Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
If you fancy yourself as being the next tech YouTuber waiting in the wings to explode onto the scene, you might want to pause for a moment and reflect on the amount of time you'll need to spend generating all those rage-baiting thumbnail images of your face to add to your content. But fear not, as there's now an AI tool that'll handle all your gurning goals for you.
The tool in question is called Expresso because…umm, I'm not sure why, to be honest, but it's by EasyStudio AI which also offers an AI for editing and tweaking photos. I should imagine that there was a meeting of managers, at some point, that wondered what else its servers could be used for and they all settled on creating something to make custom headshots.
Although the tool's interface isn't overly intuitive, it is simple to use—just upload a headshot photo or image, and then select a preset for a particular expression you want the face to have. You can adjust the positions of the head, eyes, eyebrows and mouth to get that perfect 'smile that never reaches the eyes' or 'ermahgerd it's so bad' look that's pretty much the norm on every YouTube thumbnail these days.
Being the inquisitive and top investigative journalist that I am, I signed up for a free account (which gives you three goes at generating an image, in the form of credits) and set about seeing just what AI could do for me. Before we get on to how insufficient three credits are at road testing something that would otherwise cost $10 a month for 100 credits, let's see what I managed to create.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! It's almost as if Percy Shelley was a 19th-century AI prophet, rather than some genteel British poet. Anyway, I have to say that Expresso somewhat lives up to its name, simply because it spits out an image very quickly, though I dare say that if it becomes super popular and the servers clog up with requests, it might not be quite so speedy.
However, my issue with it is that there's no kind of preview system and
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