How to make YouTube Custom Thumbnail Checklist:
1. Take pictures ahead of time for your video thumbnail
2. Use canva.com (free thumbnail maker)
3. Add extra contrast and saturation to your thumbnail to make the colors pop
4. Add your extra sharpening on the thumbnail picture
5. Make sure your text is readable (And use as few words as possible)
6. Check out this article from Google bout how to enable YouTube Custom Thumbnails https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431?hl=en
How to Make Custom Thumbnails on YouTube with Free Online Software
Download the free checklist with “19 Tips for Getting More Views and Subscribers on YouTube” at: http://videoinfluencers.net/19tips
Watch How to Make a YouTube Custom Thumbnail Tutorial on YouTube HERE.
About this video:
In this video Sean Cannell from Video Influencers shares his custom YouTube thumbnail tutorial with Canva, Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software. If you want to figure out how to make custom thumbnails on YouTube for free, watch this short training video. Canva.com is my favorite free YouTube thumbnail maker and you can use it as a quick thumbnail creator. The video also covers how to how to turn on custom thumbnails and change thumbnail YouTube. Inside of Canva you can create a custom thumbnail template and then create a custom thumbnail for your videos. Things change every year so check out this video if you want to figure out how to make custom thumbnails on YouTube in 2016.
