 What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today I am simply gonna show you guys how I create my YouTube thumbnails using a site called Canva. Let's get right into this So I'm just gonna switch over to the site here and show you guys on my screen Exactly what I'm doing step by step. So as you can see we are logged into Canva on my accounts Now that is the first thing I recommend you doing if you're gonna be creating thumbnails using this site because They will save the templates that you create so you can make future thumbnails and keep everything on your channel Consistent which is a huge save for me. So right here I'm just gonna maneuver down and here was where your designs are gonna be saved and all I do is click see all and then All the thumbnails that I create are here So as you guys can see there's sums for the games played in finished series that I do recent game pickups the puzzle videos that I've done Flipping for profit series. I do here on the channel. So everything that I do my thumbnails even my hockey cards once I try to keep everything Consistence with the designs of my thumbnail, which is a huge time saver and I'm glad that canva has this feature Now I'm just gonna go into a generic one that I created for the purpose of this video here So here we go. Everything is loading up on canva. It is just a plain Background right now for the thumbnail the best thing about canva is that you can create not only YouTube thumbnails But you can create your YouTube background Facebook posts Instagram posts Virtually anything that you want to create for online for anything on social media or even like anything in general that you Want to create a cool design for even posters brochures things like that You can do it with canva. You just have to select the right format this right here What I automatically selected for my videos is the exact size that I need or that you need for your YouTube thumbnails So right now, we're just gonna go through the left tabs here Up first is your templates, which is something that I don't normally use You can go in and look and select a template that's already created and try to work around that There is the uploads tab, which is your uploads that you uploaded from your YouTube from your laptop story and That's literally anything that you want to input into your thumbnail or make your thumbnail arounds We have photos, which is one that I use highly for anything Including the background normally I go under the photos tab instead of the backgrounds tab because the backgrounds tab It's mostly plain colored or normally I can't find what I'm looking for So I'll go under photos elements Which is really cool. So anything you want to put on your Thumbnail like for example the like button or anything like that a smiley face even anything that you want to do and put on to your Thumbnail is on elements. So even if I want to put text over top of a square or something like that It's just matter of putting the shape there and putting the text over top of it to make it blend in or make it really cool and creative You have your text which I'll get into in a second's different text formats and things like that music which I don't normally touch Videos which I don't use at all Background which like I said, I'll do photos instead and that is everything on the side panel So first I'm going to start off with the background for this thumbnail Just to show you guys how I do that background and what I start with now normally I'll start with the backgrounds and then I'll end up changing it if I want to make it work around everything else that I've already added to the thumbnail so I'm just going to start with one that I've already used recently and Like I showed you get just here You just go to the corner and click and drag or if you just want to use the photo and resize it You can put it here You can crop it use effects filters and things like that adjust it easily and do it like that But normally I'll use the photos like I just showed you in the background I'll just click and drag it to a corner it automatically puts it the full Size of the thumbnail which is really helpful. I like this one more So we're going to stick with that one next is adding text and that you just click the text tab And I always just click add a heading the top one here But you can go and use any of these ones down here click and drag and you can change the text in them with the Creative aspects to it now here. I'm just going to change the text. Let's do that You just go up here. You highlight it go up here You click and I'm just going to change it to just the basic headline right now or the basic fonts We're going to change the size of the text with this tab here You can also just click and drag the corners to make it bigger or smaller Changing the color is here. I'm just going to leave it white Just like that now some text you can bold you can use italics This one here you can underline But some of the other ones you can use some of the other features here now your alignment is here So let's say I have it like that right now It's centered but I can change it to the beginning Center the ends normally. I'll just leave things centered You can do both Bolton points by just clicking this change it to one or taking it away now with anything that you add to your thumbnail There is these parts over here that you have to know so the garbage can is to delete the text They highlighted text there is this one here to duplicate if you click it It will duplicate whatever is highlighted not just text this works for photos as well This one here is changes the transparency Just like that and then position then you if you have multiple things here and Change this one to the black just to show you guys clicking back where we'll put it back one and Putting it clicking it again. We'll put it to the very back So depending on how many different layers that you have on your thumbnail this is a great tool to know how to use and And the last part for text that you might want to know which is really cool is under effects So what I usually use I keep it at none. You can change it up here and click the different ones Like I said, I leave that at none But here I always like outlining my text and I'll do it like this and you'll click that and now you see right here It's outlined But instead of that, let me just backtrack here I'm gonna double the text Gonna leave that white this one here. I'm gonna go under effects Sorry under effects go to hallow you can change the thickness of the outline and then here I'm gonna change this text to black and one of you add it over top You basically just did an outline of your text Which this is a fairly new feature that Canva has included on the site before you cannot do any outlines on the text Yourself I was forced to have to add an elements of a square or rectangle and Stretch it the full length of the text I was using and putting it behind the text now I can actually have Outlined text which is really amazing and I'm glad they added that now to upload your own images You just go under upload upload media click device and then it's gonna come up this tab here so what I'm gonna upload is just the Canva logo and Once it finishes loading here this Bible can be completes now in the process that it's doing that you can still click and drag it Again, if you click it in the corner It's going to just snap it the full image so you're gonna lose your background Just click it off in the center here. You can resize it do everything here. You can flip it horizontally vertically Anything that you need you can crop it if there's a part of the image that you want to crop out You can do that which is a huge time saver in my opinion in a huge feature that I love and you can just add it In the corner or add it anywhere you want which is really cool So that is how you upload your own content So if you go on Google images if the stock photos on Canva are not good enough for you or stuff that you don't want to use Google images go to the two ones that have a transparent background find what you need and you can upload it this way now I'm actually gonna go under elements and show you guys this fairly quick So recently I've used this one again. You just click and drag it. It won't snap it to the full size But there's that if you want lines So if you want to do your own underline, you can do it like this change the size Go here change the color which is in the top right corner or sorry top left corner And you can do your own own underlining you can actually add shapes Which like I said before it had the background feature here where you can do your own outlines I was forced to do this all the time before and then I'll put it Sorry, I doubled it there. I would put it to the back like this So backward backward backward, and then I would change it to Likely black or something like that So a lot of my videos used to have this as it so instead of outlining them I would just have a square box behind it So that is really cool that you can add these elements and do different things I usually make really cool designs with it if it's just basic text and I need something that will catch the eye I'll do something a little bit graphic with the shapes and everything Try to make everything stand out a little bit more So the last part is to save your thumbnail onto a laptop So you can use whenever you want when you want to upload your video And that is simply right here in the top right corner the button that says download you're gonna click it and Then you're going to choose where it's gonna download right now for me It's gonna just go under the downloads option on my laptop And then you're gonna click here where it says download and it's going to download it now Sometimes there might be a delay in downloading it if an image that you've uploaded is taking a little bit of time Also, you have to remember there's certain images that will not and also certain sizes that will not be able to successfully be uploaded To canva, but this is a simple basic run through of how to Make thumbnails using canva again It's very very simple if you guys want me to do a more in-depth feature and of how to create thumbnails Or just in general how to use canva Let me know down below, but this is a basic run through of how I create my thumbnails using the site again Fairly fairly simple to use doesn't take in my opinion too much time But certain thumbnails take a little bit more time because of course I want to be a little bit more creative and try to come up with a little bit more ideas to Do for certain thumbnails, but definitely an easy run through that's anybody that is just starting out even a small youtuber Can get the understanding and knowledge they need to create their thumbnails using canva If you guys have any questions with canva, let me know down in the comments below I just wanted to do a simple quick tutorial with canva to show you guys How I use it and the simple things that I use with the site. I'm gonna leave this video here Hope you guys enjoyed it. Please take care. Peace