{"id":524,"date":"2026-08-06T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/reels-cover-that-stops-the-scroll\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:29:52","slug":"reels-cover-that-stops-the-scroll","status":"publish","type":"prompt","link":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/reels-cover-that-stops-the-scroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Reels Cover That Stops the Scroll and Earns Views"},"featured_media":525,"template":"","meta":{"_titulo_seo":"How to make a Reels cover that grips: an AI prompt","_prompt_text":"Scroll-stopping Reels\/TikTok cover thumbnail, high-CTR YouTube-style design.\n\nScene: a person (waist-up) with an exaggerated, genuine emotional expression \u2014 wide eyes and open-mouth surprise, or skeptical raised eyebrow \u2014 pointing at or holding the subject of the video, positioned on one side of the frame.\n\nText: large bold headline text (3-6 words, provided by the user) on the opposite side, thick sans-serif font with strong contrast \u2014 white text with black outline or solid color blocks behind, readable even at thumbnail size.\n\nDetails:\n- Background: bright saturated solid color or slightly blurred context scene, high contrast with the person\n- Person: sharp, well-lit face (ring light look), colors popping, slight HDR feel\n- Optional elements: bold arrow, circle highlight, or emoji-style graphic pointing at the key object\n- Style: energetic, curiosity-driven, professional creator thumbnail, ultra sharp\n\nComposition: vertical 3:4, face occupying one third, text occupying another third, visual hierarchy: face \u2192 text \u2192 object.","_como_usar":"The Reels cover that stops the scroll creates the professional-creator thumbnail, with an expressive face, huge text and an arrow, to hold the thumb in the feed, and it works in ChatGPT, in Gemini and in Claude.\nOpen the AI you chose and paste the full prompt into the conversation.\nPut your own cover text in place of the example, with the video title in three to six words.\nSend your photo along with the prompt if you want the cover to use your face with an exaggerated expression.\nChoose the emotion on the face \u2014 surprised, sceptical or excited \u2014 according to the promise of the video.\nGenerate the image and test the legibility at thumbnail size, because the cover has to work small in the feed.\nRepeat, varying the expression and the background colour, to compare which one draws the most attention.\nFinal tip: the cover is the biggest lever on Reels views and almost nobody optimises it, so it is well worth testing a lot.","_views":71,"_likes":5,"_nota_sum":25,"_nota_count":5,"_nota_avg":5,"_nota_weight":3.8908,"_i18n_grupo":187},"macro":[2],"subcategoria":[7],"prompt_tag":[260,681,682],"ferramenta":[13,15,16],"class_list":["post-524","prompt","type-prompt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","macro-image","subcategoria-photography","prompt_tag-reels","prompt_tag-thumbnail","prompt_tag-tiktok","ferramenta-chatgpt","ferramenta-gemini","ferramenta-nanobanana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prompt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"macro","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/macro?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"subcategoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subcategoria?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"prompt_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt_tag?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"ferramenta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ferramenta?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}