HOW TO: YouTube Thumbnails! 📷
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Thumbnails! I've just gone through and updated all my thumbnails because up until recently I'd been using the ones given by YouTube. I've always wondered: how do YouTubers make your thumbnails? Do they use photos or still shot? Do they have text (the title) or not? I've been using PicMonkey and using a picture (or 2 or 3) taken from the day. I've loved using and playing around with the overlays feature. I was torn on whether to include the title but I went ahead and did it to add a little pop of colour in some of the thumbnails. Here are a selection of the variety of types I made. The first one I did was my most recent video from Morocco and it's probably the simplest. I kind of want to go back and start again but I think I've wasted enough time because I've been doing it for the past two days. I took the only picture of all three of us from the holiday and then simply resized it before adding the title in simple black, clear font. After that,