So, OK, now we're ready to edit our thumbnails, and I actually opened Affinity Photo and I dropped
all my templates from my template pack right here, and I'm going to show you how you actually can use
it to edit all of those thumbnails.
So as you can see, I have a few thumbnail templates right here.
I have actually 10 templates here, and I can actually choose which one to open.
If you if you use thumbnail templates because it's behind my face as well, it's it's my little latest.
It's this this is my main thumbnail template.
If you can see behind my face, I have like more than ten thumbnail templates open before.
We're going to start actually focusing on thumbnails, know that these templates are actually ready
to use and you could just drop and just start editing right then and there without any additional hassle
in an affinity for.
I'm going to show you, of course, how to do that in Katmai as well.
But the preparation is this when you create a new file, remember that you are editing your a.m. nails
in 720p.
Don't need any more resolution than that.
You should not have a new resolution than that.
720P is twelve eighty pixels, a 720 720 all the thumbnail, the old templates and a template that is,
of course, already pretty down for you.
But you need that mm if you need pixels.
Twelve eighty zoom, it's twelve eighty by 720 is what you need to focus on.
The API 300 is, of course, better to have because yet 300Mbps is actually pretty good.
This is the resolution of your thumbnail templates.
Before you're going to start editing any thumbnails, you need to prepare all the assets, and I'm going
to show you my huge thumbnail template my dad I regularly use, which is basically a transformed version
of this thumbnail template that I added on and added on and added on it.
Transform it into something big and something huge.
Like this follows here.
This thumbnail template is actually seen inside.
I'm going to show how big it is, actually.
Let's go and get involved.
This thumbnail is, yeah, 1.5 gigabytes in size.
This is a huge thumbnail because I have everything dropped within it like every asset that I've ever
used in my time was not ever used by the at least the ones that have these past few months.
Every photo that I've taken, as you can see, like I have my photo taken right there and actually I'm
going to move my face a bit so you would see what I'm talking about.
That's much better, as you can see all of those things right here.
If you scroll, if I scroll it down, as you can see, there are bunch and bunch and bunch in bunch
of different groups.
There are default open the group right here.
You can see there is a group within a group and he can see a bunch of other groups can see the group
right here.
With all the effects added, you can see this small group right here.
It's it's just an additional background group.
There is a small group right here and there is a text right there and there is a group right here and
there is a group right here with a budget, budget, budget, budget bunch of my photos that are the
obvious through all the different videos that if I want to build something for a new video, that's
all.
Just one click away for myself.
And there is also a background group right here as well.
That's a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge file that I've been using for my own YouTube channel.
So what you need to focus on is that if you want something to be in your thumbnail in advance, if you
want something to be advanced, drop everything right.
You could choose one of my templates as an example.
Choose one of my templates.
And if you have some photos, just drop it right here and you will.
If you don't know what where you should put a photo of what you should put.
Photo right here.
I'm going to select this one.
You should replace this image right here.
Put your photos right there to your additional background.
If you want to change the background as an example, you can change the background.
This is a background.
Put your background images right there.
You can actually change the background right here.
I'm going to go.
Let's say I'm going to make it a wooden background, or I'm going to make it a different wood background.
You can do that as well.
It's very easy, very simple.
It's not meant to be just one size fits all.
You can just change it however you want and change it based according to your needs.
Wrap your fonts if you have fonts that you want to use, pair your phones in advance.
Drop your assets from Pangai to mercy.
You whatever website it is.
Drop everything at one place and you should think of it as a legalese.
Maybe you should think of it as first gen.
Put all your assets in one place.
It should be a template.
In my case, this is my template used to be a template.
It should be your elements you can see like and arrows and things like that.
Drop everything where if you think in your mind that you need things like that, remember our thumbnail
concepts?
If you think you don't mind that, you need something like that?
Pop it right there.
If you have a.
Valentin, your mind rabid right there you have in other assets, backgrounds, photos that drop everything
in one place, collect everything in one place, and if you did photo in Photoshop, you can drop it
within a file and it'll be ready all in on camera.
You will need to upload everything in a photo.
You upload anything but at least have them in one folder, have everything prepared.
And if you have multiple download, if you got my templates and we have multiple thumbnails, you could
choose which template that you want to remember.
All images are changeable.
It's not necessary to lead the image.
Let's say you like this that lets you need background image right there, so you need to change the
image.
Think of a text that you want to use to the text to the font text.
Think of it like that.
Let me just disappear for a bit for you, for it to be a bit more clearly visible.
Just choose whatever you want to use first and only after that.
Only after that.
Think of about a range of things like that, because again, it's like Legos.
You need pieces first, then you will need your range and you might be thinking, Oh, I don't know
what pieces that I want.
Trust me, you do remember that I showed you different thumbnails.
Remember that I showed you different thumbnails, different.
You build YouTube homepage.
You saw that right.
Use those elements to see what elements you like.
Copy them and exactly not word for word.
But let's say you like that.
All right.
Well, let's say in my thumbnails, you like this arrow.
Look for a red arrow and think how you could implement that.
Don't worry, I'm going to be showing how I am doing that as well, how I am thinking about this as
well, how I'm building it.
Now this is actually a thumbnail for one of my latest videos, which I don't like because it doesn't
perform that well and I'm planning to change and I'm going to be changing it with you.
So you will be seeing exactly the same process that I go through, and it's the same thought process
that I go through.
Don't worry, all that you need to do is to prepare everything.
Have an app prepared if you don't have it installed yet and photo taken, take a photo of yourself if
you don't know what or how to take photos, or if you don't know what photo to take.
Trust me, it's the thing that you just cannot simply learn.
You will understand it as you go.
Let's say, let's say this photo, OK, this is the photo they wanted.
This is the photo.
OK, this phone fit.
Maybe this photo OK, this might have might fit, but decided to go with this one.
Or I could go with this one.
Maybe, maybe not.
Or I could go with something completely different, like the frustrated one or things like that.
You could go with a bunch of bunch of bunch of different photos.
Just prepare them all in advance.
It's all about the building.
And if you didn't like the photos, you took a photo of yourself.
They didn't like it or took another photo.
Oh yeah, one more thing.
Don't take a screenshot from your videos as the thumbnail photos.
Usually you want your recording.
Your videos are in 10 LP or maybe rare case scenarios, but if it's then maybe max, your image resolution
will be pretty low.
Plus, the video compression makes video result image resolution pretty low.
Take proper photos.
You can take a photo with your phone as well.
I don't.
Where did I put my phone?
But let's do it right here.
You can take photos with your phone as well.
It doesn't matter any latest phones in the last five years.
If you take the photo, they take a good take a good photos.
Take one photo just showing show images.
Remember faces an additional point of information.
Use that, and basically, this is how you prepare for the videos.
Don't worry if you have what you want to know where to get this done notebook back.
Go to the bonus structure.
I will be explaining how to get that right there.
So this will be it for the structure.
In the next lecture, we'll actually start building things and I'm going to do the next one.
Yeah.