OK, we're here now in this lecture, will be doing some practical thinking I'm going to be using thumbnail
templates just to make it as fast as possible, as quick as possible to get rid of this as quickly as
possible, then I'm going to be using a serial thumbnail sketch to test different thumbnails and see
how they will actually look like and what reaction from the audience will I get?
Now, one thing that you need to remember is that a lot of people don't know and don't realize is that
you are not stuck with one thumbnail.
When you create a thumbnail, let's say you will use this template and transform into your thumbnail.
If you are getting very low, click through rate very low S.T.A.R..
You can change it.
You can change any time you want.
Let's say next time I will do maybe this one.
Maybe this thumbnail will perform a bit better, and I'm going to change it to this thumbnail.
So think of it like that.
You're not stuck with one thumbnail.
You can change it however you want.
And you know what?
Let's.
In this lecture, let's change this.
I'm going to be using one of my old thumbnail templates here, and I'm going to be using Photoshop here.
And you know what?
I want to create a video about.
I want to create a thumbnail about one of my latest videos, and it's about editing videos faster.
So this is one of those.
It's extremely simple thumbnail.
And yeah, it could be better.
We could work on this to make it a bit better.
But you know what?
Let's use this thumbnail and two to four hour template.
I'm going to copy this one, and I'm going to paste it just on the top.
And you know what I will do.
I will go and find the photo of the girl and replace it with my own image right here.
Remember, it's this this right here is actually not just a photo, it's actually a mask where you can
actually put your image.
I want to take the image and just put it right here, and it's a bit too dark.
We can work on adjusting the brightness as well.
It's not going to be a huge worry and huge issue.
But yeah, that's an image that we could use because it was extremely simple to change it as it happens
very, very quick.
We're very fast.
And then what we can do, it actually is we can work on overlays.
Do we need some overlays?
Actually, we do.
It could be good, but let's say doing some overlays and test different overlays.
Money overlay?
Yeah, it actually looks pretty good.
Let's use money overlay and it's going to turn on the curves.
And the adjustment is pretty bright.
It looks pretty good.
And now what we'll do is we'll change the text.
It's open this one, your title and your subtitle you the get judges can show you.
So because of the the limitations, then when you turn this on, because I forgot to show you just where
I'm thinking I was clicking all in the layers because of the limitations.
Now, right here are the titles that you seeing.
They are not actual texts, they are simple images.
But what we will do is work to hide them all right now and we will add the text, whereas our text is
right here.
And yeah, oh, by the way, editing templates I have shown that were what font we are using.
But yeah, here I would just create as quickly as possible and write, edit, worry about the font.
We're going to do color.
We're going to change this.
We're going to change this right now.
I'm going to select this one.
I'm going to select the bold font.
By the way, this is one of the fonts from the font that I used.
I'm going to center this text like that and change the color to maybe white.
Let's let's try white.
And you know, what I will do is I'm going to go with the main title.
I'm going to copy it, Command C, and then I'm going to select my text right here.
I'm gonna go to edit and I'm going to paste effects.
Do you see how different it?
Because immediately popped up, which looks pretty good.
I'm going to make this one a bit larger like that and it faster.
And you know what?
Let's make the color yellow, because when you go on your homepage, you'll see that there are a lot
of yellow colors there because you'll have a pull actually pops more, and then we are actually going
to show the system.
OK, now we need a subtitle, and for the subtitle, you actually use again our tool, our text tool,
and OK, uh, increase your ad speed by times.
I don't know.
We'll just we just use a random text and I will actually use the same pace effects that we did in the
previous one.
I will send you to text to make it look a bit better, and the text is way too big.
I'm going to select control or command and make it like that smaller boom.
And you know what's with the issue?
The text we need.
You don't need to be a yellow color.
The white one will be good and as you can see it immediately, just working from the thumbnail, it
looks pretty good.
We can actually adjust some brightness settings as well.
We can go and go and just brightness settings right here.
I'm going to need to increase the brightness a bit and you know what I will do.
I will actually adjust some effects or not just on this one, but I'm going to copy this and adjust
more effects on, you know, what I'm going to control.
See the brightness and then control the edges to make it double brightness, we could change, but overall
the text and I'm not here.
You know, we can put it on the top here and we can actually adjust.
I don't need actual effects right here.
We can just turn this off or we can actually use, you know what?
No.
Don't turn this off.
We'll actually use this.
You know what?
What's doing?
You see, it's some kind of general Typekit right here, which looks pretty, OK, I'm going to go and
just the brightness and things I see to make my image actually a bit brighter.
OK, it looks pretty OK, but I need a saturation as well.
I'm going to go do adjustments and I'm going to go with the vibrance and go to layer just to see where
it actually goes and adjust the vibrance just a bit and adjust saturation just a bit.
Don't go too much.
Vibrance can be cranked up, but don't adjust saturation too much.
And you know what?
Let's adjust the contrast a bit as well.
A little less contrast because you have this one less contrast.
It looks better, and overall brightness is should go a bit down to decrease this one right here and
then just increase it right here.
As it can see, this thumbnail looks pretty beautiful.
Would you click that?
Would you click that or not?
Maybe you will maybe horn.
I don't know.
It depends on who you are and depends what type of videos you want to watch again.
Different audiences will be different now.
We have your logos selected here as well.
I actually don't use logos for my video, so I can just turn this off to make it a bit more clearly
visible.
And as it gets, you have beautiful brick background.
You can actually change the background of your one.
Maybe you want a wooden background, I think would a background might look a bit better, just a bit?
Or maybe dark wood.
Maybe this one will look a bit better as well.
Now it's all up to your preferences.
This looks.
I think this looks pretty good.
It looks immediately noticeable and you immediately see that.
And you know what I would add I would go to my regular thumbnail templates and I will go and find some
of camera or something like that.
I'm going to copy this one man and imported command view right here.
And you know what I will do.
I will put it on top of the brightness adjustment because I don't want this to go darker.
And yeah, I'm going to go and make this one a bit larger and maybe change the blend mode to something
else.
I don't know.
The screen may be, yeah, it'll look OK in the background.
I'm going to increase it in size like that.
It's likely that the camera, you can go with it something different.
If you want it to look a bit a bit better, it will just get a bit more attention.
It will look a bit better.
And this case see would just see that in a few clicks in a few minutes because we had already tap with
prepared and we can't do it on different Typekit as well.
Don't worry, I'm going to actually let you stick the phone.
You know what?
We can actually choose this one.
This template is actually extremely simple, extremely straightforward, and I will use I.
I will even use the same image just for you to show that it's actually much easier.
Come and see you right here, which I know that and you can go with Command V and I can select this
one and put the photo actually right here and do and resize this.
It's not a to the best photo.
I could find something else like the like, no, like this one.
But yeah, we could actually do that.
I could actually just give some adjustments as well.
The key point of this thumbnail is actually simplicity.
It should be as simple as possible.
Let's go with right.
That's right.
True story.
And then we can go and select Helvetica new because of American.
You looks pretty good.
No, no, no.
Don't go with everybody, can you?
I'm going to go with bebés of this new sector.
Pretty good as well.
Make the color whites for it to be visible.
I'm going to do that.
I'm going to center the terrorists and I don't need this anymore.
I'm going to center this here.
I'm going to go and rotate this a bit.
Just like that, I don't want exactly the same font.
And for the subtitle I'm going to control, see that I'm going to hide this.
And right here is I need to do a edits and paste effects right here because it immediately change that
and I can actually adjust some here and some different stuff as well.
But because you're right here, I can just see the error will change a bit and I can adjust up here
just like that to make it the same way as a previous text, true story and your title.
Of course, I don't want to have your title text here.
I'm going to go.
Another one is, um, let's add maybe I don't know some type of text.
Let's see.
But if you use video, let's make something very simple video editing jr, or no matter the struggles
of those video editing struggles, it will be like some kind of longest video editing struggles, true
story or things like that make it a bit more, I don't know.
Like dramatic.
I'm going to censor this one.
I'm going to go and control go, and I think it's come.
Control the doing stories, but don't don't don't stretch it, it will look awful.
You know what?
No, I don't think that that will needs additional effects.
You know, I don't like additional effects.
I'm going to delete the outline.
I don't know.
It's, I think, a selected the wrong layer.
Yeah, this one X and the outline.
No, no.
You know what?
Let's delete all effects because without the facts, Gupta actually looked a bit better and just add
outline.
Maybe just a little bit of outline, because you don't always need a 3D effect to create a bit of radius
to make a bit clearly visible.
Yes, like that.
Or you can just I can just go and change something completely different.
I'm going to go with make it only editing struggles and select only the text.
See, the key point here is that I work as I go, and you should too.
You should work as you go as well.
I made this now text a bit more bold and you can you know what I can to make this yellow one just like
that?
You know what?
No, this will not look good.
Let's go to bebés again.
We have only one tap text was admitted larger.
Let's go.
Let's let's make the only bebés and make it larger.
I'm going to hold command right here or control if you want and do something like that.
And as we can see, this thumbnail will actually work.
This thumbnail will actually generate some clicks, trust me.
And because I am actually I want more stuff edited, I would actually add a complicated right here vibrance
adjustments, and I could actually add more vibrance and add a bit more saturation to maybe because
saturated colors usually look much better.
And as you can see, it's another thumbnail that we created just very quickly right there in there,
and we can do another one.
I don't mind, I don't mind at all.
We can go and find great images if I want.
And yet not this one will not work for me.
This one will not work for me.
OK, yeah, that we can actually just this one.
This one is actually pretty, pretty good.
I love it.
This is a very beautiful image I'm going to control.
See this?
You know what?
I'm going to use a different image now with my image.
Let's go and do this one.
I'm going to control.
See this and control these here.
Visible and just something like very amazed face.
I'm going to put it in under this image right here.
I want to put it right there.
OK, good.
Now I'm going to select this because it's it's actually pretty weird, but OK, I can make it bigger.
It's it's actually what the problem is that the image is actually not optimized for this type of thumbnails.
But OK, whatever I can, we can use something like this looks something like this.
You can see it's it's actually pretty OK.
It's not that bad.
I actually love it.
You can add a title here.
You know what I will just copy from the previous thumbnail?
Where was it?
I don't remember.
I think it was this one.
Yep, uh, command c.
And it was right here and we ended up OK.
It's it's actually it's actually in a mask under a mask.
So that's why it was not.
It's not visible immediately.
Other mask means it means that the image will always only appear only in this red square.
That's what you get in the template to make it a bit bigger.
I don't like how it actually goes and sticks to decides.
Make it a bit like that.
I will go in effects and just make off-line a bit thinner think struggles.
And this is the font.
I know this for sure.
Adding struggles.
You know what?
I'm going to write a different text, and you know what?
I'm going to press option right now.
We're all if you can.
If you want to put it a bit to the top like that and just do it, then those troubles re resolved.
And I'm going to make this into the bold font talk because I know this for sure.
It was written in a bold font and I will fix it like that, and I'm going to make it white color like
that again.
I'm going to go and select this virus adjustment because I like how I adjust the vibrance there, and
I'm going to put an image mask right here.
And as you can see, this is another successful thumbnail we created now three thumbnails, three different
time zones.
I think it was three three, three different thumbnails in a matter of minutes.
The key point here is what you are doing, what you have planned in advance.
And key point is that you make as you go can plan everything, but sometimes it won't go well.
Sometimes you don't know how to do that.
I cannot teach you everything about editing, but as you can see, we have a mask right here.
It's available, it will be available in a thumbnail templates.
It's OK.
Don't worry about that and everything.
You don't know how to put an image in the mask.
You don't need that.
You actually don't need that.
You also don't need studies because if I would have put just a regular layer above that, it will look
exactly the same.
I'll just did it for my own convenience and you and your own convenience, if you will get a thumbnail
template, I can actually change the curvature right here, but and make it a bit.
War circular, but now we actually don't need that.
So it's not, and it's not the big issue.
You don't need such things to connect you to go with a pen to an adjusted a bit more words, a pencil.
I don't see that as opposed to what you and I get a just a bit more.
Make it a bit more circular and things like that.
You actually don't need that.
Key point here is that you need to work on thumbnails to convey as much information as possible through
your face or emotions or through other individual faces.
For example, you can use not just your face, but as an example like this lady's face.
It's a happy video.
You know that, and you can actually change this accordingly.
It's not the happy guy, but this one is happy.
You're you can actually change this accordingly as well.
The same with this one was same with any other one like this.
That means they don't have anything in it.
They don't have any faces in it.
But you understand immediately what this video is about, which camera is that is the best this or that
camera and actually the template.
They're both in a circular mass and everything is actually you'll see right here, everything is actually
text coded and you can exactly see what's it?
What is it all about?
Can can see everything right here and what is what, and you can actually change it however you want.
Like right here, for example, this square is not part of a mask can just move the text however you
want, and it will not be in a mask.
So it's not a big issue here.
Point.
Again, here is prepared all the assets in advance and sit down and create thumbnails based on the thumbnail
principles that we started in one of our first lectures, thumbnail principles or to YouTube.
Find a thumbnail that you like, find a thumbnail that attracts you the most and you will feel like
it to be more attractive to your viewers and just try to copy none of one for one, but try to copy
the elements that you have to like.
What did you like?
Did you like the facial expressions?
Take a photo, take your camera and take a photo of yourself like that.
Did you like the colors?
Make colors more vibrant.
Did you like the text?
How was it written or how it was placed?
Do that copy each and every element.
See at this is look.
Look at this as an analytical review of each and every thumbnail and adjust it accordingly to your own
needs.
That's all the secret about the thumbnails.
It's not something that you can easily do this.
Or do you use this color or things like that?
It's not like that.
This is not like that.
It's all about what you feel like.
You get you most use, make it look as beautiful as possible, and it gives you all of my all of those
thumbnails.
If I just decreased in size, zoom out.
They all look good.
They all attract attention.
They can all attract attention.
They are all.
It's deep.
Even some or some of them are very simplistic.
But you know exactly what?
See what's all about?
You can go and see this exactly how it's it looks like this one is Dr. Murray all.
I love this one.
In particular, it's still be great if you're doing a lot.
Boxing's things like that, you can put the text.
I mean, the images of the product in the background, it will look beautiful.
This one is great for comparison.
If you're doing comparison with this, one is great for the product of uses it gives you.
No matter how I zoom out, it will look beautiful.
This one is that we've already seen this one is good.
If you're doing vlogs or stories or things like that, then this one is actually good as well for any
type of video.
And this one is actually my own thumbnails so you can copy everything that you want and you will get
all the thumbnails templates in the end of the course.
And you can just check it out if you want.
This one is do you saw how we transformed the thumbnail that you saw into this one?
And it looks just amazing.
So my friends, this is for this lecture, and in the next lecture, we'll actually try to recreate
the same things, the same thumbnails to see that how simple it is and how you actually don't need to
think way too much about that.
Someone's your next lecture.