Selective use of blur and contrast to make thumbnails "pop"Ī few useful shortcuts not everyone might know about Layer styles (stroke, outer glow, drop shadows, all that fun stuff) Selecting and erasing backgrounds to create "transparent" elements (useful for logos) The video is about 40 minutes long, it shows the process of creating 3 different thumbnails from scratch, and it covers: I understand my style may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think the techniques I go over can be used to make any type of thumbnail. The first two in the album are two of the three I make in the video, although I did make some minor changes to one of them after recording it (different font, different color stroke). Here are some of the thumbnails I've made for my videos. I don't claim to be a Photoshop guru, but I've been doing photography for close to 10 years and in that time I've learnt a few things, both when it comes to photo/image editing and in terms of what makes for a good/interesting image.
#How to make a thumbnail for youtube on cs6 how to#
I've been seeing a lot of posts from people asking for advice and tips on how to make better thumbnails for their videos, so I decided to make one to share what I know on the subject and hopefully help those trying to figure out Photoshop and how to make these damn things.