 Well, hello my friends and welcome back to my channel today I figured I would show you guys how I make a thumbnail for my channel I get this question quite a bit and I'm not a technology channel I probably do this the complete wrong way But this is how I get my thumbnails for my channel to work well for me And I like the way they look so I figured I would share with you guys since I've had this question over and over Throughout the years like I said before I'm not a tech channel Whatsoever, but this is just how I create my own and let's get right into it. So this is my iPhone I will link up in a card somewhere my app Organization or like how I organize my apps. I'm not sure which order I am going to upload them in but I am pretty sure That I am going to do this video a second So anyways, like I said in the previous video if you watched it, this is my photography Folder here So what I like to do is there are two apps that I really like to use especially for my like I like to call them hand videos So these are my kind of overhead shot videos. So the first one I like to use is after light Let's see here. And this is the Photo that I took what I like to do also is I will just take a screenshot on my MacBook Pro In the file that I upload if that makes sense or the file that I download is it download? Yeah, it's download. See I'm not a tech channel you guys So I just take a screenshot of this on my Mac and then I airdrop it to my phone And then that's how I get my image and so clearly it's upside down right now. So when after light I take this little guy right here, and then I can spin it around using this tool So now it is the correct orientation With this little guy over here. See I'm clearly not a tech channel. I don't know what I'm talking about I need the 16 by 9 which is the standard size for a YouTube thumbnail And then I can make this really tiny I can make it bigger whatever I want to do So my main motivation always is to clip out It's kind of hard to see but clip out all of the like surrounding like Mac stuff Like my bottom bar and the top bar sometimes I need to wiggle this around a little bit But I purposely angled this so that's fine It has a nice little grid in here, which shows me what's kind of in the center and things like that So I like this orientation. I like the way it looks already So I did a little check and then it creates the image for me just like that when I go into this little button over here This is going to be all of the imagery so I can clarify it I can make it, you know However, I want to make it if I decide I don't want anything done to this I can just hit this little X and it'll go back to the original So as for the brightness, I usually brighten up stuff quite a bit So I'm gonna brighten this up to I don't know. I think like Like 20 looks good to me I usually like to start with it a little bit brighter because there's a couple of other Functions in here that I play with as well So the contrast I do play with and that's gonna help out that screen just a little bit The screen is really hard. I mean clearly. I'm not a tech channel as I said before but the clarity and the saturation Which now I'm going into saturation right now Really helps with that So it kind of makes it a little bit, you know easier to see and then exposure I do quite a bit of exposure because I like Gosh, I don't know it's so weird like I never really do this with like a phone image and the phone image is kind of weird-looking Usually I do like about 10 on the exposure I'll just keep it at 10 and let's see what happens and then I run all the way to the end here And then I do sharpening as well So let's do sharpening and I do that quite a bit and I really like the way that looks especially on the hand videos and Let me go right back to The exposure again and see what it looks like after I sharpen it Yeah, I kind of still like the original way it looked So we're gonna go with that usually I like this a lot whiter and brighter But since I have like a phone there, it's not gonna get any whiter So anyway now I'm done with this. So we're gonna say done and we're gonna save it and Then now I go into Fanto Which is the way that I lay text over my thumbnails So I'm gonna go into my little camera icon and I'm gonna go to photo albums because I already saved what I wanted And it's right here. So perfect and then you can apply different filters over this stuff I'm usually not a fan of doing that because I've already played with it enough So I'm gonna go with my original image once in a while I do play with it a little bit But and then you just kind of click on the image and then you've right you put add text So here's what I do and this is probably like a really janky way to do it, but I don't care So I use a first of all I use just a little period And then I create about three to four spaces and then I write my text over it So I'm going to write something about dating apps because when I was filming the video It was like almost in every category I felt like there was a dating app and like none of them really worked for me So I kind of was kind of complaining a little bit about the dating apps and I don't know It's just kind of funny. So I'm gonna write so many Dating apps Exclamation point and then I'm gonna do a couple more Spaces and then another period and I'll explain why I'm gonna do the periods in just a moment So another thing I like to do is I like to capitalize all of the words that I use on the thumbnail image I don't know why I feel like it just looks better for me. I don't know you guys might think differently That's okay So anyway now that I have the wording the way I want it That's great and the font you can choose any kind of font you want right now I'm using Anton that one comes with this app There are also other fonts that you can download because I've downloaded several of them over the years But I mean right now I'm using one that's already in the Fonto app. So I just say done And clearly this is a way too big So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go into style and we're gonna go into stroke which stroke means is that we are going to use a color that's gonna go kind of around the text and I'm gonna use Hmm, I don't know. Let's see what color should I use? Maybe I'll use like an orangeish color and then you can kind of play with it the width I usually like about 15 ish or so and I'll show you what it looks like in just a moment because it's probably looking a little weird right now And then you can kind of play with the color to see what you want Actually, this yellow kind of looks really nice So we're gonna stick with yellow and then we're gonna be oh, we're not gonna be done with that yet I'm sorry. See I'm not a tech channel y'all and then as for the background I go with white and then as for this alpha It's at one. So we are going to make that a little bit more transparent and I just kind of Brush it down just a little bit as you can see. I don't know if you guys can see that really well But um, yeah, so usually I'm around like 90 90 to 80 somewhere in there So I like I like the image to peek through just a little bit But not to have it so harsh harshly white as for the size you go into the little size button So I'll make that a little bit smaller here and then I still need to make it a whole lot smaller Let's keep going. Whoop whoop whoop. All right. Oh and keep going again And keep going keep it going All right, so now I'm about where I need to be on this So then I usually make a determination if I want it to be angled or if I want it to be straight on This one I kind of like straight on to be honest And if I want to move this I can kind of bump it up move it over And things like that. So here's the reason why I do the little periods on the side is because if I don't my White background will not it'll only go to the very edge of the text. It won't go further So those get basically deleted or it doesn't show up on the image when I save this So like I said before I kind of like the way that this looks straight on I know I've had actually a couple of questions as to like how I decide What's gonna be tilted to the right or to the left or straight on I just kind of look at it and go Yeah, that looks good. So that's that's all I do So anyways what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to kind of pull this down just a little bit And yeah, I kind of like the way that that looks actually I want to go up just a little bit because if you can see there's like a little Fox ear right there and I want to kind of cover that up because it just looks a little funny and then It looks pretty centered, but I do want to move it just a little bit and sometimes when you use your finger It doesn't like work really well So I'm gonna just push this over just a little bit and that looks good to me Another thing you can do is you can add other images and things like that to your thumbnail So I don't need to do that, but I'm gonna show you how to do it So you just kind of click this a little left hand button. You add an image. I usually go to my favorites That's usually where all of my like Specific like store images are at so say I wanted to use like my own image I could and then I can make this a different size like the FD you know thing But I'm not gonna use it today. So I am going to go and remove that so but you can't put it on there That's how I do it for like my grocery store halls and like things like that So anyway, but I'm gonna go into ad text again And then I am gonna go into my emojis because I want to put in like a little kind of dating thing Because I was just kind of laughing hysterically about that. So anyway, I think I'm going to put in Maybe this one. I don't know. Let's see what it looks like. Oh, that looks kind of funny on here So I don't know. I don't like that one. So let's go back into text Maybe I'll do like a little Kissy thing. Isn't there like a little kid? Yeah, here we go. Here's like a little kissy thing. Okay We could do this So you can make it bigger you can Tilt it so you can spin it around, you know, whatever you want to do. So I think I'm gonna spin it like this Maybe a little bit more tilt that away perfect Let's see. Let's see if there's any other Things that I want to put in here and a lot of times to be honest I already kind of know what I'm going to do with my thumbnails, but not always so I Don't know. You just you just never know how the wind is going to strike you. I think I'm gonna use this one All right, so that this is a funny one. Okay. Good deal. All right I'm gonna make this little guy a little bit bigger. Normally. I don't I mean, I don't always use emojis I do really like using emojis. I feel like it's kind of more interesting for me to look at I don't know like as a consumer of content. I kind of like that a little bit Let's see here Let me move this a little bit more Let's see Now I'm just kind of messing with things Nope, all right, and this is where like if things are close together you kind of get not in trouble, but you know it kind of Messes with you a little bit. Okay over to the right. I don't have anything and that kind of doesn't bother me anymore There was so much like negative space in between the two that it kind of bugged me, but I think that this looks good I don't know. I mean, it's kind of like a laughing person and then like also like the kid like the little lips are kind of Referencing the so many dating apps So anyway, but I figured this is kind of what I'm gonna go with If I did wasn't showing my phone and it was clearly like technology phone video I would have put an icon of a phone, but it's kind of redundant I feel like in this video or I mean I should say in this thumbnail But anyway, that's how I do it and then also once I'm done I will hit that little thing and I will save my image and it's saved and then Then it gives me an ad but that's all right And then all I do is I just airdrop it right to my computer as I'm uploading and then as I'm uploading I put it on my YouTube thumbnail So now it's in my camera and it's right here and that's what it looks like. So that's how I create my thumbnails I hope you guys enjoyed the video clearly I'm not a technology person and there's probably so many other things and better ways to make these But this is just how I do it and it works well for me if you guys are youtubers or create thumbnails Let me know in the comments down below how you create your thumbnails and what apps might work really well for you I have considered buying Photoshop and learning that but you know It's so darn expensive and I like the way that my thumbnails look just the same So I can't justify the expense, but anyway, let me know how you guys use yours I'd love to know in the comments down below if you like the video. Make sure to give it a thumbs up Can't get it in the frame. Here we go. Make sure to give it a thumbs up. Feel free to subscribe You can always hit the little red bell notification If you want to be notified when I upload new content and I hope to see y'all in the next video Bye guys. 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