Hey Guys!
James here with jameswedmore.com giving you the upper hand with your online video and
youtube marketing and today I'm super duper excited because Youtube has unlist the custom
thumbnail function ability for all of us normally out there everyone else out there on youtube
you can see right here this fantastic one of the most exciting update and function we
can have available to us to improve our engagement to get more views and to get more results
with our youtube marketing so basically right now a stand you only have three option randomly
chosen completely ramdom for your thumbnail that can be seen whenever someone are searching
or looking related videos.
Now we have the option to upload our own custom thumbnail, so what we gonna do this video
to show you very quickly how to create the custom thumbnail very quickly and easily.So
lets go!
Alright so first thing your gonna do is find the video that you've obviously you wanna
add your thumbnail too and take a moment and just go through the video look for short that
really exemplifies look your video is all about really has something important most
desirable shot, I like to call the golden shot that thing really gonna make your video
better than every one else thats gonna be our new thumbnails so what I did as I found
my own videos where I actually golfing in the video, and you know that's very unique
that's very different so I'm gonna go ahead and use that so, what I do since I'm act I
can do command SHIFT 4 and I can actualy take a screenshot of what i've like right now that
would save on my computer the next thing I'm gonna do is to open up kenno, why kenno?
will I'm on mac and I don't have photoshop or any other photo editing software on my
computer a lot of my student don't either so this is normally the easiest way to edit
and manipulate photos, now Im gonna add my image to the photo and then I'm going to created
a rectangular shape just like so I want the background to be empty and what we gonna do
is to try and actually make this shape pretty big I mean we gonna make a list size big now,
I do recommend you make your thumbnail as big as possible so don't get pics related
or anything like that for start images on embedded videos.
Now to make sure to we have right ratio remember all videos are 16:9 and embedded in 16:9 ratio
go to google type in 16:9 and the third one down gonna be the size43.com/jqueryvideotool.html
we gonna click on that link and it's gonna be tha very little piece of software that
allow us to chose our width and make a hieght base on that.
So I can just do something like 700 and now I know 700 by 394 I go back to my kenno I
measure out 700 by 394 now I have a perfect 16 by 9 ratio, this is the template for my
video thumbnail, now what I've done is resize and reshape the image so that the same size
here make it a litle pics litle bit were just using the demostration and on the next thing
were gonna do a really spices up is add some text my video for go back over to my channel
is on the topic of the Anatomy of the PERFECT YouTube Video what to see in you, so I can
come up with some clever text here like the perfect youtube video then we gonna do is
simply just play around with this a litle bit into we get something that we are happy
with I can do a simple areal if I've dark background like I do I'm on white and want
this to be as big a possible, Now obviously this one is just for demonstration purposes
but you can see this just quickly I've put it together last thing I would do is take
another sreenshot update command shift 4 and I'm with grab just within the dimension of
this border I've created and that will save ladies and gentlemen to my desktop, Now you
have my perfect examples my finished youtube thumbnail what I'm gonna used when I upload
this to my video so that when everyone sees this they will see this exact image need ... with
this text below.
Now I still think you can make your thumbnail look way better than Idea that just this for
demonstration purposes but I highly recommend you do this now don't just do it to the next
video that you upload next week or tomorrow etc..
do this to all of your past videos as well, why?
I fell that people are going to a views this option this functionality and so youtube may
take this away very quickly I don't know what I gonna do with it if I leave it up to everybody
so go in higher graphic designer get sytem on the script someone to help you with this
and make you thumbnail for all of your past videos remember to make your thumbnails relevant
engaging, pop and really benefit dragon.
Alright this is James Wedmore I hope you've injoy this litle video I've put together for
you, please make sure to subscribe to my channel like this video and go ahead share this video
to some one that you think could benefit this information, Thanks
and talk to you soon!