Hi there, if you want to know how to create a custom thumbnail for your YouTube videos,
stay tuned, watch this very short video and I'll show you exactly how.
Hi there. David Walsh here, once again, from DavidWalshOnline.com and in this video I'm
going to show you how to make a custom thumbnail for your YouTube Videos.
Now, this is one of the most popular questions I get on my YouTube channel, from people who
want to add custom thumbnails onto their videos, but just don't know how.
Now, before we get there, make sure you have enabled 'Custom Thumbnails' on your videos,
and if you haven't done so already, click on the link, here, to watch the other video
or the link in the description below and you will see how you can enable custom thumbnails
on your YouTube videos. Once you have that done, then we're going
to go over to the computer now, and I'm going to show you how to make your custom thumbnails
so that you can add them to all your YouTube videos.
Ok. So, here I am inside Adobe Premier. This is the software I use to edit my videos. So,
what I do, is, I can export a slide or an image from my video, and then, I bring that
into my custom thumbnail. Now, the size of your custom thumbnail should
be 1280 x 720. You don't need to go to the full height definition size of 1920 x 1080.
1280 x 720 is more than good enough. And that is the size that YouTube even recommends you
use, as well. So, when I find a place that I like... So,
something like that, or I could just scroll through, or like this one, here, where it's
quite nice looking, I've got a smile on my face, so, I can just export this. Go to file,
export, and I go to media, and then I select .png, here.
And I make sure to unselect export to the sequence, because then, it will export every
single slide, every single frame from my video. So, I just want to do that. Then tell it where
it's going to go, click on 'Save', then click on export.
So, once I have this image exported, I can then bring it into Photoshop and then I can
add my text. So, I've got my image here, so, I'm just going to open my Photoshop.
So, here is my image, now, in Photoshop, so I can then, take this and then, I can add
my text. So, if I wanted to move myself over, I can just go here, move it over here, I'll
just add a white background to the back, like so and then I can add my text.
So, I like to templatise things, so, I'm going to pick an image I've already done and I'm
just going to copy the text from this over and there I'll have my text and then I can
change that text to whatever I like. 'A custom thumbnail.'
I just remove this, like so. And that's a quick way of doing that. Now, one thing you
need to do, as well as make sure that it's 1280 x 720 is have text that stands out and
be visible at small sizes. So, if I brought this down to a very small
size, you can still read that text, no matter, even if it is 1/8 of the size it is normally.
So, with your thumbnail, make sure that it's visible at large and small sizes. I recommend
that you templates everything, that you have your thumbnails consistent, so that people
recognise your brand whenever they see your thumbnails.
Now, if you don't want to have everything the same then, pick maybe three, maybe four
different styles and if you've got different topics that you talk about on your videos,
you could have one style per topic. So, that's how I create custom thumbnails
using the software that I use, which is Adobe Photoshop for my graphics and Adobe Premier
for my video. Now, if you're looking to use a different
piece of software, I don't use any other software than this, so, I don't know how to do that.
If you are looking for something, then do a quick search on YouTube. There are plenty
tutorials available for you. If you can't export a frame from your video software, then
what I recommend is you use a solid colour on your background and then whatever colour
that you use, make sure that your text stands out from that colour, so that it's visible
especially from small sizes. So, there you go that is how you quickly and
easily make custom thumbnails for your YouTube videos. And as you can see, you can use any
image creation software, whether it's free or paid for to create your thumbnails, however
you want. And if you're looking for software, just do
a quick search for image creation software in Google, and you'll easily find plenty to
choose from. Now, if you found this video helpful or you
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