Hey, this is Derral Eves with DerralEVES.com. Have you wondered how to customize your thumbnail
on your YouTube video? Well today I'm going to show you how to do it. Iím going to show
you how to do it like the pros and when you do this, youíre actually going to get more
views on that video.
Stay tuned.
I'm going to show you how simple this really is, itís not that complicated. Youíve got
to click of the upper right-hand corner for the video manager. This will bring in the
section where it has all your uploaded videos and the one I want to change is, ìHow to
change your YouTube Video Custom Thumbnail.
So go ahead and click that edit button and right here YouTube automatically selects three
thumbnails that you can choose from and one of them might be great, but I want you to
use this step because it's going to bring more conversions. Itís about more people
clicking on that video and watching the video and to do that they have this custom thumbnail
button that your able to upload and Iím going to show you how to maximize the clicks from
there.
So the first thing is we got to know what file size we need to create that thumbnail.
They suggest that we use 1280 pixels by 720 pixels. Now you might not know what a pixel
is, do not worry about it. I will show you everything, all you need to do is follow the
instructions in this video. And you can upload it as a JPEG, GIF, PNG, whatever and have
it to be no more than 2 MB. But Iím going to show you everything, how simple it is.
You donít need any additional software.
So letís go ahead and click on the video here and we want to click this ìWatch On
YouTubeî button. So go ahead click that. Now once the video loads we want to find the
exact shot that we want to use. So you want to scrub through your video. Just kind of
play your video and pause it, find the perfect picture. I like this one. And then what you
want to do is hit full-screen mode. Now when you're in full screen mode, what weíre going
to do now is take a screenshot of the picture that we selected in the video.
On Windows you can use the snipping tool. If you don't know anything about the snipping
tool, click in the link below in the description and youíll get some more information on the
snipping tool in windows.
On a Mac, super simple. All you need to do is hit command, shift, 4 and you're now able
to take a screenshot of the image. So go ahead and do that. And now that saves it to the
desktop, that image to the desktop and weíll use that in a minute.
Thereís also for advanced users, there is a tool called Skitch and you can look in the
description below and what that does is it actually increases the resolution of that
screen shot which is great if you want to a higher-quality image.
So weíll leave the full-screen mode and what we'll want to do now is go to this website,
Pixlr.com and its spelled PIXLR.com.
Now here we'll go ahead and hit open pixelr editor and it will say create a new image.
So you want to click on that and here's the great thing guys, right here with a new image
we'll go head and scroll all the way down to where it says movie 720. And look at this,
it brings it in at 1280 x 720, so it already did it for us. We didnít have to put anything
in there. So letís go ahead and open that, that brings up our our document. And Iím
going to move the file size down just a little bit so that you can see what weíre doing
here.
The next thing we want to do is come in the upper right-hand corner here and click on
open image. This will be able to, youíll be able to search your desktop, okay and that's
what we want you to do. So letís go ahead and use the image, I did the screenshot. I
really like this image here. And letís go-ahead and what will want to do is over in the right-hand
corner here, we want to click on the layers and just drag it to your new frame.
Notice that it just filled that in perfectly from the screenshot. And you can adjust it,
you'll notice that it's not exactly where I want it. But here we are, we can adjust
it perfectly from there and weíre just moments away of having our perfect custom thumbnail.
Now what we want to do is click on this A button here in the tools. And this brings
up a type tool. Letís go ahead and click that. And what will want to do is put our
verbiage here so, how to customize your YouTube thumbnail. Okay so we have that
there. Now the great thing about this is we can actually just start modifying it right
within this and lets go ahead and make it a lot bigger. See that, we can use that a
lot bigger. Go ahead and do it from there, weíre going
to move this just off to the side so you can see what weíre doing. Do it a lot bigger
here, okay.
The great thing is that you can do a different style font, look at all these different fonts
that you can do. Now go ahead and you can just go down to see how it changes in your
screen there. Let's just find a font that would work for us let's go ahead and find
a good font. You know, I like that. Itís nice and bold and let's go ahead and make
it size we want. What I want to do is get it so that is not right on top of me and I
can change the color.
Go ahead and quick the color thing here. I want it like a deep red or something like
that, I like red. That always works out really, really good. So weíre starting to modify
this a little bit maybe we want to just up the size just to, letís just get it up to
like 80 or 93. Letís move it around just a little bit. Looks
like I need to space it over, okay, we got it! And I think on this one, lets go ahead
and put and exclamation point. Hit 0K. Now the great thing about this is weíre almost
there.
Most of you say hey look, look at that. Iím perfect. This is great. What we want to do
is go click over here on the upper right-hand side where it says, ìLayer Stylesî and letís
go ahead and click that button. Let's take even a step further and, all this is online
guys this is not an application, so we want to have a bevel.
And we want to adjust that bevel. Thatís way too big of a bevel so we want to just
create the size just a little bit. Like that, I like that bevel right there. And letís
go ahead and hit drop shadow. Okay, and we want to do the same thing with drop shadow.
Letís bring the shadow down and the distance right there. Look at that.
So look how simple that that is and that we have that. Now that we have the image all
we got to do is come up to Edit. I'm sorry, to File and then down to Save and it will
save on your desktop. Now this is an important thing. Go ahead and name it. Letís call it
YouTube Thumbnail. And the great thing about it is we want to come down here and click
the format. Weíll just keep it as a JPEG and the quality we want to do it at 100% and
go ahead and hit okay. Itís going to ask you where to save it. Iím going to go ahead
and save it to my desktop.
Now once thatís done. We need to come back to our channel and to get back where we need
to be we need to go ahead and hit edit. So letís go to the video manager again.
And let's hit the edit button. And weíll now get this custom thumbnail and upload the
image that we actually just did. And itís going to take a minute or two, or second to
upload Now that itís uploaded, all we got to do is select it here and hit save changes
and this could be saving here for second. And letís go ahead and hit refresh and Wall-a!
That's how you customize those thumbnails for the YouTube videos.
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