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How to create a basic thumbnail for youtube.

Tutorial Name: How to create a basic thumbnail for youtube.  

Category: Graphics Tutorials

Submitted By: EG6

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First off you want to create a new file. Make the dimensions like I do in the video for best results. Once you have done that head over to step two.

Once you have created the new file you want to choose two colours, you can go contrast, harmonising or like I have done take one colour and simply choose a darker shade.

Now what you want to do is click on the gradient tool, and make sure Linear Gradient is selected. Now what you want to do is hold shift and drag your mouse down the middle of the background or as close to the middle as possible.

Once you have done this you now want to click on filter>distort>wave and then set the wave settings like I do in the video. Once you have set the wave you want to go to filter again Distort and then this time you want to click on polar coordinates.

Now once you have done that you want to choose an image, you will need to pen tool the image unless it doesn't have a background. For the purpose of this video I'm going to use the TTG logo.

Simply pen tool your image trying to follow the lines the best you can. Once you have done this you want to right click and create vector mask. Or you can do what I do in the video and use the background eraser tool, just make sure you copy my settings.

Once you have done that, all you need to do is add your text and more images if you desire.

All Dimensions From Video

File Dimensions : 1280x700 + 200 Resolution
Wave Dimensions : 345 50 50
That is all the dimensions that I used in the video.

Thanks for checking out my tutorial and I hope this helps out a lot of people.

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GhostPosted:

Jesus Christ I remember these days, that's a throwback lol

MrParkerPosted:

Not bad I'm not a fan of the text color but I mean still good tut thanks

TOXICPosted:

This ain't a bad tutorial mate, but I'd say to maybe leave out the purple font Color next time as it's very hard to see lol.

ResortPosted:

Finally i always struggled when making thumbnails

BloomyPosted:

Doesn't Youtube have to like, allow you to add thumbnails on your videos after a while of uploading?