 Hello everyone and welcome back to another exciting video. Today I'll be showing you how to make an awesome looking thumbnail with your smartphone. Having a great looking thumbnail is important to get people to click on your video. I create my thumbnails using a larger camera and a photo editing software but you don't necessarily need all that gear to make an eye-catching thumbnail. You can use something as simple as your phone especially when you're starting out creating thumbnails can be overwhelming at least for me it was. So in this video I wanted to guide you through a simple process that you can take to shoot better thumbnails and we will be editing the images using the free version of InChat which is available for iOS and Android users. By the way I will be using the thumbnail I made for this video as an example. So before you start taking out your phone you want to think about what you want to capture in your thumbnail. For this thumbnail I wanted myself to hold a phone pointing towards the camera because I thought it would fit well with the topic of today's video. I also used a white background on the phone screen so that I can place a youtube logo on it. You also want to think about your text and where you want to position it in your thumbnail. I usually like my thumbnails without text but I will show you how you can add text to your thumbnails. As for the background you can use plain walls or just anything that isn't too distracting especially if you want to add text to your thumbnail. You want the audience to focus on what's relevant in the image. Next is to set up the camera. I'm currently using the iPhone 12 Pro Max but you can also do it with an android phone the principles are the same. I'll be shooting in landscape mode which is a 16 by 9 aspect ratio. I will position the camera so that I have myself in the frame and because I have the Apple watch I can easily use it as a monitor. I have set it to portrait mode to have the background blurred out. This creates a better separation between the subject and the background. The timer is set to three seconds so that I can position myself while the countdown starts. Keep in mind that if you want to add text to your thumbnail make sure to leave some room for it. From here on you keep repeating the process until you're satisfied with the picture you want. So once you shot your thumbnail we're going to edit it in in shot. Open up in shot and I'm going to select the photo that I like best. The first thing I do is I head over to canvas and I'm going to change the aspect ratio to 16 by 9 and I'm also going to zoom in all the way and I'm also going to position the image downwards a bit like that. Then I'm going to hit the check mark and I'm now going to color correct and color grade the image. So I'm going to head over to filter and select adjust and I'm going to increase the brightness to around three and I'm also going to add some contrast around four and I'm also going to make the image look a bit warmer. So I'm going to increase that as well and I also want to get rid of the greenish tint. So I'm going to move the slider to the right just to reduce some of the greenish tint. I'm also going to add a little bit of saturation not too much because when shooting photos with the standard app it already looks pretty saturated. I'm then going to head over to curves. I'm going to lift up the shadows like so at the check mark and what I'm also going to do is add a little bit of sharpening not too much to around 10. That looks good and here's the before and after looks way better. So I'm now going to add a filter to the image. I'm going to head over to filter and below you have different presets. I have the full version of in-shot but if you just want to purchase a package it costs like one or two dollars or so. And my favorite one is the cinema 01 which gives the image an orange and teal look and I'm going to reduce the intensity to around 20. That looks great. Here's the before and after. Awesome. I'm now going to add the YouTube logo on to the phone screen and to do that I'm going to head over to Google. I'm going to type in YouTube PNG and I'm going to select this one over here tap hold on it and download image and now it's saved to my camera roll. I'm going to move over to in-shot. I'm now going to head over to sticker and to the very left I can choose camera roll and I'm going to select this YouTube PNG icon. So a PNG is an image without a background basically and I'm now going to reduce the size of it and I'm going to position it right over here. Make sure it's centered. So okay I'm now going to add text to the image. So I'm going to head over to text and I'm going to name it perfect thumbnail. So I'm first going to write in perfect. Hit the check mark and I'm going to position it up here. I'm going to add another text called thumbnail and I'm going to position that right below it and I'm also going to increase the size so that people can see it better and I'm also going to increase the size of the perf of this one. Move it over to the middle like so and I'm also going to turn it a bit just slightly. I think this looks great. I'm just going to reduce the size a bit. So I'm now going to export the image. I'm going to click the upper right icon and it exports it to the camera roll. So I'm going to head over to the camera roll and here it is. Looks really nice and to upload it on YouTube. If you have YouTube studio you can do this pretty easily. Head over to it right here and I'm going to select videos and I can for example change this thumbnail over here. I'm going to select this video and I'm going to hit this pencil up here and I can just select the pencil again and then tap on change and then select the thumbnail you want to change and apply it. So there you have it. You have a perfect thumbnail shot and edited on your smartphone. Alright guys so this simple step process is a great way to create thumbnails on your smartphone and getting people to click on your video. If this was helpful make sure to leave a thumbs up and if you're new to this channel make sure to subscribe so that I can keep creating these awesome tutorials for you guys. By the way we just hit 40,000 subscriber which is insane and I want to thank every single one of you for supporting this channel and helping me keep growing. I can't say how thankful I am to have helped so many of you and I get a ton of message and I try my best to reply to all of your messages but if you need more help I recently created a private Facebook group which is called smartphone filmmaking where you can ask questions share your work with others and get feedback. So if you're interested there is a link below. We'd love to see you there. Now if you're new to smartphone filmmaking don't miss out on my free smartphone filmmaking guide that will help you find the right tools to get started. Other than that thank you so much for watching. Have a great day and I will see you in the next video.