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How to Make a YouTube Custom Thumbnail Tutorial — Quick and Easy

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How to Make a YouTube Custom Thumbnail Tutorial — Quick and Easy

3,570,060 views October 31, 2016 9:34

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In brief

You’ll create eye-catching YouTube thumbnails using Canva’s free tools, ensuring bold colors, sharp text, and proper sizing (1920x1080) to boost your video’s appeal. This quick guide walks through design tweaks and enabling custom thumbnails—ideal for creators wanting to stand out without advanced graphic skills.

Key steps

  1. Download pre-shot images for your video’s thumbnail
  2. Open Canva and pick a free YouTube thumbnail template
  3. Boost contrast and saturation to make colors vibrant
  4. Upload and enable custom thumbnail in YouTube Studio

Questions & answers

Can I use this method for free?

Yes—Canva offers a free version for creating thumbnails.

Does this tutorial cover enabling custom thumbnails?

Yes, it includes steps to turn on custom thumbnails in YouTube.

Description from the creator

Custom YouTube Thumbnail Tutorial **** ⚡️Get Your Ultimate
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Download the free checklist with “19 Tips for Getting More Views and Subscribers on YouTube” at: videoinfluencers.net/19tips

How to make YouTube Custom Thumbnail Checklist:

1. Take pictures ahead of time for your video thumbnail
2. Use partner.canva.com/x9NWZd (thumbnail maker free)
3. Add extra contrast and saturation to your thumbnail to make the colors pop
4. Add your extra sharpening on the thumbnail picture
5. Make sure your text is readable (And use as few words as possible)
6. Check out this article from Google bout how to enable YouTube Custom Thumbnails support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431?hl=en

Pro Tip: YouTube Custom Thumbnail Size is 1920x1080

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VIDEO GEAR, LIGHTING AND LINKS (AND OTHER STUFF)

Video Gear Used For This Video:
** Camera - Canon 70D
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With a Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens
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** Microphone
RODE VideoMic Studio Boom Kit
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** Lighting
Prismatic 18" Halo Ring Light with Stand
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** Editing Software
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
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** USB Mic I Used During The Screen Capture Part
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DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission.

About this video:
In this video Sean Cannell from Video Influencers shares his custom youtube thumbnail tutorial with Canva, Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software. If you want to figure out how to make custom thumbnails on youtube for free, watch this short training video. Canva.com is my favorite free YouTube thumbnail maker and you can use it as a quick thumbnail creator. The video also covers how to how to turn on custom thumbnails and change thumbnail youtube. Inside of Canva you can create a custom thumbnail template and then create a custom thumbnail for your videos. Things change every year so check out this video if you want to figure out how to make custom thumbnails on youtube in 2016.
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Video Influencers published this 9:34 video tutorial on October 31, 2016. It has been watched 3,570,060 times on YouTube.

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