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hi guys this is Mikael
in this tutorial I will show you how to create an amazing
thumbnail for your YouTube videos using Photoshop
so lets go to File>New make sure to set the width to 1280
by 720 click OK
now lets mport our photo by dragging and droping into the program
click approve and create or lest draw a rectangle
using the rectangle tool
change the color to something darker like that
and select the text tool and type your game name
half life 2 let's make it a little bit bigger
by changing the size and change the color over the font
to white
now drop it to the middle of the rectangle and lets draw
another rectangle make it a little bit smaller change the colour
to white click OK
yes and lets type part 1 assuming that this is the part 1
of our game make it a little bit smaller
and change the colour to black
now lets drop it to the middle
of the rectangle and that's it let's make it
aligned to the center this one too
and lets make them all
aligned to the center that's good
now maybe we can drag them
a little bit down and we can tweak
them by a changing the opacity of the two rectangles to
80% and that's it this is your
thumbnail now lets go to File>Save As
make sure to select JPEG
in the formats change the name click save
yes and select maximum
in the quality click OK and that's it
this is your amazing thumbnail for your YouTube videos
make sure to watch my tutorial on how to
upload a thumbnail to your YouTube videos and see you next time