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Pixel art YouTube thumbnails with AI
High contrast 16:9 frames with space left for your title text. In a pixel art style: low resolution sprites and scenes.
Prompts to start from
Each one is a YouTube thumbnails subject with the pixel art style words added: pixel art, 16 bit, limited palette
shocked man holding a glowing circuit board, pixel art, 16 bit, limited paletteTry ita lone astronaut on a red desert, pixel art, 16 bit, limited paletteTry ita stack of gold bars in a vault with dramatic rim light, pixel art, 16 bit, limited paletteTry it
Settings
- Shape: wide 16:9. Use 1024x576 on standard models or 2048x1152 on the 2K model.
- Cheapest way to try it: Fluently XL at $0.010 an image, so $0.10 for ten.
- New accounts get 3 free images a day on the cheaper models.
Tips
- Say where the empty space should be.
- Saturated backgrounds read better at small sizes.
- State the palette size.
- Clean up the grid in a pixel editor.
Pick a model
| Model | Size | Per image | 10 images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluently XL | 1024x576 | $0.010 | $0.10 | Try it |
| DreamShaper XL | 1024x576 | $0.010 | $0.10 | Try it |
| Juggernaut Pro Flux | 1024x576 | $0.030 | $0.30 | Try it |
| Chroma | 1024x576 | $0.040 | $0.40 | Try it |
| Recraft V4.1 | 1024x576 | $0.060 | $0.60 | Try it |
| Flux LoRA | 1024x576 | $0.090 | $0.90 | Try it |
| Recraft V4.1 Pro | 2048x1152 | $0.33 | $3.30 | Try it |
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