#how to make thumbnails

[the-design-desk]

How to Design YouTube Thumbnails That Get Millions of Clicks

Creating a YouTube thumbnail that stands out is crucial for attracting viewers and increasing your video’s click-through rate (CTR). A well-designed thumbnail can be the difference between a video that gets millions of clicks and one that gets overlooked.

Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to design YouTube thumbnails that get millions of clicks.

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1. Use the Correct Thumbnail Dimensions

The first step in creating an effective YouTube thumbnail is to use the correct dimensions. YouTube recommends a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels with a minimum width of 640 pixels. The ideal aspect ratio is 16:9, which is commonly used across the platform. Ensuring your thumbnail meets these specifications will help maintain its quality across different devices and screen sizes.

2. Choose a Compelling Background Image

Your thumbnail’s background image should be eye-catching and relevant to your video content. High-quality images that are clear and vibrant tend to attract more attention. Avoid using stock images; instead, use a still from your video or a custom image that represents the content accurately. This helps in setting the right expectations for viewers.

3. Add Text to Your Thumbnail

Incorporating text into your thumbnail can provide additional context and make it more engaging. Use short, impactful phrases that highlight the main theme of your video. Ensure the text is large enough to be readable on smaller screens and contrasts well with the background. Avoid overcrowding the thumbnail with too much text; keep it concise and to the point.

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4. Use Close-Up Images

Close-up images, especially of faces, can significantly increase the effectiveness of your thumbnail. Faces with expressive emotions can create a connection with potential viewers, making them more likely to click on your video. This is particularly important for mobile users, where thumbnails appear smaller.

5. Maintain Brand Consistency

Consistency in your thumbnails helps in building a recognizable brand. Use the same color palette, fonts, and style across all your thumbnails. This not only makes your videos easily identifiable but also enhances your channel’s overall aesthetic. Including your logo in a consistent spot, such as the corner of the thumbnail, can also help in brand recognition.

6. Avoid Clickbait

While it might be tempting to use clickbait to attract viewers, it’s important to ensure that your thumbnail accurately represents your video content. Misleading thumbnails can lead to a high bounce rate, damaging your channel’s reputation and reducing viewer trust. Instead, use intriguing yet honest visuals and text that give a true insight into what the video is about.

7. Test Different Designs

Experimenting with different thumbnail designs can help you understand what resonates best with your audience. Create multiple versions of a thumbnail and monitor their performance. YouTube allows you to change your thumbnail even after the video is published, so don’t hesitate to update it if you find a design that performs better.

8. Use High-Contrast Colors

High-contrast colors can make your thumbnail stand out against YouTube’s predominantly white and red interface. Colors like orange, green, yellow, and blue are excellent choices. Ensure that the text color contrasts well with the background to make it easily readable.

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[designassociates338]

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Thumbnail is the most important part of your video. The all first impression coming from your thumbnail. Perfect thumbnail will gain you more views and subscribers for sure.

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[mercurymoths]

The colours as little paper chain guys was an idea I couldn’t get out of my head, so I drew not one but two versions! (Cuz I’m a sucker for shadow >:))

[stiwfssr]

[tumblr blocked embedding of this video]

I have made a sex-free edit of the 2008 adult film To the Last Man.

The original version is more than five hours, but can be (and has been) cut down to about 45 minutes (including the credits). It's all plot and nice cinematography.

A couple of scenes I included have some of that aforementioned plot occurring alongside nudity. I censored the offending dicks and nutsacks, but left the bare asses. I think we can all handle some non-sexual ass. As a treat.

There's lots of murder, though.

[couch-house]

yippee knuckles comic done! wanted to try several things: tell a story in 4-7 pages, attempt to style layouts and writing a bit more like stc comics, and lump my "knuckles raised unknowingly by the m.e." headcanons together. mixed results I think but I still think it turned out nice :)

[puppyeared]

surfs up!!

[lucabyte]

Olive Branch

Wrong Move

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Repress It, Mk!

Mei and Red Son wouldn't be his backup singers (because they support going to therapy) so he had to improvise. He's fine, all good all the time all good

[aetherean-alchemist]

QSMP 3AM CHALLENGE GONE WRONG

OMG SUPER HAUNTED

NOT CLICKBAIT (BLOOD SACRIFICE) (CUCURUCHO SPOTTED???)

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[catcomixzstudios]

I can barely begin to express how much the course of my life has been altered because of a 40 minute highlight video done by @jelloapocalypse and friends riffing over a 20 year old sky pirate game.

I made an off-handed comment after watching it together with two of my longtime friends, about how much I wish I had what Vyrsa had, and one of those friends STRAIGHT-UP TELLS ME that her and her wife have been crushing on me for a while.

The feeling was mutual, though I'd been of course hesitant to even hint at it.

Anyway now a few months later, we're a thruple, and we decided to honor the genesis of our relationship by cosplaying as the trio that made it a reality for my 30th birthday!

PinkCatNinja, me (CatComixzStudios), and ArtieStokes as Aika, Vyce Vyrsa, and Fina respectively, from SKIES OF ARCADIA!

And as a bonus, a comment I left on the video before my egg would crack completely (was still IDing as genderfluid at the time)

[deoidesign]

And my girlfriends?

yeah.

they smoke weed.

(original post) (sometimes a copypasta fits your character so well...)

[abblegum]

bath

[butchdiaz]

buddie — kill her freak out (samia)

commissioned by @daughter-of-winterfell thank you!