HELP: Viral Thumbnail Resources

[vinhson]

I saw some old post on thumnails, but they are different from what i am look for. I want element PNGs: like strokes, lines, neon light rays, sunbust, explosion cartoon shapes, idea bulb, speech blurbs - thing one can be use to compose with hand in photoshop the old fashion way. Is there some resource collected?

[BlueHacker]

Thumbnail elements, the old-school way — the packs, then the tools that build them

packs ▸ generators ▸ cut-outs ▸ 1280×720

What a complete element kit holds

• arrows and pointer strokes
• sunburst and radial rays
• neon rays, flares and glow rings
• comic explosions and POW bursts
• halftone dots and screentones
• speed and focus lines
• speech blurbs, badges, price tags
• sticker outline and drop shadow

CC0 packs — download, composite, no attribution

Pack	What is inside
Kenney Light Masks	150+ light cookies, rays and flares, white-on-transparent
Kenney Particle Pack	80 sprites: sparks, smoke, fire, electric, light cookies
OpenGameArt Sunbursts / 2D Rays	ready sunburst and ray PNGs
OpenGameArt Explosion sets	cartoon explosions, the M484 set, vector explosions
game-icons.net	70 explosion + 104 star and sun icons, direct PNG export, credit in a line
addspeechbubble.com	77 transparent bubble PNGs, shout, burst, thought, whisper, free for personal use
GitHub educational-video-shape-assets	2,048 transparent PNGs: arrows, UI actions, shapes
Handy Arrows	156 hand-drawn arrows, SVG and PNG
WebEmoji	1,915 emoji PNGs, Apple and OpenMoji styles
Krita Mojo Moo presets	halftones, screentones, manga speed lines

kenney.nl/assets/light-masks
opengameart.org/content/sunbursts-2d-rays
game-icons.net/tags/explosion.html
addspeechbubble.com/speech-bubble-png
github.com/stubborn-1508/educational-video-shape-assets
github.com/ink-cow/presets/releases
spikerman.itch.io/godrays

Generators — make the element yourself in half a minute

Tool	Element
UhiyamaLab Effect Line Maker	speed and focus lines, transparent PNG, free for commercial
ImageMagick STARBURST	rays and starburst, any count, colour and glow
Haikei	rays, blobs, waves, PNG out, no signup
siutil halftone	halftone dots from any image, in-browser
Photopea	free Photoshop in the browser, opens PSD, runs scripts
rembg	offline background removal, whole folders at once

uhiyama-lab.com/en/tools/effect-line-maker
fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/starburst
haikei.app
siutil.com/halftone
photopea.com
github.com/danielgatis/rembg

One command strips every background in a folder:

pip install rembg && rembg p ./in ./out

✂️ The cut-out and sticker pipeline

1. Shoot the reaction on a plain wall — never a blurry video frame
2. Cut it out: Pixelcut, Adobe Express, Photopea Remove BG, or rembg offline
3. Refine hair and edges, then hand-clean fingers and ears at 100 percent zoom
4. Export a transparent PNG and check the checkerboard is real
5. In Photopea or Photoshop: Stroke 3-5 px white outside, Drop Shadow small, Outer Glow optional
6. Grade the subject up in saturation and contrast, blur and darken the plate behind it

📐 Sizes that survive the phone

• Canvas 1280x720, 16:9
• Design for the 168x94 px mobile render — the 20 percent shrink test
• Text 3-5 words, cap-height 120 px or more, bold sans only
• Keep text and faces out of the bottom-right duration corner and the outer 15-20 percent
• Keep the file between 200 KB and 1 MB, PNG for text, JPG 80-85 for photos

The words that make your searches work

• marker circle — isolates one detail, eyes fixate inside it
• sticker outline — the 3-5 px edge that lifts a cut-out off the plate
• rim light — edge light that pushes the subject forward
• focus lines — the manga name for speed lines
• halftone — the dot texture behind text
• emoji-bomb — the accent cluster, one or two maximum

One focal point, one arrow, one glow — the pack is the raw material, the restraint is the skill.

[vinhson]

Than for reply. I had computer problem so not check message.