- I'm gonna show you how to make YouTube thumbnails free
in three different places online.
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Personally, I make my thumbnails using Photoshop
but I get a ton of requests of people asking,
hey Nick, how do I make thumbnails online for free.
Because of that, I said, hey, I'm gonna figure this out,
I'm gonna research and try to find some good places
that are easy to use and then can get some really
really good results for you.
So, without further adieu, let's head to the computer
and I'll show you.
But first, let me know what you're using currently
to make your thumbnails down in the comments.
The very first one on our list is Adobe Spark.
With Adobe Spark, all you have to do iso go to
Spark.Adobe.com.
You will have to create an account here, but it is free
to use Adobe Spark.
So basically what you'll do is you'll want to go
and you'll want to click on the big plus icon
over here on the right.
Once you click on that, you're gonna get options
for what it is that you want to create.
You want to create a post
and then you want to start from scratch
or you want to look around
and try to find a YouTube thumbnail.
For me, I found it faster to just start from scratch.
And then with starting from scratch I can select
the YouTube thumbnail template down here in the bottom.
So here I'm just gonna do a quick example for you.
How to make a thumbnail.
So once I have that selected, I'm gonna click on
more sizes.
And I'm gonna scroll over to YouTube thumbnail
I'm gonna make sure I have that clicked.
And then I'm gonna click on Continue.
And what you're gonna see is basically they give you
a default starting point.
So, with this default starting point
what they're doing is they're saying, okay,
you can just run with this with this image if you want to.
Or you can create something
of your own.
So what we're gonna do here is we're going to
come in here, we're going to delete this background.
I'm gonna do this real quick for you so we can get
to the other ones, as well.
But basically with the text
you can change the color to anything that you want
with the photos in the background.
I can go here, I can click on Add a Photo,
Upload a Photo.
Pull in any photo that I want for my computer.
Once that thumbnail is loaded
you can click on your text and you can drag this text
anywhere in the thumbnail area.
Now one thing that's really cool that I want to point out
is with Adobe Spark, when you click on the text
and you start moving it around
you can see how it basically reformats the text
in order to make it work
with whatever shape you end up using for the text.
So here, if we wanted to make it go all the way across
we could definitely do that.
Or we can just make it kind of small little accent
up here in the corner.
But another awesome thing about Adobe Spark is
you can change the color, you can change the fonts
that you're using.
You can change pretty much
all aspects of the thumbnail here.
You can change your opacity, you can change the
space in between letters, you can add
shapes to the background, which is pretty cool.
So let's say you want to put a square behind it,
or something like that,
then as you drag it it's gonna keep that square
happening behind you and you can change
the color of the square, and things like that,
which is pretty cool.
The options here are absolutely amazing
as far as what they provide for you
and it can really get you
some really good looking nice results
for YouTube thumbnails.
You can also change the actual picture itself.
You can change the effect on the picture.
So that comes in really handy if you're trying to
basically just come up with something
that looks a little bit different.
Give you all kinds of different options
of things that you can do
to really try to make your thumbnails stand out
a little bit.
Next up on the list is Foto Jet
and that is foto with an F
and that is fotojet.com.
In order to get your thumbnails started here
all you have to do is click on Create a Design.
And then once you land on this page here
with the design options you can choose
custom size and create your size and start from scratch.
Or, if you scroll down the page you're gonna see
social media header, you're gonna see an option here
for a YouTube thumbnail.
And I also have other social media graphics
that you can use, as well.
Then you click on the YouTube thumbnail
and then it's going to load just like Adobe Spark
it's gonna load a preformatted thumbnail for you.
Or basically, a presized thumbnail for you.
Then whatever thumbnail that you like
from this option panel over here on the left,
you just click on that thumbnail and it'll go ahead
and create that for you here in this space
and then you can later modify it.
Now besides this
I want to let you know that the ones that have
the little crown icon
those are paid upgrades
so you do not want to use those
if you're trying to do this for free.
If you're trying to do it for free, make sure
that you're selecting a thumbnail
that does not have that little crown icon on it.
So in this case, I'm gonna click this New York thumbnail
because I think that looks pretty cool.
Once it loads, then all I have to do
is I have to click double click
on the text here.
And then I change this to thumbnail.
And then, of course, any other text that I wanted to change.
And the same thing here with the actual background itself.
So let's say that I want to change this background
then I want to add a photo to it.
Then what I would do here
I'm gonna move this out of the way.
What I would do here is I would just click
Add a Photo.
Then I would click on my photo.
Drag it over here, and what it's gonna do
it's gonna replace that photo that's in the background
so then now I have my picture,
the text that I wanted to say,
and this thumbnail is pretty much ready to go.
And in a situation like this, you could even use
this part down here at the bottom
as your actual channel name
instead of adding additional text here deleting that.
So you could put your channel name there
just as a way to kind of help people
identify that it is one of your thumbnails
instead of a competitor thumbnail.
Or, something like that.
That's pretty much the, in a nutshell, how you do it
inside of Foto Jet.
And just like Spark, they have clip art that you can use.
They have shapes that you can use.
Different social media icons.
Text, different backgrounds that you can drop in.
Actual text effects, which is pretty cool
if you really want to dial in your customization here
they definitely allow you to do it.
Next up on the list is Canva.
Canva's awesome, just like Foto Jet,
just like Adobe Spark
it basically works off of templates
and lets you create it how you want to create it.
Start with what they have
and then create it how you want to create it.
So in this example, YouTube thumbnail is right here
at the top of the list.
So I'm just gonna click on that.
And then just like the other ones
you can see here
they have this huge panel
of options that you can use.
Now how the other one, how Foto Jet
had the little crown, for the upgraded versions,
this one has a little Free icon
just to let you know that you can use it for free.
So you don't want to spend any money
you want to make sure that you're using the ones
that give you the free option.
So here I'm gonna create the thumbnail
with The Journey Outwards option.
And then same thing here is I'm going to
change the text to whatever it is
that I want to change the text to.
And then I can move that into place.
Once you have your layout figured out
and you get your text on there
then if you want to change the photo in the background
all I can do is just come over here, click on Uploads.
Click on Uploads, and then you can
upload your image here.
So, in this case, I'm gonna do the same thing
I'm gonna put our image here in the background.
And when I just grab that, drag that over
as you can see here,
then it puts it there in the background
in the right place for us, as well.
Now the same thing happens here, as you can see
as I squeeze this box in
it basically squeezes the text around so that you can
manipulate the text
and get the text kind of worked out in a way to where
it looks better here.
And another bonus that you could do
just as a sidenote inside of TuberTools.com
we have thumbnail frames.
So, there's a bunch of different options there,
things you can overlay your thumbnails
and kind of make them stand out a little bit.
And one thing you could do is you can actually
grab these frames and you can pull them
over here, as well.
And you can also use these inside of Canva
and the other platforms, as well
when you are making your thumbnails.
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