

You could just simply make it text and just bypass this step. If you don’t have a green screen picture or if you don’t have an image that you want to use. What I’ll do is now hit enter, pop in my picture. I’m going to hit on over to my picture area, I’m just going to drag that in here right there. Maybe that’s the first thing I want to do. What I could do in fact is now put in the thumbnail image. You can see right here we have one layer, that’s a background layer. Here as I look into this canvas, you have to kind of have an idea of what you want. As I zoom out and start looking at this canvas, now we need to start filling this canvas in with some detail. In fact both of them will work that is the standard size, that’s the one we’re going to use right now.Īs you can see here now, I have my canvas that’s up and it’s white. You could do 1920×1080 if you want to be ahead of the game for HD thumbnails. Here 1280×720 is the standard youtube thumbnail size that they recommend.

Once you’ll do that you’ll be able to set up a canvas. The first thing that I need to do is set up the canvas which would be going into file > new or hitting CTRL+ N on your keyboard. We’re not going to go into the intricate details of every tool and how to use Photoshop but I’ll give you some insights of how I’m putting elements together and creating a Youtube thumbnail for my videos. I’m going to share with you a step by step how to make this. And it will really increase your potential to working within your business and creating a lot of design elements and just a great tool to have all around specially if you’re working online. It’s just a handful of dollars per month for the creative cloud version. It’s not too difficult it’s just putting together a few little elements and if you have a subscription to Photoshop on the web there. If you don’t know how to make a Youtube thumbnail I want to share with you how to make this Youtube thumbnail using Photoshop. Hey this is Sasha and in this week’s video what I want to share with you is how to make this exact Youtube thumbnail.
