Alib Abdal is one of the most popular YouTuber right now and he's very popular with his
simplistic productive video his videos thumbnails are very simple and attractive to the viewers and
often he use similar kind of style of thumbnail for his videos now I started a series called
Creator create challenge where I'm going to show you all of the process that what popular YouTubers
do to create YouTube thumbnails for their videos and how they just go blow up with their thumbnails
so you can follow up the style and create your own style and just grow your channel easily now
first I'm going to take some of the pictures of myself as like I and then I'm going to choose
this one after that with the image I need icons Arrow PNG and also the background for our world
after collecting all of those now we are ready to start our video now for this video I'm going to
use the Photoshop but this task you can also use the free version of Photoshop is called photopia
it's very kind of similar and online version you can just use it as like Photoshop and do the same
kind of process as like me for first we're going to create a document to do that go to the file
and new over here and then you can just the custom size of full HD size now a lot of people are like
to go with the HD version but in my preference I always like to go with the full HD version is
give me a more range to work with then I'm going to create that after that here now we're going to
first use our model as like Al abd's video as he's using I'm using kind of similar forio that I took
and which is I really like now you can see I just pain my image over there and now first we need to
remove the background of the image to do that it's a very easy way we can use the pain tool
but for me it's a beginner tutorial I'm going to use that quick selection tool then I'm going to
go to the selected mask you can also find that over go to the select and here cender and mask
then select the subject by one click we're going to select the model and you can see it's kind of
okay but you can see there is some area need to be refined as like over there and also in this
part be area and also that part to do that I'm going to use the brush tool you can see it might
be selected that it need to to be select that brush tool then we're going to click right on
our Mouse and is going to open that like hardness I'm going to increase the hardness around 50% you
can just skip it and then just click and drag it will add the selection you can see this part has
been added now take your time and just add some of this area that you think it can be
added so I think this is okay I need also to add this part so do that just as like it is
now this red part will going to be removed and also the only the visible area would going to
be kep so now here I think it's perfectly all right you can see there's some issues
so we can fix it just click and drag this is done and I think I'm happy with that next just
go to the output over here you can see it's going to be over there like this one just go
here output select new layer with layer mask and then just click now you can see we just
remove the background first we're going to convert that image into smart object to keep
that size accurate then go to the and take it here and paste it now then go to edit and free
transform we need to reduce the size you can just click and drag over here to reduce the
size like here just you can just make it a little bit bigger smaller and then place it
now just I want to make it a little bit bigger as it is and also there's some area is need to
be perfectly all right now again we'll just make this on as a smart object we're going
to click on the thumbnail double click and it going to open another one then just go
here and create a new layer like take it take a solid color in this case I'm going to go to
White and take that into the back area and some of the area is need to be refined again so we
can do that easily select the layer mask then select the brush tool make it bigger decrease
the hardness and then take it the black in the in the forr color and just remove some of this
area so after that I think this is area is need to be okay uh just a little bit and then next step we
need to retouch our image to do that just take this spotting tool then we going to select and
remove those Sports first select this layer create a new layer to do that in un non-destructive way
then select that sample all layer then create just click and just make editing and remove those
Sports now after removing the spot next I'm going to do some of the color adjustment I can keep
it is but as like the AL ABD do he use a lot of contrast and so color highlights on his face so
I'm going to do the same like that for that first we need to create a snapshot of that first I'm
going to off that layer then press shift Control Alt e on your keyboard is going to be on Mac shift
control shift command option e on their keyboard first then convert that into a smart object I
can convert that but yeah for me I need to be create a duplicate layer then convert that into
smart object and also by this one go to the image adjustment and invert you can use that control I
keyboard then change the blending mode and the Vivid light after that go to the filter others
High Pass increase the high pass a little bit and then again go to the filter blur and Gan blur this
time just increase that where the details might be gone and I think it's okay next step is to
just we're going to add a negative layer Mass to do that first apply a layer mass then select the
layer mass and control I to invert that next step take the brush tool use the forr color is
white opacity around 30% to 40% and then apply that smoothness face smoothness into the face
area and I think I'm not we don't need that hand part so I'm going to only taret on the
face next you're going to create a contrast and also we call that do and burn technique so just
go to the adjustment layer take the curve now take that and make it highlight a little bit
change the blending mode and just linear Dodge or something color screen I think linear Dodge
is okay now decrease the opacity and I think it's perfectly all right 8% now we're going
to remove this from the certain part to do that just take the brush tool for color is black and
then just remove that part I think it's okay for now then again go the adjustment layer now this
time take the curve tool and this time change the blending mode into linear burn now decrease
the opacity and just increase it certain part and then we're going to invert that layer mask
just again control I and now take the time and apply that color burn color into the side part
of that now if I just turn the out and you can see some of the difference and just want to make
sure the difference is visible and also this time take a time and apply that color and I think it's
perfectly all right now we can do other color guarding in the next part now just CR off that
layer by pressing yes you're going to save that and now you can see all of the things is apply
on that next we're going to create the background select the background then go to over here take
the background I'm using a simple backdrop over here and now I'm going to make it a little bit
bigger and I think it's okay next we're going to apply Gan blur go to the filter blur and take the
gussian blur increase the gussian blur a little bit then we're going to introduce some of the
color to do that let's create a blank layer then take the brush tool and now here we're going to
choose a color like bright blue and it's okay then just apply that color and this time take a white
color and now change the blending mode into color DOD or something whatever screen color I think
linear is doing great and now this time just take a time and apply the color a little bit certain
area to just pop up the cat we're going to use the overlay overlay is good I think what should
it going to be work on overlay or something it's all right Next Step and we're going to add another
color over here like uh just a complimentary color which is be yellow or kind of other color like you
want I think overlay is working good next we're going to use our icons over the
design now we're going to create some of the angles by press control you
can just uh over here press t uh I'm going to skew that and a little bit
just it's already been done next we're going to apply motion blur over here
just select that for the filter blur and take that motion blur I can just apply
the motion a little bit we can increase the size over there okay then apply that
filter now you can see we just applied our color next step is to apply that icon in the
back area so we have that icon over there and just over that we're going to uh do
vertically and make it a little bit bigger and I think it's that arrow is a little bit
big so we need to to be adjust that we're going to apply a layer mask over here then
I'm going to take the brush tool increase the opacity hardness and then we're going
to same now we're going to apply white color double click over here then apply
Color overlay and we're going to introduce white
color now as you can see we need to do some of the adjustment over there
and I think it's okay and we're going to apply also a drop shadow double click over here and
then apply drop shadow change that color into black then to multiply a darken and then just
a little bit that would be fine I think next step is to apply I think the arrow can be changed I'm
just using as a as a reference and then also I'm going to use that number of followers so
do that so over here zero and then make it up bigger and then just to be bold I think
it's extra bold uh black I think extra bold would be perfect yes I think it's okay then
over here I think it's need to make a little bit smaller 1 M I think it's perf perfect what about
changing the font I think we going to Roboto Roboto font I think is work good and make it
smaller and decrease that
Gap and I think I'm not happy with that font uh so I'm going to try another font it's called Poppins
minus 25 would be perfect and then change I'm going to change the color into white again apply
the same effect so just press double click and then apply drop shadow apply another drop shadow
it's okay and do the same thing by pressing alra option and then copy that FX and P page over here
now after adding the text Next Step we're going to create our follow to do that just we're going
to take a shape and create a shape over here then if I zoom closer you can see there is some ball
over here I'm going to click and drag to create a circle with the shap and then you can also find
that just in the properties panel over here you can see it's a 16 pixel it's okay now I'm going
to decrease the opacity over here like a fill and I think is okay next we're going to apply drop
shadow to do that just press our double click over here then again apply the drop shadow now
this time we're going to add another drop shadow I think one drop shadow is okay then I'm going to
introduce a color like inner glue uh and it's okay again just decrease the fill a little bit more and
I think it's okay right now and we are good to go then we're going to type a letter over here
follower and then make it a smaller and place it over here I'm going to use monster font and
then I'm going to increase the gap of the text and change the font color into black not a full
black something like this one and then just place it and do the same thing by select this two layer
and take text and press alt or option on your keyboard and then click and drag and I think
it's okay now next step is to just color grade everything and make it perfect first we're going
to color grade our model image like my image then go to the filter and we're going to use the camera
filter this time I'm going to go to the basic and here I'm going to increase the highlights decrease
the shadows and also I'm going to decrease the blacks I'm going to Al a little bit and then
going to texture Clarity and also DEH this time go to the details over here you can see there is
a lot of details I'm going to reduce the noise and you can see it's make the smoothness reduce the
color noise and then go to the color mixer here we're going to adjust that over yellowish on the
face I think is okay now for me and I think just hit okay next we're going to again apply
a drop Shad for the model just double click over here apply drop shadow and I think one
drop sh is perfectly all right then again we're going to color grid everything in
by chance this one now press shift Control Alt e on your keyboard and create a snapshot
and then press the right button on Mouse and convert that in smart object now again go to
the filter camera filter this time we're going to color everything all over the
image and then this is fine and now we can see we're almostly done to recreate that Ali Abdul
thumbnails now I just want to show you all the process that what you can do to create Al abdal
style of thumbnails and just what the process that Al abdal also do when it's come to creating
thumbnails his thumbnail is very simple and very easy way to create but the process is just want
to just highlight at your model or yourself so I hope you like this video If you like this video
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