap.

And with about 10 minutes of effort watching this video, you too can get thumbnails that are not great, but usable.

And CTR is the fastest way to grow a YouTube channel, click-through rate.

And so getting thumbnails better than bad is really important.

These are B minus B at best level thumbnails, and they're good enough.

All right, so next what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give it the prompt, YouTube thumbnail with text, thumbnail tutorial, Gemini, and we're gonna find a photo of me and load it in here and make it happen.

So let's just do the same image we used last time, see how it comes out.

Now the bottom right here, this is a step that is frustrating.

I wish it would default to pro because I don't ever want it fast.