Youtube Thumbnail

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You know how they say that first impressions matter? Well, your thumbnail is your YouTube first impression. It is important to make your thumbnails as engaging as possible while also using your thumbnail to tell a potential viewer what the video will be about.

Because YouTube is primarily a visual platform where people watch videos, viewers will look at thumbnails before they read the title of your video. You want people to be engaged by your thumbnail immediately. In this post we will give you a few tips and tricks to make your thumbnails garner views.

Find a consistent thumbnail template at stick with it.

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You don’t need to be a professional graphic designer to make a creative thumbnail. In fact, you can use Canva and pick a pre-made template and use that. So the creative portion of making a thumbnail does not need to be difficult.

What can get tricky is to make sure the images you select are all lighted the same way. You might need some image editing software to make all of your thumbnail images look the same. You can use PicMonkey to edit your thumbnail images so they all look similar or you can use Photoshop or even VSCO on your mobile device.

Another trick to ensure your thumbnail images all look the same is to actually take a picture versus using a screen shot from your video. A photo will be more crisp overall and also higher res so you can manipulate the image better.

Secondly, if you use text on your image (and you should, but we will discuss that later) make sure you use the same color scheme and consistent fonts.

The account featured in the screen shot above, has a great thumbnail strategy. She uses crisp, clean, consistent images as well as a consistent, though not identical, font scheme.

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