Okay, so I'm going to show you a really quick and easy way to make
YouTube thumbnails. And we're going to be using canva.com, which is
something that you're probably familiar with already. But right
before we jump into canva.com, I want to make it clear that we'll be
using a successful thumbnail, not just one that looks all pretty and
stuff, because just because it looks good doesn't mean that it
necessarily performed well. But this one, this one in particular, it got
a lot of views for how small my channel was at the time. And it was
really small, like under 50 subscribers. And this video to this
date now has a little bit over 1.5 1000 views, million 1000. And it
was also not based around any kind of trending topic at the time. So I
really think it makes more sense to show you something that works based
on actual evidence. But close to the end of this video, I'll talk a
little bit more as to what could have possibly caused that increase
in views, because it can be a number of things. But let's get into what
you came here for, which is how to make a YouTube thumbnail quickly and
easily. Okay, so this is a YouTube thumbnail that will be recreating
for real estate photography. In my view, the purpose of the thumbnail
is not to tell everybody exactly what the video is about. Because
then there will be no need to click the thumbnail, right? So I wanted to
spark curiosity. And I did that by having a sample of real estate
photography work in the back, which is the house. Yes, there is a tax
that is moles in real estate photography, with an emphasis on the
photography. But it also pointed to the money and a tick check. And I
tried to position the money in front of the garage, you know, like your
drive into what is it money driving into the garage, but I'm not sure if
anybody understood that. Also, if I was going to make over this
thumbnail, what I would do is blow this background a little bit more,
maybe something like this, the hitting edit, image adjust and going
down to blue, just taking out the focus a little bit of the back to
make the front checks in the front and the stuff a pop a little bit
more. I think I might have got more views if that was the case. But I
was just trying something at the time, I didn't even know the
importance of the thumbnail at that point, or the day. So let's start
this one from scratch, delete, and delete that background, we could do
that. Or just go back to the home screen and create a design and type
YouTube thumbnail to see we still have this blank canvas to work with.
And what is the correct dimensions for YouTube thumbnail, we'll say
started with the image. It's better to use an image that's royalty free.
And I sourced that image from I believe it was unsplash. Or maybe it
was pexels. Yes, it was pixels. There it is on there's an X version
of it. But let's just go with the original one. So just easily
download this ad free download, verify that you're not a robot, all
the motorcycles download, and back to Canva. You upload, grab that
house photo, there we go. It's uploading, right and then just
simply click it and stretch it out to the canvas the way that you want
it to look best. I don't remember exactly how the other thumbnail
look. But we're going to come to something close to it. And what I'll
be doing different this time is blurring the background a little bit
so that we have the front which is the text on the front of pop. So you
go here hit blue, not so much we don't do damage we can't even make
out it's a house. So we're just take it a little bit, right, that's good.
Next, we want to add the text. So we just come over to text, add a
heading of that writer over there. And so we're gonna put real, it's
real, instead of putting everything inside of a one to make sure that we
can edit each each of the words, or let's first get the exact font and
color before we duplicate that to save time, I think what we use was,
let's see, what do we have here. I think it was Liga Gothic L. That
might have been it. So let's stretch that out. We can increase the
spacing here in the letters, there's too much right, that's, that's about
right. And it was a white, a little white font big like that. And then
we added an effect on it. So we hit effect and we'll come over to
shadow. And we also want to change the color of the shadow factory to
pop a little bit better. So we come here down to color and choose black.
Right so now we have that, that really looks good. I think it needed
to be a little space a little bit better than that. So let's just
increase that spacing a little bit more. And now I think that we're in
a good position to duplicate it.
So we hit this button over here duplicate and now let's pull this
over here. And type estate fit is all nice on that side. We can even
make a little bit bigger. I'm not gonna just duplicate this post down
here. We're gonna make photography No, maybe it was smaller. This stuff
is spaced out a little bit too much. I think I don't think photography
was as big because emphasis more on the word real estate. And there was
also a different design. We wanted to stand out it was also a different
color and effect. We had believe it was a neon. Yes, but it was that
tonight it was green. It looks good. That looks close to it. And then we
had the graphics below here with the car, well where the car would be
driving into but in this case you would have the money going into the
house. So that's like elements and search for money. I think that's it.
Well, it looks close to it. I just dropped that in the jive in the
driveway right there. And there was a checkbox what we could search for
maybe check that this one was good, but I don't think it was that one.
No, it wasn't that one. Let's see what else we have here. Want to make
sure his graphics are not video, because it's not a thumbnail video
is just a thumbnail. This looks like it looks good. There's one more
thing we needed an arrow to point from real estate photography to the
money for to look for red arrow. It can be this one. Also, what we can
do is just hit flip, right? And then we can use twisted our own tool. How
exactly how we want it easy as that. Right? I think it's positioned
properly here. Now, what do you think all you have to do now is hit
download, choose the format JPEG, PNG, I suggest PNG as well hit
download. And that's that and to get started creating your thumbnails
with Canva as well Feel free to check out the first link in the
description below where you can get started today. For the reason that
this video performed well it could have been based on several factors
are gonna just simply meant this video had all of the information
that the viewer wanted to see. Who knows, I don't want for you to but I
would say that I believe that the thumbnail spikes some kind of
curiosity, while still being clear what the video was about, which I'm
guessing encouraged people to click it. And if you're interested in
finding out more about real estate photography, and how you can get
started with it and make some money. Here's the thumbnail right here.
Yeah, this one. I'm sure you want to click it. 1500 people clicked it so
far. You don't want to be left out. Do
you