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00:00 In this video I'm going to teach you how to make a custom YouTube thumbnail, so
you've got to tune in
00:12 Hey Its Matt Ensor here and this is Matt TV the place where we help you create
the business & lifestyle you deserve, thanks for checking out the video. Are you ready
to make one of those pimped YouTube custom thumbnails, that make your videos stands out
of all those video out there and pretty much make your channel rocking, well let’s take
a look of how we do it. On to my screen
00:36 To start off we want to go to the YouTube video that we are going to create the thumbnail
for, scroll down and select the video that you want to use. In this case I'm going to
do the how to get more views on YouTube, now what we want to do is find a place in the
video for a still shot, we want a shot that is rich rocking and full of colour and we
just want to go to that point in the video - I think I'm really connected with people
through this still shot. What you need to do next is make it a full screen and then
we just want to screen shot the page, if you a windows user just press the print screen
button or if you’re a Mac user command shift 4 - save it, how I do that on windows is copy
and paste to paint, (cut the image)
01:28 After we have done that we want to come over to pixlr, so pixlr.com - Pixlr is one
of the leading online image editors, click the pixlr editor, create a new image and give
the image a new name - I'm going to call this image more views. For presets you want to
scroll down a click movie 720p - this is the perfect size for the image we are going to
create, YouTube recommends 1280 by 720 pixels and that what we have here, its already done
for you it is great stuff.
02:09 Click the ok button, open the image next come over to background, pull that into
the original view, I just want to scroll out a little bit as well, next we want to come
up here and click free transform this allows us the adjust the size of the image - see
how big it is and it’s just fitting into this little space, hold down shift will maintain
the size ratio - we just want to move that image in here, see how its looking alot more
cleaner, you just want to position it to a point where your really happy with it and
it fits perfectly into the space.
02:48 We just want to add some text to the equation and yes we do want to apply the changes,
click the text then we just want to click a place on the screen. Now we want to put
the title of the video or really eye catchi9ng verbature, How to get more views on YouTube.
Now I'm just going to move that down a little bit ok. We can select the style of text, I
want to select something old fashioned - let make our text a little bit bigger as well,
stand out from the crowd, pretty big - select the style, I always like to bold, now you
can select the colour of your text - lets go for something funky I like the lime green
and then we just want to positio0n that in a Google place - How to get more on YouTube
haaaha.
03:36 Now that I’m happy with that I just want to click ok, we just want to come over
here and add a little bit of shadow - clicking on the layer styles - click shadow select
the colour, now I think that’s pretty cool, you can play around with the outer glow the
inter glow once you are satisfied, come up to files and click the save button - you can
save this one as a JPEG or PNG, I like jpeg it’s a little more compact, save that your
desktop, now let’s upload that image.
04:09 But just a little tip before we go on you will need to become a YouTube partner
to create a YouTube custom thumbnail - I’ve got a little link here click that one and
all you need to do is have an account which is 30 days old, to be in good stand a verify
it pretty much
04:32 But now back to the important stuff, come over to YouTube we want to click info
and settings - usually you’ll have a custom thumbnail here, as I’ve already uploaded
one, we just want to click change image, that’s uploading.
04:50 It would be so good to hear from you, how did you go with creating a YouTube thumbnail,
send me a link to the video I'd love to check it out - just leave a comment below and I’ll
get right back to you
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05:23 Thank you so much for tuning in Matt TV this is the place where we help you take
action and create the business and lifestyle you deserve - & there we go we have that hot
ready to go thumbnail - good stuff