So will it discuss the general thumbnail concepts, but now we need to actually have some tools to work
with, right?
So in this lecture, we will be discussing the issue of what tools and what resources you will need
for your thumbnail creation, and we will try to go with both paid and free options.
Mainly, we're going to focus on free options for your convenience and for ease of use.
So let's just start if we're going to have three categories.
First are going to be absence of terror, where you will actually be building something else.
Second will be free.
Images basically were images that you will be used for.
And third is free assets basically all the usual of the phone to things like that that you will be using
for your thumbnail.
So let's start with the most obvious one with the biggest one and with probably the most popular one.
Of course it is.
Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop is the biggest photo manipulating software and for thumbnails, majority
of people actually using Photoshop for their own thumbnails and you cannot go wrong with the Photoshop.
Photoshop is the biggest and the best software that you can get for YouTube thumbnails.
However, usually Photoshop is an overkill for YouTube thumbnails.
You just don't need all the features.
And plus, because the Photoshop subscription based Adobe for myself not I'm not using Photoshop because,
yeah, it just it gets way too expensive if you're using it for just four thumbnails your photographer.
And if you're using this for a bunch of other things, yes, you justify the cost.
But paying monthly for Photoshop?
Yeah, I don't.
I'm not so advanced.
You use it for this one, but if you want it, you can use it for your own thumbnails easily.
Next is probably the biggest and the best competitive to Adobe Photoshop and its Affinity Photo, and
this is the software.
This is the main software that we will be using or our thumbnails, sort of this software that I myself
actually am using.
We're going to focus on free software as well.
Don't worry about that.
But this is the main one that I myself am using in my day to day YouTube life, and it is a perfect
alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
It does practically 90 95 percent of full Photoshop can do, and it does it perfectly well.
It does it very smoothly, very fast, and it's paid software.
But there's only one time purchase.
And if you go to price, it's available on Mac and Windows for fifty four point ninety five dollars,
and they often go and sells for around twenty five thirty dollars after you purchase it for around twenty
five dollars for both Mac and Windows.
And you can actually have an iPad version as well, which is full fledged.
Photoshop Alternative is a full, full full version.
This almost the same as all the on a Mac or Windows, but adapted to the touch interface and it's twenty
two dollars, which is perfect if you have iPad and if you want to use iPad for your computer and if
you use an iPad for your thumbnails, you can perfectly use that.
Alternatively, if you are doing a vector based thumbnails, you can go with Affinity Designer and Adobe
Illustrator.
But usually the vector based software for the majority of the beginners is actually much more complicated
than a regular raster based, which is just a Photoshop benefit.
But also, I would suggest you to go with either Photoshop or affinity for now another option, which
is again, probably the industry standard the thing that everybody knows and needs.
Canva Kerevi is an online based software.
It's a website based software, and it's not just ultra, it's a service that allows you to build a
bunch of a bunch of bunch of bunch of social media assets, including YouTube thumbnails, the full
fledged photo editor, and it's absolutely free.
You can also have YouTube thumbnails as well.
If you give a click it, say the tutorials almost you have a bunch of templates.
I'm not going to lie to you.
A majority of those Typekit, just those templates will not work for you, but me because they're just
kinda like an old designs that does not work that well today.
But I'm going to also teach you how we can actually adapt them for your own good as well.
Next is probably one of one of my biggest discoveries, and it is a therapy for AP is a full fledged,
even though older version but full fledged Photoshop that works in your browser and it is fully cross-platform.
It works in practically any browser.
I actually used it on my phone as well.
It does not work that well on a phone, but you can do that and you can load form pads and edit full
on thumbnails here in therapy.
And we're going to have another lecture focusing on for AP as well.
If you want something completely free and if you want something that can run practically on anything,
this is the latest version you can get and this is an amazing website that you should be using.
Next is --.
-- is in another industry standard, which is a free Photoshop alternative.
This absolute the free.
There is no paid tiers, there is no paid options, there's no in-app purchases or things like that,
with the full open source made by.
Actual developers are actually by internet itself software, which is a great, great alternative.
I won't lie to you.
I don't enjoy -- that much because the interface is not something that I like.
But for absolute majority of people, this will be the great software to start with.
I'm not using it myself because I can.
I disliked it.
I much prefer Affinity Photo for my purposes, but I actually use it because I can justify the cost
of offering the photo.
But if you can add, the -- is a perfect alternative.
Alongside the photo op, of course, this will be it for this software.
And now let's focus on an actual photos and photos will be the pixels of which is an amazing website.
Pexels.com.
You can get a bunch of bunch, a bunch of free photos and even get a free video.
So this is all for royalty free photos and videos and actually use it on a lot of videos from this website.
In my own YouTube videos as well, even if you don't want to pay for a royalty free video website like
storybooks and things like that, you can actually go and use Pexels.
It's absolutely free.
Images are absolutely stunning, as you can scroll down and see that they're beautiful, beautiful images.
They're even color coordinated.
You can even search by color, you can search by subjects and things like that.
There are beautiful, beautiful images right here and beautiful videos right here as well.
Next is Pixabay.
Zoom is like an alternative to Pexels.
It's practically the same, but on steroids, it actually has a bunch of more things than just photos.
It has photos, it has illustrations.
If you want to use any illustrations, it has a vector's again.
If you're using vector based software, you can use vectors.
It has videos as well, and it even has music, which is a royalty free music that you can use in your
YouTube videos.
And it has even sound effects, which is an amazing and amazing, amazing additions that you can use
for your own videos.
It's not just for thumbnails, but overall for your entire YouTube channel.
Next is Unsplash, which is another photo software, which is another photo service, and it's probably
much better than Pexels Pixabay Because the quality of the photos here is simply superb.
I have no idea how these images are actually free.
They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful images.
All of those images are top notch, highest quality, very high resolution of very beautiful images,
very dramatic and amazing photos.
If you want just simply fantastic photos for your thumbnails or for any purpose is, to be fair, use
Unsplash as well.
Now, let's move on to assets because this will be far important because usually you need to focus on
on photos of yourself, you know, thumbnails rather than just find the stock images.
But we just need to know that because we can use this document as well.
And next is, of course, the font.
The font is the font outcome is the font website where you can find a bunch of bunch of money.
I think there are millions of fonts right here, and you can download this font for your own thumbnails.
However, you should know that thumbnails are actually protected by copyright, so not actually millions
of sixty one thousand something like that.
Yeah, thumbnails are protected by copyright, so you cannot use all of the thumbnails.
Know that because your even your thumbnail might be taken down.
So if you want to use this as an optional different use, go on top or new fonts and things like that
and go in search right here, make it more visible.
View more options right here and select public domain in 100 percent free.
This are and only thumbnails that you should be using.
There is like little weird selection.
I know that.
But these are thumbnails.
These are phones that you can actually be.
You can if you be using 3D practically anywhere.
It's not just thumbnails.
You can be using any of my favorites.
The bold font.
I'm using this practically everywhere, so you can just go and use a lot of a lot of beautiful.
Don't worry if you think like, Oh, this selection is much more, but you will be protected.
Trust me, this is much better route to go than just use some random, beautiful font and just be copyright
strike or just copyright claim by someone that is using their is owner of these fonts.
So just be very careful with that.
Next, these few websites actually have five websites, but they're actually doing exactly the same
thing.
It's great of giving you a free PNG images if you don't know what your images are.
It's just the image format that allows it to have a transparent background.
All of those images right here have a transparent background, and you can use it in your elements in
your thumbnails.
It's tapping you one of them up here.
It's item know, stick behind you.
That is probably my favorite.
I'm going to just make it quite different because there are a lot of beautiful stickers is in the away
panel, which is beautiful as well and dewy, which is my another favorite.
You can use all of those pages in your thumbnails to make your thumbnails much, much, much, much,
much better.
So these are all the assets that you can be using.
Just go and browse whatever you want and when you go what?
And one will go to this thumbnail creation itself.
We will be.
Using assets from all of those websites, and we'll be using all the tools from these websites as well.
So this will be for this lecture.
And next, we're going to move to templates and actual preparation to our thumbnail questions.
I'm going to see you in the next zip.