All right guys.
Now we're going to talk about how to create a thumbnail for your YouTube videos.
So I use a software called Paint Doughton that I'll leave a link where you can download the software
completely free.
So once you have paint on the open this will be the default screen.
We're going to want to change the image size and to do this we just click image canvas size and then
we can change it to 12 18 by 720.
This is the default size for all YouTube thumbnails and they can just click OK.
And then I recommend zooming out a little bit so you can see what the thumbnail will look like like
on the actual YouTube page because this thumbnail is usually going to be pretty small so you can just
make it about that size.
And then sensus video that we're uploading is about YouTube or conspiracy theories.
We can go to Google and find an image.
And then we can simply paste it in here just clicking this button at the top and then you can paste
it in like just out of a popular YouTube or something.
And you don't want to live with your thumbnails but you just want them to be shocking so people click
it.
And then I recommend like upping the brightness a little bit.
So just going adjustments brightness contrasts upping that a little bit.
So it's kind of more appealing for people to click so they can see exactly what's going on.
And then maybe upping the saturation a bit as well.
So as you can see that makes it a little bit more appealing to click on and then you can also add like
a red arrow right here using the shapes red arrows are a really good way to get people to want to click
your videos and then you can just pointed out them right there just like that.
Now if we really want to get people to click this.
Another thing we can do is put the arrow to like his cheek right there and then we can put like a tear
on his chin and as you can see we can put like a tear right there and then we can put like blue on it.
So it actually looks like one get dark blue like that and then see it looks really unrealistic.
So you can see if we zoom out it looks more realistic.
And you just want to make people want to click.
Now the goal here isn't to like deceive people.
We just want to make them want to click so they watch our video and then to save the thumbnail you just
go file save as and then I recommend saving it as a dot.
JP G.
JPG file because that's what YouTube recommends and then you just click OK and then flatten and then
your new custom thumbnail will be saved.