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title: ToolRouter — Workflow
description: A multi-tool workflow showing how to combine ToolRouter tools for a complex task.
url: https://toolrouter.com/workflows/thumbnail-and-preview-factory
---
# Thumbnail and Preview Factory

Mass-produce optimized thumbnails and preview images with AI generation, web captures, and automated formatting.

Streamline the creation of thumbnails and preview images at scale. Generate compelling base images using AI, capture web page screenshots for Open Graph previews, and automatically format everything to platform-specific dimensions.

This workflow handles the tedious process of creating multiple image sizes and formats for YouTube thumbnails, social media cards, blog post headers, and Open Graph tags. Save hours of manual image editing per content piece.

**Tools:** generate-image, web-screenshot, image-ops
**Category:** media

## Steps

### 1. Generate Base Images

Create eye-catching base images for thumbnails and social media previews.

- **Tool:** generate-image
- **Skill:** text_to_image
- **Input:** Image concept descriptions and style preferences
- **Output:** AI-generated base images

### 2. Capture Page Previews

Take screenshots of web pages to use as Open Graph and social sharing preview images.

- **Tool:** web-screenshot
- **Skill:** capture
- **Input:** Web page URLs to capture
- **Output:** Page preview screenshots

### 3. Optimize and Format Images

Resize, crop, and optimize images for platform-specific thumbnail and preview requirements.

- **Tool:** image-ops
- **Skill:** transform_image
- **Input:** Source images and target dimensions per platform
- **Output:** Optimized images in multiple formats and sizes

## Benefits

- Batch-produce thumbnails for all platforms at once
- AI-generated images eliminate stock photo costs
- Automatic resizing for platform-specific requirements
