- If you're looking for a totally free app,
that'll help you make your photos pop.
And by pop I mean look awesome!
You want to put text on it.
You want to crop it.
You want to put a bunch of love and personality in it,
and make a really awesome YouTube thumbnail.
Then I've got you covered.
But first, let me introduce myself.
My name is Dee Nimmin and you're watching
the Master Your Mobile video series.
Where I help you take your mobile device and turn it into
a pocket sized production studio and so much more.
So if you're ready to go, let's jump right in,
and open Snapseed.
Now this is available on iOS and Android devices.
It's totally free.
No in app purchases and in my opinion it is
one of the best photo apps out there.
It's absolutely incredible and it's very easy.
And today I'm going to walk you through making a thumbnail.
So let's open it and get started.
When you open Snapseed,
the first thing you're going to notice is that,
a screen pops up that says you can tap anywhere
to open an photo.
So tap on that and go find a photo
that you want to use for your thumbnail.
For the purpose of this video, we're going to do
a travel vlog thumbnail,
because I just came back from Iceland,
and I've got a bunch of those types of pictures in my phone.
So I'm going to choose this picture,
which is me sitting in the middle of the road,
in the middle of nowhere, in Iceland.
Now, we are going to make a really simple thumbnail today.
This is pretty much like a bare bones, crash course
on how to make a basic thumbnail.
So now that your photo's open,
the first thing you want to do,
is go down to Tools and find the Crop feature.
Now when you have the Crop feature open
you're going to see a whole bunch of options down there.
You want to scroll to the far right, which is 16 to 9.
That is the YouTube aspect ratio for a thumbnail.
And when it loads up, you're going to see guides
on top of your picture, these little lines here.
Don't worry about that,
those are not going to be in the final result.
Those are to help you line up the picture
when you crop the photo.
So for this one, I'm going to line up that bottom line
with the horizon there, and I'm going to hit the check mark.
I'm going to go back to Tools.
I'm going to hit Rotate.
And as you can see here, it's going to auto rotate
for me and put the horizon where it thinks it should go.
Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong.
You can kind of tweak it by
placing your finger on the screen
and just moving it left or right.
When you get right where you want it,
hit the check mark again.
Pretty easy huh?
Now, hit Tools again.
We're going to into Tune Image here on the top.
Click that and if you put your finger down
and you scroll through you're going to see brightness,
contrast, saturation, ambience and so on.
For this picture, I'm going to add some Ambience,
which is, I'm going to bring up the mid tones here.
And you can see if you move your finger to the right
or to the left it's going to add or take away.
I'm going to put mine about right there.
I'm also going to put a little bit of saturation.
Make that sky pop out a little bit.
And I'm going to hit the check mark.
So I want the sky to be a little bit more blue,
so I'm going to go to Tools, go to Selective,
and see the little plus thing down there,
I'm going to just drop that right there
and scroll that up and down.
Go to Saturation and increase that.
You see what's happening there?
I've used two fingers, it's going to show you,
in red, the area that's being affected.
So I'm actually going to bring this out and make it pretty
big because I want that to take over the whole sky.
Alright I like that.
Moving along, go back to Tools, go down to Text.
Double tap, and since we're on Iceland,
we're going to call this Iceland.
You can use two fingers here and size it up.
Or you can use one finger and just move it up and down
or left and right like this.
Now down on the bottom you're going to see a few options,
you can click on those and play around.
You can change the font.
You can see, you can scroll through
and choose a whole bunch of options here.
I'm going to use this one because
that's the one that I like.
It's bold and easy to read.
You can change the color.
Tap there and you can see all kinds of colors.
You can scroll through and tap whatever you want.
Choose whatever looks good for you.
I'm going to choose, yellow.
Hit the check.
Now Snapseeed is obviously not the only app
out there you can do this with.
There's plenty of other great apps out there.
It's just my personal favorite
and it works perfectly into my workflow.
Whatever works for you, that's great.
If Snapseed doesn't work for you, that's fine too.
If you want to leave a comment down below
and let me know what your favorite app is
or what you've currently been using to make your
YouTube thumbnails, that would be great.
I'd love to check it out.
Maybe do a tutorial on it and share it with everybody else.
Let's get back to the thumbnail.
Okay now, I'm going to go and click on Tools one more time.
Hit text again, double tap that.
(cymbal crash)
And we're going to drop our text right there.
We're going to resize it.
And I'm going to move it over and shrink it down.
(acoustic drum music)
Okay, now here's the thing.
I liked it and I can't click on it.
If I go back to it, I'm trying to get to it,
I can't go back to Edit.
So what do you do?
You go up to the top here.
You see the little backwards arrow in the Layers?
You tap on that, go to View Edits.
And you're going to see a bunch of layers
and that's what you actually did to edit the picture.
So the last one that we added was the last bit of text.
So I'm going to click that.
Now you have the option to delete it, to paint on a mask,
which we're not going to do in this tutorial, or adjust it.
I'm going to double click it.
And I'm going to change the text.
(acoustic drum music)
Alright, I like that text better.
Now I'm going to enlarge it, using two fingers.
Just like that.
Now that looks a lot better to me.
Again, this is a very basic tutorial
so we're kind of keeping it on the easy side for now.
I might try to change the color a little bit.
(acoustic drum music)
Okay, I like that.
I'm going to hit the check button.
And if I want to change the bigger text,
I can go back and do that too.
I can change the Selective option.
I can delete it.
I can go back and retune the image if I want.
But the important thing is,
is you go all the way back to the top when you back out.
Alright, I like this so I'm going to export it.
And load it up for YouTube when I put my video online.
We do that by hitting Export and Export.
And it's going to save a copy to your phone.
It's not going to delete the original footage
or overwrite it.
You'll just have to go in and find it your camera roll.
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