Hello and welcome to the computer lab Vids YouTube channel and in this
video I will be showing you how to create a thumbnail at the size of 1280
by 720 using a free program called paint 3D which is built in to Windows 10
so down into the Windows key look through your programs looking for P because the programs
are in alphabetical order so where are we, here find Paint 3D
is what we need to open if you want to just search for it you can just type in
your search box and in the bottom so just type paint it's not the standard
paint which is this one it is paint 3D which we're looking for, click on paint
3D it will open it up straight away you're presented with this welcome
screen we need to do a new project, okay so I like to have the looking on these
top menus here unless you hover over you can't see what they are - if you go to the
little three dots and the top right hand corner and click on these and then it
will put the different names underneath each of these items that we need to use
in a second. So the first thing and then we need to do to
set our canvas size it make sure that we're all good on the dimensions that
YouTube recommends the YouTube recommends a size of 1280 by 720 we are
going to go for that size you can actually double a if you're looking to
do HD thumbnails so to keep those same proportions you want to go for 2560 by
1440 if you want to go a higher resolution and that can be resized
so it's proportionally correct but we'll go with the 1280 by 720 so over to top
menu click on canvas right hand side it's got resize canvas just click the
unlock so that un-fixes these for a second so the width and the height do not keep
proportionally correct until we've changed them, then we can lock it back up. Now make sure that
it's on pixels in this box here your yours might be set to percent we need
pixels and then make sure your locks unlocked type in at 1280 and then 720 if
you don't have that already once you've got these dimensions in you'll see that
the canvas size changes to the size we want key and this locks these both in
position to the size that we want if I go for the 2560
now in this box here for the width you'll see that the height corrects to
1440 so it proportionally correct and that's how youtube expects it to be so
again I'll just change the width to the 1280 by 720 and you can have the canvas
on or off I like to have it on so can see what I'm working on or you've
got the transparent canvas which will just leave an outline so if I take this
toggle box here you'll see that were left with an outline of our work area
leave that on so you see what what you are doing okay so that's our canvas
set so we're now got something to work on the next thing is to put an image or
a color on here I'll just quickly show you how to put this as a colour sort of a
primary color in the background so we go into the stickers section sorry we go
into the art tools cause doing this as a primary color first now you've seen the
art tools we've got pens and brushes so if we want to do a spray of paint I will
just quickly go into these just this item here we're on the spray paint icon there I pick the color in here so I pick the blue sprays selecting them I
can spray so if you are artistic you can maybe do something in here and design
your thumbnail and let it export that but I'm not very artistic and freehand
so I'm gonna just undo that I'm going to put a base color on so i am going to goto
the fill, pick the color I want and let's just go for a red so my paint can is
selected red is selected over to my canvas left click and it'll fill it with
a primary colour I've just had so then I can maybe place some text on the top of
here whatever you want to do - okay so I'm just going to undo them a second because
I'm just gonna show you how to put a picture on so I'll just push the Escape
key to come back out the menu select and then we're going to go into our stickers
section so I'm just avoiding the 3d one at the moment then go into stickers and then in
here I'm going to use the shapes in a minute I'm gonna use that to put our
text onto we have a sticker set section we've different ones that are supplied
by Microsoft so if I wanted a cloud on top of my red
background to select the cloud icon go over to here, push left click move a
cloud there this little icon to the right you stamp that in position so
we're going to stamp the cloud there go across up to this corner may be have another cloud there so you can do this as many times as you want
Obviously if this was my design I would do that so I stamped it
on and then push escape to come back out and maybe we want that one a ninja cat
in the middle so you have a Ninja and resize it in here and do all sorts of
bits and pieces and stamp that in push escape key to come back out so that
could be my thumbnail I'm just gonna go into a bit more detail also undo this
I've just done there I'm gonna undo the color as well and go back to the white
background so that's our stickers menu and we do have a textures pack this
works in the same way sort of a sticker so I'll select gravel over to the left
and if you start placing these in position and go full size
if I want so of a full gravel background or if I want small items I can push the
stamp key here it stamps it then push escape you'll see it's stamped in
position okay and then the last one is the file of our choice of custom sticker
so click on the custom sticker icon and then we're going to add a sticker so
click on the add sticker section so if you've got a picture that you're using
just pick up the scroll to the file that you need I've got one that I use quite a
lot on a few of my templates a few my thumbnails which is this desk template
here so I'm gonna pick that one and click open as soon as I click open and
you'll see that it puts it onto our image and I can drag it around and drag
and resize it so I'm gonna resize it to roughly what we need and maybe have it
in a slightly different position so I'm gonna go sort of like that slightly over
a bit less so there's a pixelate as much so I'm thinking yeah that looks good I'm
gonna stamp it in position with this little icon to the right click on that
one and then push the escape here to take me out of that menu you'll notice
as soon as I have done that it leaves this sticker in our custom stickers section. What I will say
is at this point if you do close paint to come out of it the stickers will
disappear doesn't save them in for you to come into next time only leave them
in their way you're working within this particular section and then you can
add another sticker by pushing on that plus sticker sign and if I go to my
pictures menu I'm going to add my logo in the corner so this is a gif
so it's transparent so I'll add that now so I've got my branding in and I've got
my background in my custom sticker and that's both done in the add sticker
section so I'm gonna go to the stickers again and across to the menu on the left
hand side go to shapes and then the square icon which is this one here and
then pick that one and then I don't know I'm just gonna do this freehand so I'm
gonna drag the box this is what some of my text is going to go so maybe I'll have
it there so you notice is just an outline box haven't done anything
haven't filled it yet so I have some options here I've got a line
I don't want a line so I want none and I'm going to fill it with maybe a
fluorescent yellow stamping in position and escape to come back out so that's
one of my first boxes I'm gonna some text in maybe I'll have another box so
again this is a design of your choice so I don't like that I'm gonna go
maybe have that one like that one stamp that in position and maybe have
that one a different maybe I should've done that one a different color so I'm going to
pick the shape again I get to where I want it change the color I think I'll go
for not white doesn't look really good go for a red. So there stamp it in position and then push
escape to get back out okay so now got my boxes in I'm going to put
some text in so that up to the text icon in the top pick that. There is a 3d text
in here I'm not going to go it today you can have a play around but you can design
3D text in here as well it's quite good just takes a bit of messing around
in getting the proportions right and the perspectives right where I'm going to
work with the 2D text just to give you sort of an idea what might
produce so then I'll pick the 2d text up Select the text type so
I'm gonna have this one. I'll see what it looks like first I'm
gonna change my leave the text is black so I've got 2d text that's my font
that's my size. Then make the size a little bit bigger and drag my text area
that I want and then whatever I'm doing in here put some text in there. You can't
really read the font but for this tutorial it's fine I think so just
resizing the text box then hovering on the lines I've got the move cursor and
I'm positioning where I want to and I think I am OK with that left
click to come off it and then I'm going to have a bit more text in here I think
I'll go for a white text in this bottom so I'm still on the text tool and it's
up to the 2d text on the right click on that and then we'll go for a nice
bold font underneath so I'll just looking for something a bit and what
about that magnito like a bit too abstract so I'm just looking something
nice and clean I'll leave that so it looks like you'll
get the idea once I put this in
so okay so that's my text for the bottom and I'm gonna do that in white I think so
just highlight all the text select the colour a top pick white and then that's
all in white and I'm just going to resize it by hovering my mouse over it pick the
center okay I'm happy with that. Left click off there and it place it in
position, so that my thumbnail looking reasonable OK I think and obviously at
this point we need to export it and so we can put it into YouTube and put it as
a custom thumbnail within our YouTube video so up to the left hand corner
click on the menu icon in here you've got several different options what we
need to do is do a need to do is a "save as" then we want a 2d JPEG so select the 2d
JPEG it's then how do I save this so I'm going to call it test two it's going
into pictures it's gonna save here click Save no we don't want to rate the app
just yet, now thats our thumbnail created and I'm just going to minimize
this window now and I'm gonna go into find our thumbnail dragging in from my other
screen and then open my one I've just created so that is my thumbnail that I
have just created this now previewing it in windows. So now when you go into
your YouTube channel you can go to in the thumbnail creation tool area where you set
your default one, and your Youtube thumbnail. The select the upload tool in YouTube and then just upload it
as your custom thumbnail. OK so I hope you enjoyed the video if you do please did please
give me a like or any comments below and please do subscribe to my channel.
helps and producing more videos thank you for watching