# Pikzels: A YouTube Thumbnail and Title for a How-To Video for Marketing

> A small accounting firm records a how-to video so clients stop emailing tax documents, but nobody clicks it. Describe the video in Pikzels, pick one of…

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You do every step yourself in a practice copy of Pikzels. It checks your work as you go, and “Do it for me” finishes any step you get stuck on. Free, about 6 minutes, and nothing touches your real accounts. [Open full screen](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/pikzels-youtube-thumbnail-title)

Free · Live now · [AI Automation for Marketing](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/industry/marketing) · Pikzels · ~6 min · 15 steps · Beginner

Updated October 28, 2026. Built against the tool’s current screens and checked step by step. [How we check this lesson](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/about#how-we-check)

A small accounting firm records a how-to video so clients stop emailing tax documents, but nobody clicks it. Describe the video in Pikzels, pick one of three titles, turn it into scored thumbnails, fix the weak spots in one click and edit one corner.

## At a glance

| Question | Answer |
| --- | --- |
| What you build | A small accounting firm records a how-to video so clients stop emailing tax documents, but nobody clicks it. Describe the video in Pikzels, pick one of three titles, turn it into scored thumbnails, fix the weak spots in one click and edit one corner. |
| Tools | Pikzels |
| Time | About 6 minutes, 15 steps in 3 parts |
| Level | Beginner, no coding needed |
| Cost | Free |
| Ways to learn it | [Practice it step by step](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/pikzels-youtube-thumbnail-title) |

### The 3 parts, in short

1. Get a title: Open Title, Describe the video, Generate titles, Pick the title, and 1 more step.
2. Turn it into thumbnails: Generate, Wait for both.
3. Score and fix it: Open the score, Read why, One-Click Fix, Read the fix, and 4 more steps.

**Start here first:** [Build an n8n AI Agent That Plans Your Content Calendar](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-ai-agent-content-calendar) (module 1 of AI Automation for Marketing)

**Part of:** [AI for Marketing Teams](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/paths/ai-for-marketing) (step 37 of 40). Next up: [Turn One Product Photo into a 5-Second Video Ad using Higgsfield](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/higgsfield-product-photo-to-video-ad)

**Part of:** [AI Apps Worth Knowing](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/paths/partner-tools-ai-apps) (step 88 of 111). Next up: [Voicenotes: Turn a Client Meeting into Notes, To-dos and a Follow-up Email](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/voicenotes-client-meeting-notes)

## What you'll build

A made-up 10-person accounting firm is tired of clients emailing [receipts](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-receipt-extractor-n8n-google-sheets) and tax documents as attachments. It is a security risk, and staff spend hours saving and filing them. The firm recorded a short how-to video showing clients how to use the secure portal instead, but a plain title and a screenshot thumbnail get almost no clicks. In this lesson you describe the video in Pikzels, an AI tool for YouTube titles and thumbnails. It writes three titles, turns your pick into two thumbnails and scores each one out of 100. You open the score, let One-Click Fix clean it up, then box one corner and type a change so the thumbnail shows the answer too. Every screen is a real Pikzels screen.

You described the video in one sentence, got three titles, turned "Stop Emailing Receipts to Your Accountant" into two thumbnails, read the score, raised it from 71 to 82 with One-Click Fix, and added the answer (a phone that says UPLOADED) by boxing one corner, for 85. The whole run took about five minutes and 43 [credits](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-credits), instead of an hour in a design tool. Before you post, check that the image fits your firm: Pikzels makes bold YouTube-style faces, and you can ask for a calmer one in the same chat.

- Tools: Pikzels
- Time: about 6 minutes, 15 steps in 3 chapters
- Level: beginner, no coding needed
- Price: free

## Practice first, then build it for real

Practice copy built from real Pikzels screens (app.pikzels.com), captured 28 October 2026. Nothing here touches a Pikzels account. The firm is made up; the titles, thumbnails, scores and edits are what Pikzels produced. Your own titles and images will differ, because the AI writes new ones every time. To build it for real you need your own Pikzels account, and some services charge once you use them for real work, so check each tool's current pricing.

## Try it yourself, free

Reading the steps is a start. Doing them is how it sticks. The interactive module walks you through every click in a practice copy of Pikzels, checks each step, and never touches your real accounts.

[Start “Pikzels: A YouTube Thumbnail and Title for a How-To Video for Marketing”](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/pikzels-youtube-thumbnail-title)

## Step by step: Pikzels: A YouTube Thumbnail and Title for a How-To Video for Marketing

All 15 steps of the interactive module, in order. In the module you watch each one, then do it yourself in a practice copy that checks your work.

### 1. Get a title

1. **Open Title.** Pikzels opens on **Get Started** with five workflows: **Recreate**, **Prompt**, **Analyze**, **Edit** and **Title**. Start with the title, because the thumbnail should match it. Click **Title**.
   Pikzels has five workflows. Start with the title, because the thumbnail should match it.
2. **Describe the video.** Describe the video in one sentence: who made it, what the viewer learns, and the problem it solves. Name the old habit you want people to stop (emailing documents).
   Describe the video in one sentence. Who made it, what viewers learn, and the habit you want them to stop.
   ```text
   How-to video from a small accounting firm: how clients upload receipts and tax documents to our secure client portal instead of emailing them
   ```
3. **Generate titles.** Click **Generate**. The **3x** next to it means three title ideas, at 1 credit each.
   You get three title ideas.
4. **Pick the title.** A few seconds later you have three titles: **Upload Tax Documents to Our Client Portal**, **Stop Emailing Receipts to Your Accountant** and **Send Tax Documents Securely Step by Step**. The first says what the firm wants; the second talks to the client's own habit, so it is the one people click. Point at **Stop Emailing Receipts to Your Accountant**. (Yours will be worded differently; pick the one that names the viewer's problem.)
   Three titles. Pick the one that talks to the client's own habit: Stop Emailing Receipts to Your Accountant.
5. **Generate Thumbnails.** Each title has three buttons: copy, use, and **Generate Thumbnails** (the sparkle). Click the sparkle on that row.
   It turns the title into thumbnails.

### 2. Turn it into thumbnails

6. **Generate.** **Generate Thumbnails** shows your title. **Personas** (your own face) and **Styles** are optional; leave them off for a first try. **2x** means two thumbnails. Click **Generate**.
   Leave personas and styles off for now. Two thumbnails.
7. **Wait for both.** Both thumbnails build side by side with a progress bar, in about a minute. Two thumbnails used 20 credits. Click either card when they are ready.
   Both thumbnails build side by side. It takes about a minute.

### 3. Score and fix it

8. **Open the score.** Each thumbnail gets a score out of 100 in the corner: **69** and **71**. Both show a stressed office worker buried in receipts under a big red **STOP**. Click the **71** on the second one.
   Each thumbnail gets a score out of a hundred.
9. **Read why.** The score breaks down into **Virality**, **Clarity**, **Idea**, **Curiosity** and **Emotion**, each with a tip. Click **Clarity**.
   The score breaks into five parts, each with a tip.
10. **One-Click Fix.** The tip is specific: simplify the tiny inbox text on the monitor and remove the mug and label clutter, so viewers on a phone see the face and the alert. Instead of doing that by hand, click **One-Click Fix**.
    The tip says the small text is clutter on a phone.
11. **Read the fix.** Pikzels writes the fix out as an edit request (enlarge **STOP**, remove the micro-text, blur the background) and rebuilds the thumbnail. It costs 10 credits. Click the new thumbnail when it appears.
    Pikzels writes the fix as an edit and rebuilds the thumbnail.
12. **Open Edit.** The score went from **71** to **82**: the monitor now just says **STOP**. But the thumbnail only shows the problem. Add the answer too. Click **Edit** (the pencil) under the thumbnail.
    Seventy-one became eighty-two. Now add the answer, not just the problem.
13. **Box one corner.** **Edit Thumbnail** asks you to select the area to change. With the box tool, drag a box over the coffee mug in the bottom left. Then type the change in plain English: **Replace the coffee mug with a smartphone showing a big green checkmark and the word UPLOADED**. Click the boxed area.
14. **Generate the edit.** Click **Generate**. Only the boxed corner changes, for 10 credits.
    Only that corner changes.
15. **Check it, then stop.** The mug is now a phone with a green check and **UPLOADED**, and the score went up to **85**. The thumbnail now shows the problem and the fix at a glance. **Download** saves it for YouTube Studio. **This is where the lesson stops**: before you post, check the image fits your firm. Click **Download** to finish.
    The phone says uploaded, and the score is eighty-five. Check it fits your firm, then download it for YouTube.

## Screenshots

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## Terms in this lesson

Plain-English definitions, each with an example from a free lesson.

[Prompt](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/prompt) · [Client portal](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/client-portal) · [AI credits](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary/ai-credits)

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