WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:00.690 All right guys. 00:00.690 --> 00:04.530 Now we're going to talk about how to create a thumbnail for your YouTube videos. 00:04.590 --> 00:08.610 So I use a software called Paint Doughton that I'll leave a link where you can download the software 00:08.640 --> 00:09.480 completely free. 00:09.480 --> 00:12.260 So once you have paint on the open this will be the default screen. 00:12.270 --> 00:16.710 We're going to want to change the image size and to do this we just click image canvas size and then 00:16.710 --> 00:19.980 we can change it to 12 18 by 720. 00:19.980 --> 00:23.870 This is the default size for all YouTube thumbnails and they can just click OK. 00:24.000 --> 00:27.960 And then I recommend zooming out a little bit so you can see what the thumbnail will look like like 00:27.960 --> 00:33.000 on the actual YouTube page because this thumbnail is usually going to be pretty small so you can just 00:33.000 --> 00:34.370 make it about that size. 00:34.500 --> 00:38.460 And then sensus video that we're uploading is about YouTube or conspiracy theories. 00:38.460 --> 00:40.300 We can go to Google and find an image. 00:40.320 --> 00:44.520 And then we can simply paste it in here just clicking this button at the top and then you can paste 00:44.520 --> 00:47.530 it in like just out of a popular YouTube or something. 00:47.550 --> 00:51.330 And you don't want to live with your thumbnails but you just want them to be shocking so people click 00:51.330 --> 00:51.700 it. 00:51.840 --> 00:54.090 And then I recommend like upping the brightness a little bit. 00:54.090 --> 00:58.050 So just going adjustments brightness contrasts upping that a little bit. 00:58.050 --> 01:02.140 So it's kind of more appealing for people to click so they can see exactly what's going on. 01:02.250 --> 01:05.480 And then maybe upping the saturation a bit as well. 01:05.480 --> 01:10.680 So as you can see that makes it a little bit more appealing to click on and then you can also add like 01:10.680 --> 01:15.960 a red arrow right here using the shapes red arrows are a really good way to get people to want to click 01:15.960 --> 01:20.190 your videos and then you can just pointed out them right there just like that. 01:20.190 --> 01:22.180 Now if we really want to get people to click this. 01:22.200 --> 01:27.480 Another thing we can do is put the arrow to like his cheek right there and then we can put like a tear 01:27.480 --> 01:33.270 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. 01:33.270 --> 01:38.910 So it actually looks like one get dark blue like that and then see it looks really unrealistic. 01:38.910 --> 01:41.230 So you can see if we zoom out it looks more realistic. 01:41.310 --> 01:42.900 And you just want to make people want to click. 01:42.900 --> 01:45.260 Now the goal here isn't to like deceive people. 01:45.350 --> 01:50.040 We just want to make them want to click so they watch our video and then to save the thumbnail you just 01:50.040 --> 01:53.870 go file save as and then I recommend saving it as a dot. 01:53.890 --> 01:54.780 JP G. 01:54.870 --> 01:59.850 JPG file because that's what YouTube recommends and then you just click OK and then flatten and then 01:59.850 --> 02:01.780 your new custom thumbnail will be saved.