 Hello, welcome back to the happy hut. I'm Neil Mossy and I help as many people as possible to get ideas out of their heads and Out into the world to make as many people happy as possible One of the best ways of doing that is right here on YouTube if you are looking for how to Make a thumbnail for YouTube. I am I'm so sorry. I feel your pain I'm so sorry that you are at that stage in your YouTube being where You've realized that thumbnails are important and a thing I put it off for years Look at us a pair of unpaid google interns. I mean we're slaves. We're slaves to the youtube algorithm So so yeah, let's make our shackles and chains That bit more appealing. I'm going to show you some of the things that I use to make my YouTube thumbnails for free, but oh man. I I hate it. I hate making thumbnails Nobody likes making thumbnails. You've made a video. Isn't that enough? If you then got to upload it right so you're dealing with video done that and then you've got to write the description Done that words and now and now you've got to start editing images I mean the hard thing is I'm actually quite good at photoshop or the free equivalent gimp But I'm not going to get photoshop out to make a thumbnail I just want a place to just put the thumbnail in add some words and then get it out again and over the months and years I've I've managed to find a few tools and a few techniques to do that as as easily as possible And completely for no money as possible But one thing I do promise you hand on heart I will not show you how to make those videos where you look surprised in the thumbnail You know those really stupid thumbnails. They're really irritating thumbnails I'm not I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I promise you the broken jazz hands And look on shock thumbnail shot Actually, I'm gonna that is that is exactly the thumbnail that I am going to use on this video just to make a point So let's jump into into youtube. This is what the youtube studio Dashboard looks like and I've actually gone into the my last video as you can see YouTube offers you three completely Usable thumbnails. They're actually quite good at it I think there must be some beast like software that can detect smiles and can avoid frames where your eyes are closed And I actually really like this thumbnail in the middle That's the one I've selected but the first problem I had was that I actually want to add to that I want to add some words to it. I might even want to add another picture I could not work out how to export a thumbnail from youtube I finally did manage it, but it's a little little bit of a workaround If you have a cell phone or a mobile phone as we call it here in the uk The way that I export thumbnails from youtube any one of the three that they offer you is using this It's an app called whitey studio It's supposed to be the studio app for YouTubing and when you go in there you can click on the dashboard click on videos from that pull down menu and choose the video that you want to Play with it gives you lots of details about the video But up here if you click on the pen icon you can actually edit the video from the app There's a little tool in here, which is great if you go into the thumbnail There are the three thumbnails I don't know if you can see them there So if you choose the one that you want to export save it Select the one that you want and down there hit download thumbnail That downloads the thumbnail to your phone now if you go over to google photos There is the thumbnail ready for you in all its glory So all you need to do now is to go to google photos Download that onto your computer and use the software and that's what I'm going to use next Now the next tool that I use for free is something called spark on adobe.com So I'll put the link in the description if you type in spark.adobe.com Now I know I'm scared of using adobe products because man Do they like to hold you upside down and shake you around for money? But this I've been using this for about six months now. It's Completely free all you need to do is to set up an adobe.com account, which is free I use that on my dirty email. So they they can't spam me with marketing messages If you go into just the the opening page, you'll see you can use their templates the pre loaded templates So this is my dashboard here in spark to create a new thumbnail or a new project even see this plus Sign at the top of the page This is what will probably greet you when you go there for the first time you sign in for the first time And they offer you all these different templates, you know, there's a flyer or a slideshow But what they also offer are YouTube thumbnails. So if I click on that Down here on the right hand side. Look at all these pre Made youtube thumbnails that you can use so you could choose this one for instance Click create and you can change absolutely anything on this template. So this block of text here If you click on the the pencil icon again, click edit, you can change that to my thumbnail done You can make that bigger by dragging these Corners here and it just it just works it all out for you. It's really lovely You could change this picture at the back here. And that's what that's what we're going to do at the moment So I'm going to go to some thumbnails that I've made in the past So as you can see it saves as you go along, I'll probably delete that So I've developed a bit of a template for myself Sometimes it might have four pictures in there or one big picture and a block of text And I think that's what I'm going to go with for this latest video So what I'll do is I'll duplicate a thumbnail that I've already made And we'll call it transcribe thumbnail hit duplicate So it should have duplicated it here and it hasn't shown it on the dashboard But if I go into edit project Hopefully all the bits that I need will be there. There it is fantastic I want a block of text and I want the nice thumbnail that youtube have already chosen for me So firstly, I'll change the block of text. I want that to run along the bottom there And I can change this image and you can change the image on the template thumbnails that they give you So if I just click on the image and then I'll go up to replace Now what I'll do is I'll upload the photo that I downloaded from google photos because I downloaded it From the youtube studio app. I hope that makes sense I've gone into google photos and there is the thumbnail that youtube offered Which I liked and I'll click on download Back into spark if I hit upload photo, right? So now I am uploading The thumbnail picture there it is. I want to make this text smaller just so it runs along the bottom here So what I'll do is click edit and I'll change the words So we'll change this to something like transcribe for free. I want it big so it reads So I might put it in the middle or I could put it in the bottom Just put in the bottom there and it sort of works out all the proportions for you You can change anything that you want on the On the words so you can change the font. I prefer the one I've got you can change the colors You can change the size Or the line spacing and I've sometimes done that just to get more words in but it's a really brilliant resource To just be able to just sling in the words and slinging a picture and it saves as you go along. So now if I hit download So now that I've downloaded it I can now upload it as a thumbnail And there it is And that's it. It really is such an easy way to Just grab a thumbnail that youtube has offered Maybe manipulate it a little bit or add some extra pictures add some words Then download that image and then re-upload it as a thumbnail So I hope this video has helped give you some ideas for how to Export a thumbnail from youtube to give you somewhere to go for free to manipulate it add some text Maybe add any other images that you want to and then export and download that Image that you can then use as a thumbnail It's it's a little system that I've managed to use for a lot of videos now If you've reached this point in the video and it has helped why not give me a thumbs up Just to let me know that someone reached this point in the video And if you're feeling even kinder if you were to hit on the subscribe button That would just show me some love that I crave but also I'm craving subscribers Trying to get to a thousand subscribers probably exactly the same as you one day will be monetized you and me making thumbnails Little to no money, but in the meantime, good luck with your thumbnail creating I'll see you on the next video. 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