Professional Travel Thumbnail Prompt for AI

PROFESSIONAL YOUTUBE THUMBNAIL PROMPT — FACE LOCK, POSE RECOMPOSITION, CAMERA STRAP ACCURACY & SMART BACKGROUND ENHANCEMENT
🎛️ CUSTOMIZE SETTINGS — EDIT THESE VALUES FIRST
**Instructions for users:** Change only the values you want to customize. Keep the setting names and all other instructions unchanged. If you do not want to customize a setting, leave its default value.



📝 MAIN TITLE = BEAUTIFUL United States 

📌 SECONDARY TEXT = A DAY IN New Work City

🎬 THUMBNAIL TOPIC = United State travel vlog 

🧍 PERSON'S POSE = Natural, confident travel-presenter pose 👀 GAZE & EXPRESSION = Natural, confident expression; looking toward the camera or destination as appropriate 📷 CAMERA / HANDHELD OBJECT = Hold a realistic camera if suitable for the thumbnail; remove unrelated objects 🤚 CAMERA HOLDING HAND = Right hand, unless a different hand produces a more natural composition 🔗 CAMERA STRAP = Correct attachment points, continuous natural path, physically accurate placement according to the camera, hand, shoulder, and body position 🌅 BACKGROUND ENHANCEMENT = Subtle, realistic enhancement suited to the actual uploaded background 🌫️ BACKGROUND BLUR = Mild and natural; preserve recognizable scenery 📍 PERSON PLACEMENT = Right side, when suitable for the composition 🎨 THUMBNAIL STYLE = Premium, photorealistic, professional travel thumbnail 🖼️ ASPECT RATIO = 16:9 🔍 OUTPUT QUALITY = Highest quality supported by the image-generation tool
💡 TWO CUSTOMIZATION EXAMPLES
**Example 1 — Travel vlog with a camera**
📝 MAIN TITLE = EXPLORE BANGLADESH 📌 SECONDARY TEXT = MY TRAVEL VLOG 🎬 THUMBNAIL TOPIC = Exploring Cox's Bazar beach 🧍 PERSON'S POSE = Standing naturally while holding a camera and looking toward the ocean 👀 GAZE & EXPRESSION = Interested, confident, natural expression 📷 CAMERA / HANDHELD OBJECT = DSLR camera 🤚 CAMERA HOLDING HAND = Right hand 🔗 CAMERA STRAP = Naturally connected to both camera attachment points, following a physically plausible path over the shoulder or around the neck 🌅 BACKGROUND ENHANCEMENT = Subtly enhance the existing beach colors and sunlight 🌫️ BACKGROUND BLUR = Very mild; keep the beach and ocean recognizable 📍 PERSON PLACEMENT = Right side 🎨 THUMBNAIL STYLE = Professional travel photography 🖼️ ASPECT RATIO = 16:9 🔍 OUTPUT QUALITY = Highest supported quality
**Example 2 — City exploration without a camera**
📝 MAIN TITLE = CITY EXPLORER 📌 SECONDARY TEXT = A DAY IN THE CITY 🎬 THUMBNAIL TOPIC = Exploring a recognizable city landmark 🧍 PERSON'S POSE = Relaxed, confident standing pose, slightly turned toward the landmark 👀 GAZE & EXPRESSION = Natural expression, looking toward the landmark 📷 CAMERA / HANDHELD OBJECT = No camera; remove unrelated handheld objects 🤚 CAMERA HOLDING HAND = Not applicable 🔗 CAMERA STRAP = Not applicable 🌅 BACKGROUND ENHANCEMENT = Improve the existing city's exposure, clarity, and natural colors 🌫️ BACKGROUND BLUR = Subtle; preserve important buildings and landmarks 📍 PERSON PLACEMENT = Right side, if suitable 🎨 THUMBNAIL STYLE = Clean, photorealistic city-exploration thumbnail 🖼️ ASPECT RATIO = 16:9 🔍 OUTPUT QUALITY = Highest supported quality
**Customization rules:**

- Change the text after =; keep the setting names intact.
- Replace the example titles with your own exact wording.
- Choose a camera or another object only when it suits the thumbnail concept.
- If you choose the left or right hand, the AI must still determine the correct strap path from the camera's actual attachment points and how it is worn.
- Use Not applicable for camera-related settings when no camera is needed.
- The two uploaded images must always remain in the specified order.
- These settings guide the image generation but cannot guarantee that every AI tool will reproduce every detail perfectly.

1\. STRICT TWO-IMAGE REFERENCE ORDER
**IMAGE 1 — ORIGINAL BACKGROUND**
The first uploaded image is the actual background reference. Use this image as the foundation of the final thumbnail.
Preserve its original location, scenery, major objects, buildings, landscape, and recognizable composition. Enhance it professionally without replacing it with an unrelated AI-generated location.
**IMAGE 2 — PERSON AND IDENTITY REFERENCE**
The second uploaded image contains the person whose original face and identity must be preserved.
Use this person in the final thumbnail. The body pose, arms, hands, gaze, expression, and presentation may be reconstructed when necessary to suit the customized thumbnail settings.
Never reverse the two images. Do not ignore either reference.
2\. ABSOLUTE ORIGINAL FACE AND IDENTITY LOCK
**The person's original facial identity is the highest-priority requirement.**
Preserve the face from IMAGE 2 as faithfully as possible, including:

- Original facial structure and face shape.
- Eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, and jawline.
- Original skin tone and natural skin texture.
- Apparent age and recognizable facial characteristics.
- Hairstyle, hairline, and facial hair, if present.
- Natural facial proportions and individual identity.

Do not replace the person with a similar-looking individual. Do not generate a new face, redesign facial features, change the apparent age, reshape the face, or apply artificial beautification.
Do not widen, slim, lengthen, shorten, or otherwise alter the face. Avoid plastic-looking skin, excessive smoothing, beauty filters, and invented facial details.
Improve facial clarity and lighting without changing the person's identity.
**Face versus pose:** Preserving the original face does not mean preserving the entire original photograph or pose. Keep the face recognizable while adapting the body posture, arms, hands, gaze, and presentation.
If pose reconstruction conflicts with facial identity, prioritize facial identity and realistic anatomy.
3\. ACTIVE POSE RECOMPOSITION
Do not blindly copy an unsuitable original pose from IMAGE 2.
Analyze the original pose and the customized thumbnail topic. When necessary, meaningfully adapt:

- Body orientation and torso angle.
- Shoulder position and head angle.
- Eye direction and gaze.
- Arm and hand positions.
- Upper-body posture.
- Subtle, realistic facial expression.
- Person's position and orientation within the frame.

If the original pose does not suit the thumbnail, create a more appropriate pose rather than simply repositioning the unchanged photograph.
If the original pose already fits, preserve it.
Handheld object removal
Inspect any objects in the person's hands.
If an object is unrelated to the thumbnail, remove it when appropriate and naturally reconstruct the hands, fingers, clothing, and affected body areas. Keep relevant objects and integrate them realistically.
Never leave ghosted objects, duplicated hands, incomplete fingers, broken wrists, unnatural arm positions, or visible remnants of the original photograph.
Follow the customized pose
Use the value in PERSON'S POSE as the main pose instruction.
Use GAZE & EXPRESSION to guide the person's attention and emotional presentation. Keep the expression subtle and believable, and never change the person's recognizable facial identity.
The person should look engaged with the environment, not stiff, expressionless, or disconnected from the scene.
4\. CAMERA, STRAP AND HAND ACCURACY
If a camera is present, ensure that the camera, hands, strap, shoulders, and body orientation form one physically plausible arrangement.
Correct camera grip

- Position the camera naturally in the selected hand.
- Reconstruct the fingers and thumb around the correct grip areas.
- Keep the camera body, lens, viewfinder, buttons, and proportions realistic.
- If photographing the scenery, orient the lens toward the intended subject.
- If presenting the camera to the viewer, orient it naturally toward the viewer.
- Keep the wrist, elbow, and shoulder aligned with the grip.

Correct camera strap direction and attachment
**The camera strap must be physically connected to the camera and follow a natural path around the person's neck, shoulder, or chest. It must never twist, cross incorrectly, emerge from the wrong side, or pass through the person's body.**
Determine the correct strap path using the camera's actual attachment points, selected holding hand, shoulder placement, camera angle, and torso orientation.

- If the camera is held in the right hand, arrange the camera and strap naturally for that grip and body position.
- If the camera is held in the left hand, reconstruct the arrangement according to that grip and the camera's attachment points.
- Do not automatically mirror or reverse the strap simply because the holding hand changes.
- Do not assume that one fixed strap direction is always correct for the right hand or left hand.
- When both strap ends are visible, connect them to the correct camera attachment points.
- If the strap passes over a shoulder or around the neck, it must follow a believable route and rest naturally against the clothing.
- Respect gravity, strap tension, camera weight, and body posture.
- Never let the strap pass through the neck, arm, hand, camera body, or clothing.
- Do not create extra straps, duplicated sections, disconnected ends, floating straps, impossible crossings, or twisted loops.
- If the original strap is incorrectly positioned for the new pose, reconstruct the visible strap path instead of retaining the original mistake.

Camera strap quality check
Trace the strap visually from one camera attachment point to the other. Confirm that its path is continuous, physically plausible, and free from impossible crossings or connections.
Check the strap from the viewer's perspective as well as the person's perspective.
If the strap cannot be reconstructed reliably, keep it minimally visible or naturally out of view rather than generating an obviously incorrect strap. Do not remove a necessary strap if doing so would make the camera look unsupported.
Apply the same physical-consistency rules to microphones, phones, bags, and other handheld accessories.
5\. NATURAL EXPRESSION WITHOUT CHANGING IDENTITY
Follow the customized GAZE & EXPRESSION setting.
Use subtle, believable expressions, such as a relaxed smile, confident travel-presenter look, interested gaze toward the destination, or focused expression while operating a camera.
Avoid exaggerated smiles, unnatural open mouths, distorted eyes, and dramatic expressions that change the person's recognizable appearance.
The face must remain consistent with IMAGE 2 even when the body posture or gaze direction changes.
6\. SMART BACKGROUND PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT
Use IMAGE 1 as the actual background. Preserve its location, scenery, layout, major objects, buildings, landscape, and recognizable details.
Analyze the background's lighting, weather, colors, atmosphere, and composition before editing. Never replace it with an invented or unrelated scene.
Follow the customized BACKGROUND ENHANCEMENT setting.
Apply scene-appropriate enhancements:

- **Beach or ocean:** Refine natural ocean colors, shoreline details, exposure, atmospheric depth, and existing sunlight while retaining the original beach.
- **Mountains or countryside:** Enhance natural greens, landscape clarity, distant depth, and balanced lighting without inventing new scenery.
- **City or landmark:** Improve architectural clarity, contrast, exposure, and depth while preserving the original buildings.
- **Indoor environment:** Balance exposure and illumination, reduce distracting noise, and preserve the original room and objects.
- **Night scene:** Improve visibility, control highlights, reduce noise, and refine existing lights without excessive artificial glow.
- **Other environments:** Determine suitable enhancements from the actual background rather than applying a generic effect.

Use restrained color grading, natural contrast, realistic lighting, and subtle atmospheric depth.
The background must look professionally edited, not heavily filtered or artificially regenerated.
7\. SUBTLE BACKGROUND BLUR AND DEPTH
Follow the customized BACKGROUND BLUR setting.
Add a mild, realistic depth-of-field effect only when it improves the thumbnail. Keep the main background recognizable and clear.
Slightly soften distant or less important areas when appropriate while preserving important scenery, landmarks, and location details.
Do not blur excessively or apply a strong portrait-mode effect that makes the environment look artificial.
Detailed scenic backgrounds may need very little blur. Busy backgrounds can benefit from slightly more.
8\. SEAMLESS PERSON-BACKGROUND INTEGRATION
Make the person appear as if they were photographed naturally at the location shown in IMAGE 1.

- Remove the unrelated background from IMAGE 2 when necessary.
- Match the person's scale and perspective to the environment.
- Match lighting direction, color temperature, and exposure.
- Apply realistic shadows and environmental light where appropriate.
- Blend hair, clothing, and body edges cleanly.
- Maintain natural skin tones and realistic clothing details.
- Match sharpness and color grading to the scene.
- Keep the person clearly visible without unnatural brightness or artificial outlines.
- Use subtle depth separation so the person is prominent but does not look pasted on.

Handheld objects, camera straps, fingers, and clothing must also match the scene's lighting and perspective.
Do not alter the original background to accommodate a poorly integrated cutout. Adjust the person's placement, scale, pose, and lighting to fit the actual environment.
The final result must look like one coherent photograph with consistent lighting, perspective, and atmosphere.
9\. PROFESSIONAL FACE CLARITY AND IMAGE QUALITY
Improve the person's visible image quality without changing their original appearance.
Enhance facial clarity, natural skin texture, hair detail, clothing texture, and overall sharpness. Reduce excessive blur, compression artifacts, and distracting noise.
Do not invent unsupported facial details. Avoid oversharpening, artificial smoothing, halos, distorted features, and plastic-looking textures.
Keep the face clear and recognizable on a mobile screen.
10\. PROFESSIONAL THUMBNAIL COMPOSITION AND TYPOGRAPHY
Follow the customized PERSON PLACEMENT and THUMBNAIL STYLE settings.
Create a balanced, professional thumbnail. Place the person in the selected position when the background and pose allow it. Adapt the composition when necessary to preserve important scenery and maintain readable text.
Leave sufficient negative space for the title.
Display the main title exactly as specified in MAIN TITLE.
For the default title, use:
BEAUTIFUL BANGLADESH
Use oversized, bold, professional travel-thumbnail typography. Make “BEAUTIFUL” white and “BANGLADESH” bright yellow, with a clean dark outline and subtle shadows.
Display the secondary text exactly as specified in SECONDARY TEXT.
For the default subtitle, use:
A DAY IN COX'S BAZAR
Place it beneath the main title in smaller but clearly readable typography.
Keep text away from the person's face, camera, hands, and important background details. Ensure correct spelling and readability on mobile screens.
Do not add extra captions, logos, watermarks, or fake branding unless explicitly requested.
If a customized title is long, arrange it into balanced lines without changing its wording. Do not invent additional text.
11\. HIGH-RESOLUTION OUTPUT
Follow the customized ASPECT RATIO and OUTPUT QUALITY settings, subject to the image-generation tool's actual capabilities.
For a standard YouTube thumbnail, use a 16:9 aspect ratio and target 1280 × 720 pixels.
Generate the highest quality supported by the tool. Preserve realistic textures, facial detail, clean edges, and balanced colors.
If genuine 8K generation or upscaling is supported, use it. Otherwise, produce the highest available resolution without claiming that the image is genuinely 8K.
Prioritize realistic details and professional clarity over excessive sharpening or artificial texture generation.
12\. FINAL QUALITY CONTROL
Before producing the final thumbnail, verify the following:

1. IMAGE 1 remains the recognizable original background.
2. IMAGE 2 supplies the same recognizable person.
3. The original face, facial structure, skin tone, and apparent age remain consistent.
4. The pose is meaningfully adapted when the original does not suit the thumbnail.
5. Unrelated handheld objects are removed when appropriate, with natural reconstruction.
6. Gaze, expression, posture, and body language suit the customized thumbnail topic.
7. If a camera is present, its grip, lens direction, strap attachment points, strap path, and orientation are physically plausible.
8. The camera strap does not cross unnaturally, pass through the body, or connect to the wrong attachment point.
9. The background enhancement and blur are subtle, realistic, and appropriate.
10. Lighting, shadows, perspective, sharpness, and colors blend naturally.
11. The customized title and subtitle are correctly spelled and readable.
12. The composition follows the selected person placement and thumbnail style.
13. The final thumbnail looks professionally edited, realistic, and visually cohesive.

**FINAL PRIORITY:** Preserve the person's original face and identity while adapting the pose, hands, gaze, and expression. Preserve and subtly enhance the actual uploaded background. Ensure every handheld object — especially the camera and its strap — is anatomically and physically consistent.
The final result must look like one professionally photographed scene, not an unchanged person cutout pasted onto another image.