Thumbnails just may likely be the most important tool that YouTube has given us
creators to get viewers in watching our content I want to show you guys how I go
ahead and make some boss looking thumbnails to get those all-important
clicks
how's it going I'm Shmojoe14 and if you're new here I'd like to welcome you
welcome now that that's out of the way let's get right into this thumbnails are
ridiculously important to your videos just as important as the title and the
quality content you're producing I mean the thumbnails what helped you find me
here today they're basically the electronic equivalent of a freeway
billboard to get you to stop off at the world's biggest ball of twine but the
freeway is YouTube and the world's biggest ball of twine is still the
biggest ball of twine it's just a video about it I want to show you guys what I
do when I'm thinking of and actually producing a thumbnail that way maybe you
can apply some of the techniques and have a little bit of inspiration for
your own works all right step numero one I just got done making a cinematic
masterpiece that's one Nicolas Cage ugly cry away from winning an Emmy once I
have my videos directive you know something like how to make a YouTube
thumbnail look boss I want to make sure that that thumbnail is gonna be able to
convey the audience what they're gonna get they're gonna click on that
thumbnail and know that ShmoJoe is gonna bring forth his immaculate wisdom
and cunning humor because that's what we do around here this is step number DOS
there are many ways you can capture an image to use as your thumbnail two
common ways is either one use a snippet from the video itself or two if you like
me it's frickin photo shoot time
so we decided after looking through them this is where we're gonna be at right
now so first thing I want to be able to do is remove this background here a lot
of times people go in and mask it out manually let me show you guys a little
trick there's a website called remove BG we're going to select our photo open up
the items load our file in as you can see progresses pretty quick got
ourselves a couple of seconds here
dang just like that she done so we're gonna go ahead and download that bad boy
we're going to add a border to this image I like to use paint 3d why because
it's free we're going to select the entire image itself and we're going to
ctrl C to copy reason be is because we're going to put an outline around this
thing so we'll copy that image go to our brushes open up the spray can I know
from earlier that I like 75 pixel density and a 50% opacity all you got to
do is trace the outside of the image with a nice steady hand
and would you look at that little snow-capped mountains but you say Joe
you painted over the top yourself how do you fix it
control V that's how wallah just like that so now we're going to select that
image again as a whole and copy it we're gonna open up our background that we
want with paint 3d again all you got to do
paste we've already got a copied drag it to where I want it let me get the right
size it's a freaking work of art what did it take me a minute and a half we got
something beautiful going on ready we're gonna be save a copy I'm gonna use the
image location and we're going to call it thumb for the gods
of YouTube now the other program I use to do this is Adobe spark it's nice
because you can just pop text over they have custom sizes already for YouTube
thumbnails and everything like that they have text icons you can put over
top as well as stickers and multiple other things I like to keep the theme
going at normally with the yellow text on the top white and black text on the
bottom then you know its a shmojoe14 production so we're gonna just upload
that image that we just used Holy Mother Mary that's gorgeous
text 1 I'm gonna change that to how to make youtube thumbnails
texts to the all-important clothes are here the most clickbaity thing I can
think of like a boss
now this isn't something that's gonna get you to click on a video I don't know
what the hell is all right everyone I hope that you guys learned something
today and that you got a couple of laughs on the way guys got any questions or
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thanks for hanging out with me