Everything Thumblore does, explained
Documentation for every feature in the product, plus the workflow guides behind them — written as the steps you actually take, what each one costs in credits, and which plan unlocks it.
Nothing matched that. Try a feature name — “avatar”, “text”, “watermark” — or ask us directly.
Getting started
Your first thumbnail, what credits are, and what each plan unlocks.
Getting started
Sign up, save a face, write a brief, generate, edit, download — the whole loop in five steps.
Read guide →How credits work
What spends credits, what does not, and the five habits that make a balance last longer.
Read guide →Plans & limits
Credits, avatar caps, editor tabs and watermarks compared across all four tiers.
Read guide →Account & settings
Display name, the watermark switch, and which of your data lives where.
Read guide →Generating thumbnails
Every field on the generation screen, and what to put in it.
Generating a thumbnail
Every field on the generation screen, what it controls, and how to write a brief that works first time.
Read guide →Headlines & text
The two text fields, five rules for headlines that read at 168 pixels, and generated text vs. layers.
Read guide →Scene moods
What a mood actually changes, which combinations work, and which mood suits your niche.
Read guide →Video reactions
Eight expressions, what each promises a viewer, and the mismatch penalty for over-promising.
Read guide →Reference templates
Three ways to set a style reference, what carries across from it, and the pitfalls.
Read guide →Reference from a video URL
Paste a YouTube link, get that video's thumbnail as your style reference. Free, no credits.
Read guide →Story / Short / Reel (9:16)
Native 9:16 composition for Shorts, Reels, Stories and TikTok covers — not a crop.
Read guide →Faceless thumbnails
When to drop the face, what has to replace it, and how faceless channels stay recognisable.
Read guide →Avatars & faces
Saving a face, designing a character, swapping and extracting faces.
Creating an avatar
Upload up to three photos, name the face, reuse it on every thumbnail after that.
Read guide →AI avatar generator
Build an original character from a feature brief. Previews are free — you pay for the one you keep.
Read guide →Face swap
Replace the person in a finished thumbnail with any saved face. The layout you liked survives.
Read guide →Face extract (pop-out)
Lift the subject out as a movable cutout and rebuild the background behind them.
Read guide →Changing expression
Eight expressions applied to a finished thumbnail, identity and pose preserved.
Read guide →Several faces in one frame
Multi-select your avatars for collabs, podcasts and versus formats — plus the guest-series shortcut.
Read guide →Editing a thumbnail
The seven editor tabs — moods, scenes, expressions, lighting, text and plain-English edits.
The editor
Seven tabs, two kinds of edit, and the order to do them in so you spend fewest credits.
Read guide →Click to edit
Click the shirt, say 'make this black'. Pointing removes the hardest part of writing a prompt.
Read guide →Mood presets
Ten grades applied to a finished thumbnail without touching its composition.
Read guide →Scene presets
Ten backdrops layered into the existing scene rather than replacing it.
Read guide →Lighting presets
Six relights. Rim Backlight is the closest thing to a universal improvement.
Read guide →Text extract & replace
Swap words inside the artwork itself — exact replace, or an AI rewrite.
Read guide →Text layers
Draggable type with exact control over size, colour, weight, outline and rotation. Costs nothing.
Read guide →Custom edit chat
Any change, described in words. The one editor tab that is never locked.
Read guide →Position & size
Six one-click moves that fix placement without regenerating the whole composition.
Read guide →Removing the person
Take the subject out and rebuild the background — the fastest route to a reusable clean plate.
Read guide →Autosave & undo
Everything saves itself. Undo is free, and using it before correcting saves real credits.
Read guide →Library & exports
Projects, downloads, watermarks and the templates gallery.
Projects & collections
How your library files itself, and the naming convention that keeps it usable at fifty thumbnails.
Read guide →Downloads & exports
Original resolution, no crop, layers flattened — plus YouTube's specs and the 2 MB limit.
Read guide →Removing the watermark
Any paid plan exports clean — including thumbnails you made while on Free.
Read guide →Templates gallery
Proven layouts used as style references — and how to replace them with three of your own.
Read guide →Workflow guides
Brand management, channel consistency, collection management and full channel makeovers.
Brand management
Eight decisions that make a brand — and how to stop renegotiating them every video.
Read guide →Channel consistency
Four things that must not change, everything else that should, and the squint test.
Read guide →Collection management
The four-layer structure, the quarterly review, and how to reuse instead of regenerate.
Read guide →Channel makeover
Four phases, three reference frames, and why rebuilding your top twenty beats rebuilding everything.
Read guide →Multi-brand structure
A prefix system that turns flat lists into folders — plus how to keep four brands looking different.
Read guide →Still stuck on something?
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