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How To Create YouTube Video Thumbnails

Having a YouTube Channel is very much easier than writing a good article. Since the modern technology is knocking at every door for every youngsters and the aged to live their lives as a fulfillment of their dreams.

Almost every one is now on YouTube and ready to share their experiences, stories, events, programs, business, tricks, talents and much more. However, to be a successful person on YouTube and to get more traffic to your videos you need to create a good and attractive video thumbnail apart from the appealing headings.

There are different applications for Smartphone to create a video thumbnail which are available in Play Store. You can easily create it with the help of these apps. The drawback is, you cannot design more thumbnails apart from the preset themes. Moreover, you cannot remove the watermark  unless you purchase the app.

How to create one let’s get started. First of all you need to be creative in other words, you need to have a good and creative ideas before designing. Then, you can use any photo editing software provided you know to measure the size of the thumbnail. I personally love to use Adobe Photoshop for photo editing since, it is the perfect and professional program. I would like to recommend this software for your better editing.




Open Photoshop and then create a new file. Set a perfect size for your video thumbnail by giving a Width 45.16 cm Height 25.4 cm and a resolution 72 or 100.

Now it depends on how you can actualize your ideas in the form of a graphic design. Remember to select a good range of colours and make sure that you apply the best match between the text and the background image.

Once you have completed your design you can now save the file to different extension like .jpg, .jpeg, .png, or .gif.

After everything is completed you can upload your video thumbnail from your PC or Smartphone.