Thumbnail HELP!

[Lizzeelive]

I want to learn to make better, more clickable thumbnails that still tell exactly what my video is about. Can anyone tell me how you make thumbnails? In detail? I really want to learn to do it myself.

 

[RedFox]

Hi, I've moved this to the Branding and Design forum.

 

[Lizzeelive]

Hi, I've moved this to the Branding and Design forum.

Okay! I'll keep that in mind in case I ever post something like this again!

 

[Yvelinaa]

The thumbnails in your channel look fine (that's my opinion)

 

[Lizzeelive]

The thumbnails in your channel look fine (that's my opinion)

Well, thank you!

 

[VansonEverything]

What I do is take a snapshot of a funny/ entertaining moment of gameplay and with a funny face from my facecam footage in the corner while I'm editing my footage then I take the picture to paint ( Just a basic editor on most computers I think ) and add a quote of something I said or something funny along with the game title and/or part of the game I'm on.

 

[Lizzeelive]

What I do is take a snapshot of a funny/ entertaining moment of gameplay and with a funny face from my facecam footage in the corner while I'm editing my footage then I take the picture to paint ( Just a basic editor on most computers I think ) and add a quote of something I said or something funny along with the game title and/or part of the game I'm on.

Thank you!

 

[newage]

I use Adobe Fireworks. I have a file called thumbnail.fw.png which has multiple layers of images. I replace certain layers with other images. Like the very center image is usually the product I am going to review.

I either take a photo of the product, or find a nice high res transparent png image of the product. Then I import the image for the center, add a glow or drop shadow effect to it, change the descriptive thumbnail text and export as a lower quality .jpg so YouTube doesn't complain about the file size being too big.

My thumbnail template is 1920x1080 to get the perfect resolution size.

 

[Yvelinaa]

My thumbnail template is 1920x1080 to get the perfect resolution size.

Is 1920x1080 really the appropiate thumbnail size.... For such a small image icon, really? if it is.... Then I've got some brushing up to do

 

[newage]

@Yvelinaa Helps to keep the image sharp when downsizing it. Maybe you can do a smaller size, whatever works for you.