Cookbook
Ready-to-run examples for common thumbnail and social card formats. Each recipe uses real quickthumb code you can copy, adapt, and run locally.
Gallery
| YouTube Thumbnail | Burnout Theme | Instagram News Card |
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| Talking Head | Reaction / Commentary | Tutorial / Explainer |
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| Podcast Promo | Shorts / Vertical Cover | Launch Announcement |
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Recipes
| Recipe | Format | Highlights |
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| YouTube Thumbnails | 1280×720 | Three layouts: text-only, burnout theme, talking-head split |
| Instagram Card | 1080×1080 | Breaking news card with gradient overlay and rich text |
| Podcast Promo | 1280×720 | Remote images, webfont URL, portrait cutout with rembg |
| Shorts / Vertical Cover | 1080×1920 | JSON-first workflow driven by an AI-generated spec |
| Launch Announcement | 1280×720 | Auto-layout groups, theme tokens, star shapes, SVG layers, grain, diagnostics |
| AI Workflow | Any | End-to-end: prompt → JSON → render → iterate |
| Webfonts & Background Removal | Any | Webfont URLs and remove_background walkthrough |
Prerequisites
All recipes assume quickthumb is installed:
Some recipes use remove_background=True and require the rembg extra:
The rembg extra requires Python 3.11 or later.
Asset paths
The code snippets below use placeholder paths like "background.jpg" and "portrait.png". Swap these for your own local files or remote URLs — quickthumb accepts both.