So Hello and welcome to this lecture and this lecture will be all about creation of a thumbnail so this
lecture will be fully on edited.
This is gonna be a raw process of creating a thumbnail so so you would understand every single process
that goes through this will be a bit a long lecture so stay put because we are going to create something
like that.
This is going to go up in this but I'm gonna show you how you can actually create a different thumbnails
for your videos.
So I'm gonna be creating in this lecture two different thumbnails one a visual thumbnail mainly me for
the gaming content for example if you're doing a gaming long plate or walk to show something like that.
And second we'll be on for any other videos for example and in my case I do my business type of video.
So whatever further ado let's just jump right into it so all the editing will be done in i pad.
So I do use a pad for my thumbnail editing.
So bear in mind that I use thumbnail not just I pad for not just for undulating but for video editing
as well so just know that I will be using application called Affinity photo use them pointing my mouse
right here I'm using my mouse just to for you to see where my point here is even though if I point my
finger you will still see where I do it but you will see all the process with my mouse movement.
The application is called Affinity photo it's a paid application available only for a pad but for the
max as well now on the computers if you want this and it is a very good application it is kind of like
a photoshop clone if you know how to use photoshop then you can.
Finally you can use affinity photo with ease and if you know how to.
If you don't want to use it in the photo all the things that I'm done I'm doing here can be easily applicable
to Photoshop as well.
So if any photo is a paid application it costs on a pad.
I think sometimes it cost ten dollars sometimes cost twenty twenty dollars depending on where did you
buy it.
I for example bought this for ten dollars but I know that it's usually go for 20 and on Mac I think
it costs fifty dollars but it is a one time fee and like Photoshop so it's a very good application.
I highly highly highly recommend this if you don't want to pay for the creative cloud on the adobe service
so let's just start at the creation of the thumbnail.
Let's go press plus we're going to create a new document and what we're going to do is we're going to
choose sides.
I'm choosing these some things from from here so just don't worry about that just read the numbers.
That's all the news you need to do we are going to create a canvas with two dimensions of eight to 12
A.D. by 720 but basically 720 AP DP We're going to increase this just for 300 because we want to make
it as clear Chris as possible.
This is not a very important but let's just do it for our purposes and let's make the BRAC round transparent.
We don't really need this but we'll still use this.
So without further ado religious press.
Okay.
And this will happen right here when I use my fingers as well.
Because I cannot use it to finger gestures on on on the iPad with a mouse.
And this is the canvas where we will be working another application that I use for an iPad which is
completely unnecessary or for any other computers because you basically have will have all the functionality
here as well.
It's basically helping me to not have a bunch of layers that just have everything that I need.
And the application is called a the VS Wrath which is of the moment of the recording of the video's
very new application.
And I use this just to have different photos available for myself just different assets available for
myself that I don't want to you don't want to save in every single thumbnail.
I usually in the past I will saving everything inside the layers and I had a bunch of bunch of bunch
of bunch a bunch of layers.
And right now I just don't need this because I will just use whatever the asset that I want for this
as you can see I have two different assets mainly the icons right here and my face is because I use
my faces in my thumbnails very very often.
And if you can do this I highly highly highly suggest you to do this because your face is kind of like
your brand and you are like your logo that nobody can copy and you can have this as your brand then
you will have your face on your thumbnails and pretty soon you will become recognizable and when people
see your face in the numbers they will know that this video is by you.
And if they liked your video in the past they just can go and just use this a as a reference that it's
a good video or not.
Let's just make it disappear for now because we don't need this.
And what we think of the first is what type of thumbnails that we want.
So I usually create something like that.
I have a some type of background.
It can be anything anything basically but as it should be like something like a type a brick wall for
example or just some like something that is very monotone and can be used as a background for this thing.
I'm gonna use on Splash.
Thankfully the offending photo has built in on splash so I can just go and search for some things and
within.
In your case you can go to and splash dot com and search photos were there because this is a completely
royalty free photos and it's a very good.
Alternatively you can use pixels or pics eBay or like pixels of camera pixel made that come thankfully
if any photo has everything built in and it's this is one of the reasons I'm using affinity photo because
I was using that though exactly those three services and it is built in with a sensitive model is it
that makes me very very happy you can just pin it if you want and what we'll do is we're going to search
for brick wall or some or anything like that where I can do I could just go and search for what we're
going to search for brick wall and look can see we have a bunch of different brick walls so you don't
want to concentrate on very bright colors because yeah you don't wanna you don't want to use it you
can of course but it doesn't matter that much.
All you need to do is it's to be a monotone look for example try to not use something like this for
a right here we call because this is it's not monotone.
This one is not monotone.
This one is not monotone but those ones are let's say for example if I take this brick wall which I
actually used in the past I'm going to just press and hold it and just take it and put it right here
and it will download this from the on Splash website and just put it there what I will do right now
I'm going to use my fingers and what I will do is I'm going to use a move tool to resize it for the
size of the canvas I'm gonna just increase this just like that and when to point the ad right here and
try to have it adjust just like that.
But as you can see the photo is just way too tall.
All I can do is just go and make it exactly the same size as you can see if I'll do this.
This will not make photo look bad.
This will make photo look OK and just don't worry about it because this background will not be visible
way too much as I can see you will have one image layer right here if you want you can call it rename
it if you want it to the background it doesn't matter can just I know remember how to rename it yeah
you can rename it just like that and call it back round just like that and press it background so you
know exactly that this is a background then what I will add is I usually have like few elements that
I need I have my background I have my face right here because I don't want to any text to be right here
because this place is where the timestamp Mitchell the length of the video is shown on your YouTube
video I'm going to put my face right here I'm going to put my text right here or and additional elements
on round here this is how I go you can mix and match these things however you want.
So what I will do right now is I'm going to go to this place right here and I'm gonna choose for example
I'm gonna choose this photo right here I'm going to copy this photo from here and what I will do is
I'm going to go here and I'm going to pasteboard and just press piece and this is what will happen I'm
gonna put my face right here and I'm gonna put this already right here as I can see this face of mine
I'm going to put it just just right to the edge and just make it a bit larger just a bit larger not
way to are a bit larger maybe kind of part of my hair there and just put it just like that.
So this is made to just make me look something and it's something just convey some emotion some different
type of emotions because usually photos with emotions dumbness with emotions work the best don't mention
the colors we're gonna color correct this a bit later we'll just first things we're gonna do is we're
gonna put some elements that we're going to refine it a bit better it make it look far far far far better
what we'll do right now is we're going to add some tax rate here let's just imagine that we're doing
this as a YouTube video when we're going to add this as a thumbnail of our our video or something like
that and we're gonna write the text called we're going to increase the size first because the sizes
of which are small the size we're going to use is nine effects then this when I call it.
No no we didn't radical correctly.
And you and it's way too big but don't worry about this question mark and like a question mark an exclamation
mark and what we're going to do is we're going to go the text editor two and we are going to go to the
view to we don't need to do anything here anymore and we're going to get back we can select this one
and what we're going to do is we're going to change our font I used I usually use Helvetica new and
then gonna go and condense the bold then what I'm gonna do it for topography I'm going for all caps
and then for the color I'm going usually for white because the a white text can be visible is a bit
more visible than the black text then I'm gonna make it a bit smaller just like that and I'll make it
just like that.
You text right here and as I can see when you look at the text the white text or a color text it shades
gets it gets lost on a background and what I do usually as soon as I will just do write a text just
for me because I don't like when it's not visible.
You can do it of course later.
I'm going to add some effects.
I'm gonna go off the effects and I'm going to add some outline.
I'm going to press right here and I'm going to increase the radius of the outline as you can see them.
And it just comes back to life.
It's very very beautiful it's very very good.
We're going to change the stuff from yeah we're going to add a bunch more effects but I just did it
because I don't like how it looks beforehand.
We can't go and oh sorry I just did a double click.
So it's a double click.
Changes some stuff on when I go to the history and get back to the radius.
Sometimes it happens.
No worries.
And then what we'll do.
Oh no not a contour.
We're gonna go back to Salt color.
We can go to contour if you want and what we'll do right now is we're going to add some additional type
of image for example in this case what I use is I usually go for the YouTube.
I would go for the YouTube because the videos about the YouTube and the people would need to understand
that yeah.
This video is about the YouTube so why the hell not.
I'm going to add the youtube logo right here.
When I had this one like that.
And yet as soon as you will go to the image as soon as you will see the image I'm going to make this
one a bit bigger maybe a bit more narrower maybe at a no.
Now it does not look that good.
I'm gonna make it just like that.
Now I'm going to get back.
I don't want to make it look narrow.
Yes thumbnail when I'm at something like that let's make it to the very edge of the screen just like
that we're going to add some effects later.
What I can do is I can make it go a bit more down and just not cover my face just like that positioning
is very very important.
And what we will do with this one is make it a bit bigger so people understand that this video is about
YouTube.
And right now what we'll do is we're going to add some effects.
We will try to not affect the d text and this text what we'll do is we're going to go for the background
and we're gonna go and add some adjustments.
First things first that we're gonna do is I'm going to go and adjust some vibrance and make the vibrance
at maximum level and maybe add some saturation as saturation as well because the saturation photos look
very good.
What I will do is I'm going to take this one this adjustment and put it above my face as well because
I want this effect to my face as well.
Maybe I want to change this later but right now I want to add I want to affect my face as well.
Then what I will do is I'm going to go for the shadows and highlights Yeah let's go and look for the
shadows and highlights let's make shadows more pronounced because the darker the photo the better.
Not.
But not way too much because it seems like the shadows are all about my photo my hair.
Yeah.
OK.
This effect does not look very good.
Someone Dominic is just gonna remove this maybe I'm going to need to find some curves.
Maybe that's what I need to do.
Yeah let's go for the curves and the skull for the spine.
Let's make this a bit more darker as you can see the more darker the better.
And just like that.
Just not try to lose way too much color and just adjust just the way too much.
And yet this is s type of curve looks looks great.
OK.
This is very very good because it looks quite sharp and from from behind and it looks pretty pretty
good as well.
So what we'll do again is we're going to take this this this should affect everything.
But what we're gonna do is we're gonna affect background one additional effect because we gonna make
it we wanted to make it a bit dark.
We're gonna go and add brightness and contrast and we're going to add some more contrast because the
more contrast the image is the better and make it a bit a bit stuck maybe boy dark.
Just like that a bit darker.
Yes OK.
One thing that I don't like is the vibrance here.
I'm going to go and vibrance adjustment to this one as well I don't want this to be that vibrant and
actually this looks pretty pretty good.
It looks very eye popping when you go to the thumbnail you will see this thumbnail right away it will
catch your eyes with a bunch of rads and bunch of blues but we're gonna need some more effects here
as well.
We're gonna go for the text first.
Let's change some effects for the texts go for the effects and what we're gonna do is we can add some
inner shadow first.
Just a tiny bit of it in their shadow in a shadow just go for the intensity the techs were doing this
for the text as you can see it added some inner shadow there is what we can go increase if you want
and is against it it gives us some kind of a different like the edges of the text look darker at the
middle of the text looks brighter it gives you some kind of a 3D image as it gives you if I will move
this one you will see exactly what type of shadows we are talking about when I take this back and yeah.
This gives you a bit more a different look what will do as well is add outer shadow as well we're gonna
increase radius we're gonna give the maximum intensity and we're gonna make an offset just a bit we're
gonna just zoom in just to see as you can see there is a shadow we're going to decrease the radius go
for the offset and just make it like that is because it this text the shadow gives you immediately a
3D image we can do the same thing with my face as well if we want to do so and then what we'll do is
we can actually take the text effects and what we're gonna do is we can just long press on the text
pass on the text just long press we're going to press copy and then we'll do going to go for the YouTube
image and go for the pasteboard and I'm going to paste effects as you can see change the effects right
away but I don't want a black outline for the YouTube I want it to be white I want to go to the effects
I'm gonna go for the outline and transform outline colour into the White This is what will happen and
immediately you see that it looks a bit different and it pops up the color popping is most important
for you the color pops up I don't like the color of my skin and you but you know what we're going to
lose it we're going to leave it for now because this is not a very important thing for now but then
you can see we immediately got ourselves a thumbnail there's some that looks pretty pretty awesome there's
not much that you need to do you already understand what this thing is.
One thing that I would add as well is for the text I would add outer glow as well because outer glow
makes it so the text actually pops up you can go like as much as you can and you can actually go for
the different colors as well if you wish so if you are more risky you can go and do so as well up the
red looks pretty okay here you can go for the higher intensity if you want I will not suggest you do
do that you can change the blend modes if you wish but just play with it however you want and when increase
decrease intensity we don't need that that much one increase radius but decrease intensity and as you
can see this haze is not happy not not way too great I would change this my face right here I'm going
to make it a bit larger maybe a bit larger known I know actually kind of smaller and just increase make
it go up and what do I will would do is for my image I'd probably add an outer shadow as well let's
add an outer shadow that's increased inside just see where the shadow is when increase radius we going
to increase intensity and now we're going to increase intensity Max and decrease radius we don't want
it to be black and make it offset No not like that we're gonna go for an angle for an angle like increase
offset.
OK it goes this way and change an angle.
OK there it is.
There it is.
We're going to decrease the radius.
Just like that and yeah maybe you want to see.
You want to have something like that to have a shadow or something like that so you'd see to it would
seem like the the light is a decreased intensity.
This does not look very intense.
It looks like.
The light is hitting from this side right here.
It looks pretty pretty good don't you think.
This time it looks pretty good.
This does not look very very overcrowded.
This conveys you tax to her right away.
As for the tax what type of tax that you need to write is well something that sparks interest like this.
This one would be okay in our case to save for the quick thing but I would sit down and think more about
what type of text I would write because usually you need a bit more time to to do so.
So other things that you could do for the text was for the without a tax you could just go and for example
take away the face if you want and just make this one this logo right here put in the middle and it
would immediately change everything and make a logo look completely different even though it's the same
thing.
Or you could just go and take away the tax entirely and just have this one right away and have this
logo without a tax and immediate I'm gonna make this a position in the center just for you to know that
it's exactly in the center.
Yes it's exactly the center.
And this immediately.
Why did it.
Okay whatever.
I'm going to change this back center and center OK and immediately looks completely completely completely
different with a few element changes as you can see we have completely different stuff and this thumbnails
look good.
They are not the best thumbnails ever but they look good and people can understand what this video can
be about and sparks their interest even their instant.
For example in the YouTube eye how this suggests use vs Raff if you're using it on a pad.
Because this basically alleviates like all the need to go through photos and just search for photos
or have a bunch of different assets in your photos you can put everything in here and just stores every
single photo locally for example.
I have the same for my gaming channel if I want like different logos different backgrounds etc etc.
You can put them in however distance you want in on the two do you play and you can even change the
brightness if you want or desire or get rid of greed if you wish.
It's a very very useful application that I would highly suggest you do use and of course the affinity
for all these amazing software that you could use for the video.
So this will be it for the thumbnails.
I hope this was clear enough.
Let's just move to the next one.