Make a thumbnail from your photo

You create an identity profile — a named set of a few photos of one person. When you generate in Photo mode, those photos are sent to the model as references together with your idea, for example “shocked expression, pointing at a glowing PC”.

The model keeps the likeness as closely as it can. It’s good, but not perfect: hairstyle, age or face shape can drift, so check each result and generate a few options.

• Clear and sharp, taken in good light — daylight from a window works well.
• Face fully visible: no sunglasses, no hands or hair covering it.
• Different angles: one frontal, one or two slightly turned.
• A plain background and no other people in the frame.
• Your current look — if you changed your hair or beard, use recent photos.
• JPG, PNG or WebP. Metadata such as location is removed on upload.

You can upload photos of yourself — or of another person only with their explicit permission. Thumbora asks you to confirm this for every face upload.

You can delete a photo or a whole profile at any time; the files are then removed from storage.

Describe the emotion and the pose in the idea: “laughing with eyes closed”, “skeptical, one eyebrow raised”, “pointing to the right at the product”. Strong, readable emotions work better at small sizes than subtle ones.

1. Create a profile and upload a few photos.
2. Start a project in Photo mode, choose the profile and describe the scene.
3. Generate several options and compare likeness and expression.
4. Fine-tune with an AI edit (“make the smile bigger”) or in the editor.
5. Export a 1280×720 JPG for YouTube.