- In this video, I'm gonna show you
exactly how to make a YouTube thumbnail
on your iPhone or you iPad step-by-step,
using the best iPhone thumbnail app right now.
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- Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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So let's jump into it.
Now iPhones are an awesome mobile video creation device,
and with the right apps, you can easily create
your YouTube thumbnails on your iPad
or on your iPhone as well.
Meaning now, you can shoot, you can edit,
you can upload and release your YouTube videos
all without leaving your iOS device,
which is pretty amazing.
So right now, we're gonna show you
exactly how to do it on your iOS device
and we're also gonna show you
the best app to get it done quick and easy.
And once we're done, I'm gonna hook you up
with our free step-by-step guide
that you can download to level up your iPhone video game
next time you're shooting as well.
But enough of that.
Let's jump into the good stuff.
So first off, the apps.
Now, I've tested an absolute ton of them,
everything from Adobe Spark to Canva,
which is a really popular option,
to Phonto, to Thumbnail Maker.
There's a heap of them out there.
But our top pick, right now, goes to Phonto.
And that's not to say that you can't get great results
with any of the other apps we've mentioned
or really any of the other apps
that are available out there.
This was our pick based on ease of use,
based on features, and the results
that you can get in this app.
And before we jump into a walkthrough
showing you how easy Phonto is to use
and how you can use it
to create your thumbnail images, one quick tip.
If you're gonna create a thumbnail image
that has a photo of you in it,
and I would highly recommend that you plan that photo.
So at the end of filming your videos
or even before, it doesn't matter,
just strike a few poses.
Smile, point at stuff, do whatever you need to do,
but plan it out so that you're not trying to through
and scrub through your finished video
trying to find that perfect frame grab
where it looks like you're smiling
or not in the middle of talking.
Trust me.
This is an absolute game changer,
and it's so simple.
So at the end of filming,
I'll sit there and I'll point at stuff
and I'll hold my hands in different ways.
Feel like an idiot doing it, but trust me,
it is way easier to create your thumbnails
once you've got a few options
instead of trying to find it in your video.
Okay, so here we are in Phonto.
Now you can see that we've got an ad running at the top.
This is the free version or the ad version.
If you do wanna pay to remove that,
you can come down to the bottom left
to these three lines, the settings button.
Choose settings.
Scroll down to ad-free version.
And you can pay the $2.99 to remove that.
So we back out of this.
For this time, we use the free one.
So the first thing you wanna do
is just to tap and drag out an area on the screen here.
And then go down to plain image.
And you get to pick some of these different templates
and things that you've got here.
I would suggest that you start with a white canvas,
so pick the one on the top right hand corner.
And you can see in the top, we've got 2048 x 2048.
If we tap on that, then this is where we can
type in our custom image size
so it's the correct size for a YouTube thumbnail.
Come over to custom.
And in here, you wanna type in 1920 x 1080,
and then press done.
So once you've got that in there,
you just have to press in the top right hand corner
the share button and choose use and save.
Okay, so now we have our canvas here or our image area,
then we can start to make you do a thumbnail.
So the first thing we wanna do is
add in our background image.
So again, we'll click on the three buttons
in the bottom left hand corner
and choose add image and pick our thumbnail image here.
Now you can actually customize this up
and put it into circles and different shapes and things
down in the bottom here.
Alright, we'll go back to stock standard
as we don't wanna do any cropping or anything here yet.
So I'll press done.
So this is our background image there.
If we tap on it, we can move it around.
If we want to make it bigger,
we can tap on it and choose size.
And we can drag that slider up to make it bigger
and reposition that around so it fits on our canvas there.
Okay, so now that that's in, we can add in some text.
So if you tap anywhere on the screen,
we get add text so we hit on that
and we can start typing in our video titles.
So once you have that typed in,
you can also change your fonts
down the bottom here, by pressing font.
And we can go through and pick our font.
Our font is actually Oswald Bold
but you can see there's a heap of other ones in here.
So we'll leave it as Oswald.
You can also add in symbols and things as well.
And emojis.
All sorts of stuff.
Hit close for that one.
We'll hit done here.
And we can drag that onto our thumbnail.
How to edit.
Now under style, we can also add in a background.
So if we come over to background,
you can either pick one of the pre-selected colors here.
You can create your own color by using the sliders here
or if you come up to this Settings button here
on the color panel then you can key in your hex code
or your RGB numbers.
255, 255, 255, et cetera.
So we'll cancel out of that.
We'll just pick something close to our Primal Video colors.
Probably something like this one and press done.
The next thing we usually do is just to tilt this
a little bit or rotate it a little bit
so we hit on tilt.
And we can adjust the rotation using
the plus and minus button on here.
How to edit.
You've also got more options
if you slide across here on the bottom.
Then you've got some other options in here too.
So that's looking pretty good.
We'll just tap off that.
So we'll finish off our text by creating another text box.
We'll just tap on the bottom of the screen here
and add text.
And again, you can check your font.
You can actually save presets in here too
so if there's text that you're going to use the same,
maybe Primal Video or whatever your YouTube channel name is,
if you want that on each one of your thumbnails
you can save them in there as presets.
And we'll choose done.
Which is here, videos faster.
We'll style that up by hitting style.
We'll come across to background
and for this one we'll choose a dark gray.
And press done.
Once again, we will rotate this a little bit.
And probably move it up a bit.
Now you can also add in other shapes
and graphic elements in here as well.
So if we come down here to those three lines again,
let's choose add item.
And you see we've got a heap of different shapes and things.
Let's pick the square.
Let's scale this up.
So we'll tap on that, choose size.
Let's make it huge.
Let's tap off that, tap on it again.
Let's choose tilt.
We can rotate it a little bit.
Maybe something like that.
You can position it over here.
We can tap on it again and change color.
Now in color you also get alpha,
which is the transparency.
So we can lower that down.
So you can start to see what's going on behind it.
Before we do that, maybe we'll make it white first
and then drop that a little bit and hit done.
You can see that semi-transparent.
You can still see what's going on behind it.
Let's move it over to the side a bit here.
Just to break up that edge of the thumbnail
and now we can also add in things like logos
or anything else that's going to help you
with your thumbnail, help your viewers know
what's in your video.
So as we're talking about video editing
and editing faster, we might add in something
like the Adobe Premiere logo.
So we'd hit those three lines again.
Add image.
And we can bring in the Adobe Premiere logo
by selecting that.
Now press done, top right hand corner.
That's in there as well.
So we can again, move that around.
We can tap on that, we can adjust the size.
Make it a bit smaller and we can reposition that
and move it around anywhere we'd like.
Now really this is a creative process,
you could do whatever you'd like here
to make this thumbnail match your brand
but I strongly advise to make your thumbnails consistent
across all of your videos.
So we can just play around with these things
until we get them exactly how you like them.
So maybe you like this.
So it's not transparent.
How to edit faster, we can maybe move
the Adobe Premiere logo around a little bit.
Maybe make it a little bit smaller.
So you can see with just some really minor tweaks,
you can see that we can totally change
how this thumbnail image looks.
Once you're done, all you need to do is save this out.
So press the Save button in the bottom right-hand corner.
And choose save image.
Now your thumbnail image is saved into your photo gallery
where you can upload it on to your YouTube videos.
Okay, so now that you've got your awesome looking thumbnail,
let's make sure that you're getting the best results
out of that iPhone camera next time you're filming.
Linked on screen now is a video
running through our top tips for filming with an iPhone
and a link to a free download PDF guide
that you can use while you're filming
to help you get amazing results with your iPhone.
So you can grab a copy and follow along with the guide
next time you're shooting.
And I'll see you next time.