Beauty Thumbnail Maker

1280 x 720 pixels, 16:9, under 2MB, in JPG, PNG, GIF or WEBP. That is the same for every niche. Design at that size from the first click rather than resizing at the end, because resizing a finished design moves text you placed carefully.

The face is the canvas, the product and the proof at once. Clean even lighting is not optional, because lighting competence is part of what the audience is judging you on.

Colour accuracy matters more than impact. In most niches you push saturation for feed presence, but here if the lip colour in the thumbnail does not match the product in the video, the comments will say so. Push contrast rather than hue.

Your own imagery. Product shots you took yourself, or brand assets where the brand has explicitly given you permission as part of a partnership. Retail listing photos are usually licensed to the retailer rather than free to reuse. Since a monetised channel counts as commercial use, assume you need permission unless the brand states otherwise in writing.

Yes, with one condition. Use the same angle, the same lighting and the same crop on both halves. If the before is badly lit and the after is not, the audience reads it as manipulation and the trust is gone.

Three to five at most. The thumbnail is seen at around 168 pixels wide on a phone, and longer text at that size becomes a grey smudge. If the words repeat what the image already shows, delete them and let the picture work.

The AI generators sit on the Pro plan, which includes 1,000 credits a month, and Magic Edit and erase draw on the same credits. The free plan is permanent rather than a trial and never asks for a card, and it covers outlier search and three tracked channels, so you can see what already worked in beauty before deciding whether to pay for the generator.

Feed in a reference image or a face and the generator holds your likeness and style across generations. Consistency matters most where the audience is subscribing to you rather than to the topic, which is true of most beauty channels.