 Here we go. Here we go. Here we go What is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q channel? This is a new segment I want to call pro tip Tuesdays pro tips. It'll be on Tuesdays. Boom. I like that I like the sound of pro tip Tuesdays with Johnny Q I like it the first pro tip Tuesday of the year how to upload a thumbnail to YouTube Okay, so before I upload or make anything regarding my thumbnail What I like to do is take a high quality picture of what I'm doing in the moment So this is what it is before and boom actor. I've made all the final edits. I like the edit It's gonna work as my thumbnail. So let's move on There's two ways of doing this the first way is this you can right click Export these are my settings image format is JPEG I will go right into my desktop so I can actually just see it on the desktop and it's easy to find Quality is 100 color space sRGB Resolution 300 pixels per inch and that's all I do and then I finally export it and boom There is my picture here is the thing with YouTube thumbnails They have to be under 2 megabytes. I believe and if you press command I This picture is 6.7 megabytes. That is a big picture for YouTube So we want to do is resize it to less than 2 megabytes You can either do one of two things you can either export it like what I just did here and then open it in Photoshop or Illustrator or You can also right click the same image thing You can actually edit in Photoshop, which you can do that as well What I will do is is I will open up Adobe Illustrator because I use Adobe Illustrator for my thumbnails. I'll create a new file This is where you have to resize your actual canvas 1080 by 720 and that's the actual specifications for a high-quality thumbnail for your videos with a 1080 pixels Height would be 720 and I'll then I'll go create boom and then this is what I do I simply just drag Command tab go to Illustrator boom drop and as you can see it's way bigger than the actual Canada size So what I'll do is resize edge to edge. I will bring the edge to the next edge here and boom That is my picture. It's kept its quality higher res photo and a 1080 by 720 canvas size image format thumbnail Next what I want to do is go to file then we'll go to export export as then I will say B-roll Thumbnail and oh Thumbnail if I can spell correctly as a PNG I'll save it to the desktop as like I did before I will export it And this is where the resolution really takes place if you set resolution to medium 150 ppi it will be over 2 megabytes same thing goes with high of 300 ppi So what you want to do is screen 72 ppi optimal image size for thumbnails then you press ok And it will be exporting and then you'll see the B-roll thumbnail PNG now when I press command I You'll see up here in the right hand corner right top hand corner 666 Kikobytes kilobytes Kikobytes and then you go to YouTube You go to the upload tab you upload your video your drag and drop for your desktop or your folder whatever you kept your video in and then See how it says maximum file sizes 2 megabytes good thing we filed our big massive file to under 2 megabytes So what a custom thumbnail and then you'll go to the B-roll thumbnail Whatever you chose to call it now it is in the red box and that means it is good to go which means you have a successful Successful thumbnail upload and from there you can fill in your title and your description your tabs and all that stuff It will actually work from there. So boom there you have it I hope this helps you in your journey of YouTube creation videos if you already know this good for you if you don't I'm glad you Learned something hopefully you learned something from this video. I hoped it helped you I will catch you next time on the Johnny K channel. Peace