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How To Turn One Thumbnail Into Five Different Social Posts
The Rundown In this guide, you will build a YouTube thumbnail from scratch in Canva, then use the AI resize feature to instantly duplicate it into every social media format with AI handling the layout for each size.
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Canva AI
Updated
Feb 17, 2026
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The Rundown
In this guide, you will build a YouTube thumbnail from scratch in Canva, then use the AI resize feature to instantly duplicate it into every social media format with AI handling the layout for each size.
Who This Is Useful For
- Content creators who post across multiple platforms and spend way too long manually resizing the same graphic for each one
- Marketing teams managing brand presence on 5+ social channels who need every post formatted correctly
- Freelancers and agencies who deliver assets to clients in multiple formats and want to stop billing hours for resize work