Here's one simple trick I stumbled across using three free, easily
accessible tools, to create highly effective video thumbnail images. This
video is called: "How To Improve Your Video Thumbnail Images - One Simple Trick".
It's all about making your thumbnail images stand out, look professional and
be attractive. This process may well save you a lot of time you currently take to
produce a thumbnail image as well as making your thumbnail images more
attractive to viewers. In the meantime, be sure to watch the video to the very end
where you'll be able to get details of how to download your free PDF copy
entitled the: "Top 10 Tips For Beginners To YouTube Ads. Hi, my name is Jeff
Laming of Video Cashflow and in this video we're going to look at one neat trick
on how to produce a stunning video thumbnail image that stands out, looks
professional, and can be very attractive to viewers. So let's head over to the
computer and get started. And whilst I'm making my way over there
be sure to read the message about to come across your screen right now.....
Welcome to the computer. There's three parts to this process. The first thing you
want to do is go to canva.com and open up Canva. I'm not going to go through the
initial steps of canva. I'm working on the basis that you are familiar with Canva
and we'll go straight to the background page. Now, I'm using a white background
because that's what I predominately use for my thumbnail images, and then I use
my colors for my own business which is navy blue and red. There's my logo down
there, and over here on the right I'm going to put in an image, and this now
leads us to the second part of the process, and this involves a bit of
software called Clipping Magic. You can find it at www.clippingmagic.com. Details will be put in the Description box below the video.
And what you want to do is go in and pick out an image that you want to put on your Canva screen. We'll
just click here and go through and pick up an image. And I picked up this image
that I used on a previous thumbnail because I want it to improve on this grey area
here. So what this little piece of software does.....you see here at the green
plus sign....well this tells you that if you just mark the area that you want to
keep - so in this case we'll keep my face, neck and shoulders - so that will do that -
and then the bit that you want to remove i.e. all the surrounding area, if you click
on the negative or minus button here, and then if you just start clicking here you can
see the outline going around the main structure, in this case my face. It looks
okay down that side - down this side it just probably need to make sure that the red
spot here doesn't go onto the main body and something's not quite right there so
we need to push that bit of outline out so click back on the green button -
this will clear away - and here we just want to just
edge that back so it's got the whole outline. So that is the outline that
we're going to go with. And then what we want to do next is come down here to the
background color. Now, we've got a choice here of various colors and you can choose
and we've got a green if you want a green color, a blue color there, a sort of
a beigey color, black if you want black, but because I said my logo is
predominantly white - we're just going to go with white - and that's the image there. Now
this particular software here - it's got a pricing structure - but for the purposes
of what we're going to use, we're now going to use the third piece of software
in this process, and this third tool is the Windows Snipping Tool. I don't know if you
can see this here properly, but this is....if you go to and key in "snipping tool" on
your Google search box and you'll come up with this. And basically this is what
it looks like once you download it. And if I just
expand on this....I can, but basically what happens is it allows you to just click
on here. And it will enable you to just outline the area that you want to snip
and....voila! And it enables you to save it as a PNG [file/document]. So what we're going to do now
is just go back to the Clipping Magic screen and I've got this tool at the
bottom here - you can't see this much - I'm just going to click on it. You can start seeing it
by going up in the corner here and I will just make sure - you don't want to get the
borders in - now I'm going to save that into my computer. So I've saved that
onto my hard disk and now we're going to go back into Canva and we're going to
upload that image. So there's the image here that I've uploaded and I'm just
going to drag....just click on it and put it over there.....and just drag it down
here.....and voila! There you are, as you can see
that blends in really nicely with the rest of the image. Obviously, I can move this
about and tidy it up a bit but obviously it gives you an idea
now of how you can improve your thumbnail images. You can do this with
existing thumbnail images as well. If you've got images that you think the
background could be improved upon. So hope you've found that simple three-stage
process useful and let's now carry on with the rest of the video. Before I
forget, here's the link for you to download your free PDF copy of the: "Top
10 Tips For Beginners To YouTube Ads". You'll will find the URL link in the
description box below this video. Thanks for watching. Look out for another video
on video marketing and YouTube coming your way next week.
Until next time......bye for now.
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