hello everyone welcome back to another video in this video we're going to see how to create this
awesome you thumbnails in Photoshop I'm going to show all the process that what I do when it's come
to create clickbait thumbnails and you can also go with your image to create this kind of Awesome
YouTube thumbil in Photoshop so I you're going to learn a lot of things in this video and also
happy New Year for 2014 I know I'm a little bit belayed and also I'm not consistent in my
channel but I'm targeting 2014 to be consistent and create a g YouTube thumbnails and also a lot
of the ad software to for you I hope you're going to learn a lot of things so be sure to stay with
us and let's start the video now in this case you have to go with your image to create this
kind of thumbnail and after opening the image next step is to edit our images first we need
to remove the background and we're going to use that pen tool because as you know in a
professionalism work or in kind of professional work you have to go with the pen tool to remove
background or make a selection so to do that just take the penol and make a pot around the
body
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now after cting the path you can see we have closed that Next Step we're going to convert
that path into selection for easy way you can just press the right button on your mouse and make
selection next we're going to do some of the refin edges because you can see
the hair part of the body is need to be more refined the edges to do
that just select the layer mask and go to the select and also select a
mask
to do that we're going to use the SMUD tool in the pen tool area now after applying the
select Mouse you can see we need to remove or make the adjustment of the edges if I create
any kind of white background or background white background or black background you can see the
edges is not perfect now apply the smudge tool in the inner side and outer side of the model
edges to make it perfect to do that first select the layer mask then take the smudge tool you can
just take a time and adjust it perfectly and make that edges more smoother and also more realistic
way
now after applying the smudge tool next step we need to remove the spot from the faces to
do that just take the healing spot and apply that spot to Air and the remove the spot from
the faces just do it perfectly and just we need don't need to be make it too much just a little
bit that can be just shown after editing so do that just remove the spots from the
faces Next Step we're going to make the skin smoother like Mr Bas to do that first convert
the layer into smart object then create a duplicate layer and restor the layer after
that just invert the layer to do that go to the image adjustments and invert you can use also the
cont contr I shortcut key on your keyboard after that change the blending mode into Vivid light and
then apply the high pass from the filter option now remember that applying highp pass is just
need to be make adjustment is different for every Skin So adjust that highpass and see which is more
perfect for your skin and then apply it after applying the highpass next step we need to be
apply a negative laras to do that just press alt or option if you're using back you need to press
option on your keyboard and then click on the lay Mouse and then take the brush tool be sure the
foreground color is white then apply that smoother into the skin area to make it more smoother our
skin now take a time and adjust that opacity and all everything to make it perfect don't
go with too much and don't go with less to make this adjustment it depends on your eye
how you like to do it and for final editing we're going to apply camera filter into the
image and to make it more perfectly and just create that kind of effect or like more like
thumbnail effect of the faces or the images to do that just make the adjustment with everything
the basic the color mixer and also the details and you can also go with the color grading and
everything to see which is perfect in camera filter is kind of experimental so just apply
that camera filter and everything try to find out which is more perfect for
image and I'm happy with that our next step is to create a blank
document I'm going to go with the fullest size document because in my preference I will always
like to go with the full HD not the HD version to make the thumbnail more higher resolution to the
preview next step we're going to create the background you can just
follow my steps and use the pen tool and also the
color solid color to just create the thumbnail or just a background of that
thumbnail
next take the image and paast it into the
thumbnail now take the brush tool and apply some of the color in the background to just make it
perfectly okay and see which color is perfectly blend with your background air and with your
image
our next step is to apply text effect into the layer style now in here in a text effect
there's a lot of things you need to be remember there's not any specific reason or any kind of
specific way you can apply text effect into the text so we need to do a lot of experiment
with the stroke with the blending mode with the color gradient and everything and see which is
perfectly working and which is not so that's why on last video I don't explain everything
because there is not any specific rules or any kind of specific style you can just follow you
have to do experiment and finalize which is perfect and which is working with your
thumbnail
our next step is to apply 3D icons into the thumbnails I'm going to apply some of
the icons into the thumbnails to make the uh thumbnails more popup and also
more interesting that so I want to show some of the things to do that I have downloaded
an AI file from the free if you want to download that same effect you can
just check the link in the description I going for that how to download it
now I'm going to take some time and apply the 3 icon all over the thumbnails to
just make it more good looking so just follow my steps and apply those three
icons after placing this icon I'm going to apply just some motion blur into the
icons to just give that kind of dynamic look because if I just keep that in how
it is it's not going to look good and so I don't want to make this kind of statistic
I'm going to give some more the motion to do that just apply motion blur from the filter
option
now after applying the icons and you just motion Bar Next Step I'm going
to just make some adjustment with the text effect and also I'm going
to add more text into the thumbnail to all the adjustments and place it
perfectly
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and for the final effect I'm going to apply glowing and also some kind of color into the
background and foreground of the model to just give that it is how it is and apply
some of the simple effect which is going to be just separate our background and the foreground
of the model to do just do some of the things which is necessary and this is completely just
optional you can just skip it or just you want to follow my steps you can just easily apply
that now I'm going to try some of the editing and just want to see how it's
look with the black and white and also if I do any kind of color gring and
how it's going to look so I want to try some things so I just apply and
see and finally I think that it's not working properly so I'm going
to keep that how it is and for the final I'm going to go with the color
grading of the whole thumbnail and then finally do the color
grading
and now you can see we're done for editing with the thumbnails and you can see how it's looking
it's looking very icatchy and also clickbaity and if you want to download the same thumbnail
template you can just check the link in the description I going to put the link to download
and you can make any kind of editing and use it for yourself and if you want any kind of
thumbnails or any kind of graphics for you can just contact to my agency because I'm starting
my a freelance agency where I just make thumbnails for uh for my clients so you can just go and check
this out and thank you so much for watching see you in my next video till then bye-bye