Make Quick YouTube Thumbnails In Canva

1. 1. Course Intro - Make Quick YouTube Thumbnails In Canva: My ducks, swans, welcome to the pond. Today we're going to talk about how to make quick YouTube thumbnails using Canvas. Canvas is a great resource for anybody who has access to the Internet. And it allows you to do these complicated graphic design things very fast. I have known how to make YouTube thumbnails on here. These YouTube thumbnails have gotten me over 150 million views on YouTube. We've had multiple videos go viral because of these thumbnail specifically. And I'm gonna give you all the tips and tricks that I've learned. Posting over 1,800 videos on YouTube for what works inside of YouTube, thumbnails, I'm going to show you how to get custom fonts and custom colors and custom text. You had to add shadows to background images. I'm going to show you how to find high-quality images on the Internet that you can use. I'm going to show you how I make sure that I capture the audience's attention. And I'm going to show you how to do all of this in less than 20 min. So if you or anyone who was interested in YouTube thumbnails or you're interested in getting more of you to your YouTube channel or used instant and graphic design altogether or how to work Campbell better watch this entire course. Stay locked in because these are invaluable gyms that you're gonna be able to get to see you on the next lesson. I'm after pond you, I'll stay true. 2. 2. Course Project - Make Your Own Thumbnail: My ducks, swans, welcome to the pond. Today we are talking about the course project. The course project. You're going to make a thumbnail. You're going to watch this entire course. You're gonna go through everything we said this started the course. You're going to make your own YouTube thumbnail and you're going to submit it below. And we're going to comment on these YouTube thumbnails. Don't be shy, don't be bashful. This ain't no area for anybody to judge. All of our intentions are pure. This is for you to become the best creative, the best graphic design or the best thumbnail designer that you possibly can be. So show off the work that you have done. There is no reason to watch this course and not apply to information. Once you apply the information, you're going to have a finished product, which is the thumbnail. So make sure you post it below. This is imperative if you want to capture everything from this course. So put that in the description below, in the portfolio below, we're going to comment on it. If you see somebody else's adult thumbnail, make sure you comment on there as well. I'm a C on the course project. I look forward to look into your thumbnails. I'm not the pot. Yeah. True. 3. 3. How To Navigate Canva & Use Templates: Okay, inside here is canva.com. And the easiest way to do this inside of canva.com as vowels you as soon as I would come in here, I would immediately go over to templates because as you can see on canva.com, they got all types of docs, whiteboards, YouTube banners where we can be doing is YouTube thumbnails, videos, and logos. So I will come over here to templates. Inside template, I will come up here to this search prompt. I will type in what type of template that I'm looking for. We're looking for YouTube thumbnail template, so I will click YouTube thumbnail templates. When you click YouTube thumbnail template, you can either see on this left-hand side how it has it segment. You can go here or you can just scroll down and look and see which ones work for you. Great thing about us is that we already have a template that we use here, a group EDI two, we have a save under our brand templates. And what we're gonna do, we're going to click Use Template. Now, this sample was made before Canva even existed. This is on this proprietary to group EDI too. If you want this template, we can have a file inside of the description. We can click it, you can download it, but this template is specific to us. But like I said, you can find all types of templates inside of Canva. So I highly suggest you start off with a template. The first thing we want to do when we start off with tables, we want to change the title so we can make sure our title is correct. So the title for this one's going to be 50 Cent. Warned Drake of Vout. Little Wayne. Alright, so we have that. Good. Just a quick navigation of Canva very fast. So as you can see up here, we have our menu bar, like you would have in anywhere on any sort of document or any sort of platform. One thing I always suggest doing under file as you go to File, go here, go to View settings, Show rulers and guides, and make sure that's checked. And what that does is you see this ruler right here, right? That makes it easy for us was time for us to align our texts. I'll make sure that's clicked on. If you go over here to elements, anything you want to do, any sort of graphic art and he sort of emojis you can type in and start for the elements that might be an heir upload. This is for any sort of photos or anything or videos. Do you want to bring in for yourself? This is what I use, primarily texts. When you want to write your texts, use any sort of texts. Projects. I don't use this at all. Apps. This is for plugins that are used inside of Canva to do whatever you want Canvas to do. So go study and see what plugins are out there because Canva has a lot of plugins that you can use inside of the app. 4. 4. How To Add Custom Colors, Fonts & Logos: So what we'll do, will it go back here to upload? No, I'm sorry. We're gonna go back up here to text and assign it takes, as you can see right here, you can see that this text is already a font that might look familiar. You are familiar with the group a to brand. You probably can see our font right here, but the reason that our font is already loaded because I set the brand kit. So you can see it says group EDI to media right here we have a button right here that says Edit. If you want to change your brand kit, I highly suggest you do that. You click Edit. As you can see, we got our logos as a society here. If I wanted to add a new one, I could click there, say what the colors, all of our colors, any of the colors that we use the side of Group at E two, if you want to add a color, It's very easy. Click Plus, you can navigate the color throughout the spectrum, or you could type to color-code in right here. Let's delete this color to make sure it's not in there. And fonts, no, Canva has a lot of fonts that you might want to use. But in addition to that, there might be a font that you find on Google. You can upload that font right here. You can see the fonts that we use here. So this is a great way to have everything set for you. So once you come inside of Canva, you're just ready to go. You don't have to worry about anything else when it comes to preparing yourself, when it's time to make your graphics. 5. 5. How To Add & Edit Text: This is all of our texts is ready to go. What I'm gonna do is I'm just going to start putting our texts in here right now. So let's click this x and we click Add heading. And what this does is it brings up a textbox and already have a pretty good idea for how we would do the title. So 50 cent worn Drake about little ways will probably five textboxes. So let's click this four more times, 4321 and only one more at the bottom for the company branding, who's bringing us all the way down. And I'll do group A2, university.com. Just click that off. I can make a little bit smaller and grab the corner right there. Let's make it a little bit smaller. By one of the center. It doesn't have to be exact, but that's cool. And we got all five of these. Let's just kinda put them in a place. Separate them. So we can know this has edit texts. So $0.50 always do all caps. Whenever I'm doing thumbnails, I always do all caps. And I want specific subjects to have their own line. Because I want to kind of get a little bit creative with the coloring and the format is lot easier. Do it, we do it like this. Okay? So now we have all of our texts, but as you can see, is on the line to super small and we want to make sure everything's right. So remember I talked earlier about going to file and view settings and show rulers and guides is why you want to do this. So what do you want do is come over and you see this little, a little arrow right there, that two-sided arrow in the middle rather than the ruler. We're going to click and we're going to drag. And what this does is it brings a ruler in here. And we're going to bring this probably about right here. Now for any of y'all that, use Final Cut Pro or logic, or if you do any video editing or music, you probably are familiar with the snapping, turn Snapping, where it can automatically like it's like a magnetic timeline and brings things over. So that's what we're doing here. Who's going to make sure that everything is aligned and what are we going to do is kinda start making things bigger. Like I said, I'm trying to take up as much space as I possibly can, so I know a little way it's going to be right there. That about Reagan, bring this down just a little bit bigger. I know Drake's going to be a word that we want to make sure it's emphasized, it's huge. So that warned right here, as you can see, everything is right on that line, which makes it really good. It makes it really easy. So worn, it's huge, it in 50 cent. Okay, alright. So as you can see, it's all aligned right here, but it's still a little bit. All right, so let's kinda weird spacing is a little bit off. So what I'm gonna do is I feel like there's too much of a gap between the letters and the characters themselves. So as you can see, like the 5.0, so you had a big gap in between there are like the C and the E or the E and the t. We can kind of squeeze that together. So we're going to do, when I come up here again, I'm going to click on this 50 cent. Wanted to click on this menu right here where it says spacing. I'm going to click spacing. And as you can see, they got a letter spacing and line spacing. Now watch what happens when I take this letter spacing tab. So yeah, like how shrinks it together, I smush it together. And that's going to save us some space. So let's get to like negative, negative 50. That looks pretty good. So let's make sure let's lock that in for every single one. So we'll copy and paste for all of these negative 50. There we go. So now we're going to move it back over to the line. That happens sometimes starts moving in weird directions about lane for us, del, del, okay. Now we can do it. We can start filling in the space. So let's make this as big as we can. Alright, so I've got that trach about, we've got a little way, okay. Now, this is starting to get to where we wanted to be when it come down here at the bottom. And we're going to grab this Zoom right here so we can get a better view. And this is probably how people are going to be looking at your thumbnail anyway, so you wanna make sure you are constantly worried. I mean, constantly concern yourself with housing and look from a distance and how big it is. So like I said, try to take up as much space as you can. I'm getting a little particular right here, but this is really important to me. So okay. 50 cent Warren's rake about Little Wayne. All right. I feel like that about can be a little bit. Getting it be alright, that's good enough. Okay, so next thing we wanna do is I want to change the colors. So I think definitely want warned red, because that's alert. So that means let's make 50 cent or blue. Let's make Drake are blue. Single way in our blue. We kept that red. What would it do for the same Warren draggable little white carpet, darker, a darker tone that we're going for. That's not that bad. So okay, cool. So now as you can see, we got to texts done like these hard texas does. So half of the thumbnail, this sidewalk right to texas dot 6. 6. How To Add & Edit Graphics: Now on this side, what I do is I add graphics and I add our logo and everything. So we're gonna go over here to the upload section. And I'm going to type in up here, just type in the word logo. And what's going to bring up all the logos I've done. I'm going to grab this group, any two logo right here at the bottom. I'm going to shrink it. And we are going to have our branding on everything we do. And I'm bringing this up right here. Like I said, if you saw your media kit, you can put your logo in. It's already in there, but I'm going to show you all how to upload photos and logos, anything right here in a minute, so stay locked in. So now I'm starting to get kind of a creative idea for how I want to do this thumbnail. And I'm thinking about in the background, I want a picture of little weight and Drake together, the unhappy. And I want 50 in the foreground, like in your face, looking me in the camera, and that shouldn't be that hard to do. So this is a great hack for any biters is looking at images is very easy to do. So what you wanna do is you want to go to Google and you want to get the type of images that you're looking for. So I wanted to write a little way together. So Drake and Little Wayne type in, Hi, oops, high quality PNG. That's what she wanted to do. That's a little hack and he will come over to Google and click images. And as you can see, these are high-quality images that you can use inside of your Canva. Preferably you want to get southern that has a background is already removed. But if not, you got a pretty good chance to find some good. And there's a lot of stuff in here. Somebody has a pretty good as cool, but I kind of liked this one because this is Buddy, buddy. Let's click this. And once you click it, you see that this is also a website a little way, HQ. We don't want to save it from here. This is something that can really mess you up. So make sure you do this. Right-click open image in new tab. Drake calls little weight and greatest whatever it says on top. Then right-click Save Image As. And now we're gonna save image as Drake Little Wayne, going to add to our desktop is now saved. When it comes back here to Canva, we're going to click Make sure on uploads. Women go to upload files, are actually exits out. Go to Upload Files. Drake, Little Wayne, open. Now we can see it is now uploading. It takes a little bit like 3 s to send there. Click it, boom, now it's here. Now, this is a great image, but all these people in the background on us, so we wanna get rid of that in Canva makes it very easy to remove backgrounds. All we got to do is make sure the images highlighted. Go up here to Edit image and click bg remover if you can't find it here or here. These are my recently used type to say in background removal. Let's click it right here, background remover and watch this in a matter of seven to 8.2 s is gone. And now all that background is gone. But we still have a little bit here that we want to get rid of over here down by underway his elbow with shirts. So inside the background remover, what they have is a tool called erase. So what we're gonna do with it, click Erase, as you can see, it zooms in on this for us. And we can even zoom in a little more and it gives us an eraser and just come right here and just get rid of all of this stuff that we don't really want it to be inside the picture. After you start getting more fine tune, we can take the brush size down a little bit so we don't erase any, uh, Wayne, make the brush a little bit smaller. If you really want to give science, if it went in surgical way that you can zoom in. This is for those yada, like really serious attention to details. Me, not so much like this. This is just a YouTube thumbnail. Remember, you don't want to waste time. He's wanted to get the thing done. And for the most part, LLC good. It's not the best, but it looks okay. I'll see anything else around it. If you really pay a digital, you can see it, but for the most part you can. So we're going to hit Done, and now that's gone. So what we wanna do is I want to move this up because I don't like how Drake is cut off right here. So we want to kinda mass debt by having him up here, like going there and probably make a little bit bigger. Another thing that I do, since this is gonna be in the background and it's going to be in the foreground. I go up here to this menu and I click this checkerboard where it says transparency. And when I do that, I bring this down about, about 50. As you can see, the image has started to be a little bit more opaque. It's almost like it's in the background like a memory. We could do that and boom, there we go. And I think that looks pretty good. I know we had the elbow right there That's going to be cut off, but we're going to add $0.50. So let's see what we do with that. So let's go over here. Let's type in, Let's go back to Google, and let's go faster image of 50. So let's do the same thing. $0.50, high-quality PNG. Then all these images of 50 or cool, the SMEs, younger ones want to make sure that we want something where he's looking at cameras mean, like I liked this one, but his hats cutoff as can be problematic. Like it wasn't drugs arm. Oh, there we go, right here. So PNG wing, any website that says like PNG are some, that means they specialize these images. So it's usually a pretty good idea to go with them. So once again, we clicked it, going to right-click open image in new tab. Let's close this little line one. When we come over here, that's small. That's small. That small Let's see you somebody either down here. Let me see how this looks. Yeah, that looks much better. I click down at the bottom. This was an option below that image. So let's open this in a new tab. Yeah, that looks way better if it's bigger. As you can see the details, this is going to be a much higher quality image. So we're going to right-click, I'm going to Save Image As and go for the desktop. Is saved. Go down here, back to Canva. Come over here to upload. Open. Perfect, uploaded, click it Bull. Now we're in here. We'll do the same thing we just did at it. Image background remover. Now, looking at image of 50 that we have. Now the great thing about this image is that because it's cut off at the bottom and the sides, we can kinda have them lean over to the black a little bit. And I want 50 as big as possible. I want people to see his eyes and want people to see Drake and wane. So I want to click on white and just make them a little bit bigger. There we go, see if we get them to the top. Drake's almost air, so that's good enough. 50. What else? Good, real good. Now what we can do with 50 is something I like to do tonight. The image a little bit better. So we can go inside of edit image. And you can add any effect you want. Go look up what type of effects are inside of Canva, crazy amount of Texas Society of Canada. But what I like to do, I could come over here and I use shadows. Shadows does is it adds a little outline around 50. So we got a glow, we've got to drop, you got to angle carved pays live backdrop. So we're going to see which one that we want. I think I want to go back to angle and we can adjust it, as you can see right here says C Controls. So we're going to click that. We can change the angle to have it move washes, moving to the right is on this other shoulder now it actually looks a little better. And then we can have the transparency to make it a little darker. Or it can be really light, but I like it dark. I can kind of add some separation. If we want to make this blurry, we can do that as well. But I kinda like it the dark, maybe a little bit. Okay. And so once we're done with that, that's all in there. And then we can make to try to make videos because we can Man. I never want to oh, what was that? Undo? The heck was that? Yeah. I don't know what happened. Alright. So I'll press Undo. Let's bring this back. I actually liked the size they made him know that aphids. All right. Alright, so we're going to do it again. They actually made him bigger, which actually prefer. So Duetto edit shadows, angle, patrols, getting more air and a little bit more to apply. Probably where I messed up. I didn't click that last time. I looked at that. I mean, that looks really, really good. You know, it is kinda got, you know, the, the cutoff of drape back there, but it is in the background or whatnot all because that big of a deal. 7. 7. How To Export Thumbnails: Now that this is fetish and this is ready to go, it's time to export it. To export our thumbnail is very easy and Campbell, I got to do is go up here. You want to click share. And you want to go down here, you wants to click Download. We click Download. You want to make sure that the file type is PNG. You want to make sure that the size is 12, 80 by 720 PX, saved out low settings don't have any of this clicked down low. And as you could see, makes it a little smaller. You can drag this. Now. As you can see, There's a YouTube thumbnail, ready Go rate of outflow. Looks really, really, really good. And it's that easy to make a YouTube thumbnail and Canva. 8. 8. Outro - Make Quick YouTube Thumbnails In Canva: My ducks, swans, welcome to the pot. You've done the entire course. Now you know how to add custom colors. Now you know how to add custom fonts. Now you know how to add custom logos. Now you know how to add shadows to the background of images. Now you know how to find high-quality PNG images on the Internet. Uh, you know, much, much more. Now you gotta put to work. Now you got to do the course project and make sure that you upload a thumbnail into the course project so we can comment on it. Now, if you have a YouTube channel, I suggest you go do this. Go find a video of yours that you think should have done a little bit better than it did based on the view count that you're getting and go make a brand new thumbnail for that video using the tips that I just showed you, upload that thumbnail and to that video and see what happens and let us know in the comments. If you see an uptick in your views, I appreciate you all watched the course. We got plenty of other courses on here. So go click on all those if you're looking to get right in YouTube or crypto, whatever it is that we're offering. And I'll see you all in those courses. Open their mouth, Du Pont, ya, stay true.