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Create thumbnail concepts with one idea and a clean focal hierarchy.
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Design a 16:9 thumbnail concept about [topic]. One expressive focal subject on the [left/right], one supporting object, high foreground/background separation, room for no more than [3–5] large words, truthful emotion, no tiny detail, no logos, no watermark.
How to use this workflow
- Generate the visual without text first.
- Add typography in a design tool.
- Check readability at phone size.
Failure diagnosis and next prompt
Observed failureLikely causeNext change
The result is genericOne or more bracketed fields are still broad.Narrow the audience, input evidence and output format.
The result invents factsThe model was not given source material or uncertainty rules.Supply first-party sources and require unknowns to be labeled.
A revision breaks good workThe repair request rewrites the entire output.Name one failure and state what must remain unchanged.
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Design a 16:9 thumbnail concept about [topic]. One expressive focal subject on the [left/right], one supporting object, high foreground/background separation, room for no more than [3–5] large words, truthful emotion, no tiny detail, no logos, no watermark.
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