So now that I know what still images I’m going to use, I’m going to go back to Canva. In this case, I’m going to use the one right here with the scratching of the head. Some of them pulling some funny faces, pointing at things, just giving me some options to use in the edit.
As an example, after wrapping up a recording, I did a few poses to the camera. Now, before we get into this I just want to share with you the importance of actually capturing some still images or awesome frames of your video while you’re recording your video for the specific purpose of using these for an eye catching video thumbnail. So we go to uploads and we go to upload an image or video. We want to bring in a still image, which we captured whilst we were recording the video specifically for the purpose of the thumbnail. Now of course, Canva as always, will give you lots of different templates that you can use as a starting point, where in this case, we’re going to start from scratch.
This will give you a custom canvas size of 1280 x 720 pixels, which is ideal for YouTube. First of all, you’re going to want to create a new design and choose the YouTube thumbnail template. So let’s head on over to to get started.
So I’m going to walk you through how to use the free version of online graphic design software Canva to create your custom thumbnails and make them look awesome. For non graphic designers out there, it can often be a real struggle to quickly and easily create eye-catching custom thumbnail designs without getting bogged down in complicated software like Photoshop. It’s the difference between someone clicking play on your video and scrolling right past getting that critical clickthrough rate, which is so important in YouTube’s algorithm and actually getting your videos watched. If you’re doing anything on YouTube, you know the importance of getting your YouTube custom thumbnail right. In this article, I’m going to share with you how to create an awesome video custom thumbnail using just Canva for FREE. So definitely don’t use that auto-generated thumbnail and don’t muck around with Photoshop. When it comes to YouTube we all know how important that video thumbnail is.
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