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How to Design Featured Images for Website _ Canva Thumbnail Tutorial ( 2023 )
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Jan 24, 2024
In this 2023 tutorial video, viewers will be taken through a step-by-step guide on designing featured images for websites, specifically using Canva for creating captivating thumbnails. Whether you're a content creator, blogger, or website owner, this tutorial provides practical insights and clear demonstrations on utilizing Canva's design tools to craft eye-catching featured images. Enhance the visual appeal of your website and make your content stand out with this comprehensive tutorial, offering tips and techniques for creating engaging thumbnails that captivate your audience.
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Hi everyone, welcome to Kito Blogging and in this video I will show you how you can design a feature
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image for your blog post or design a thumbnail for your YouTube channel
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So here I have created a thumbnail like this for my YouTube video and you can also use
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this feature image in blog post as well. So let's check how you can create a thumbnail like this inside Canva
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So here you will get a lot of templates in Canva. So here as you can see that if you click on add new page here and you'll
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you can add different templates like this. So as you can see that this text is looking quite good and you can also copy the color scheme
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from these templates or let's click on here and as you can see that the text is here
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it is the Decalo type black. Okay. Now let's click on here and as you can see that here you will get a lot of templates to
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start or if you can start from scratch. So here we are going to start from scratch
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So, what I can do is I will click on create a design and I will select this option custom size
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Now I will type like 1920 into 1080 pixel and let's click on create a new design
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And here you can name this project. So let's add like thumbnail design like this
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Now let's add a background color here. So I will click on here and I can choose a background color from here like this and you can
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see that you can use gradient color or you can use black color as well
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So let me just grab the black color from here. So I will click on here
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Let me just unlock this and I will grab this black color
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And I will click on here and I will paste that hex code and let me just add the black color
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So this is my brand color. So I use this black color most frequently in most of my projects
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So you can grab your brand color in the background. Now let's add the text
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So to add the text, you can use any of the text. So for this I will go to the text here and here let's grab a heading here like this
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Now the heading is added so you can place the position like this
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So if you want to add it to the center then you can add it like this or you can add it
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it to the center like this and here you can change the typography so here you can use different
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font style like this add a heading so let's add the heading like how to design thumbnail
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let's hit enter now i'll add like using Canva so this is the topic so let's add it like this
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now here you can choose any of the font so let me just choose the
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unisance font here and I will select it as bold and I will set it as italics Now I will click on here and I will change it to uppercase And as you can see that now it is looking quite good
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Now I can rearrange the position and I will click on here and I can reduce the line spacing
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here like this. And as you can see that now it is looking quite good and here you can reduce the font size
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So let's keep it around 80. like this and let's add some thumbnails here so to add it let me just grab some templates from
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here so what I can do is I will download this thumbnail so let me just download it here
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okay now the thumbnail is downloaded now I will select all the images and I will
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upload it back to Canva okay now it's uploaded let me just drag
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drag the images like this and I will assign the position like this now I will click on here
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and I will also assign it here and you can see that it is aligning from the top now
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let's align from the bottom now let's click on here let's resize it and let's align it
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properly like this and let me just add it here Let me just align it like this
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Now I will select all the four here and let me just resize it and I will keep it center
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like this. And as you can see that our thumbnail is ready
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So you can add different aesthetics to your thumbnails to look it more professional
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So here in this I can grab some of the elements like this
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So let me just grab this element here and I will paste it here
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And let's grab it here as well and let's paste it here
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And as you can see that you can adjust the position a little bit
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Okay, now it is looking quite good. Now let's recreate this thumbnail from scratch
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So for this, what I can do is I will create a new canvas here. So I will click on plus here
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Now here I have added a text here, animated typing text. text effect
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So let's click on T here to add the text. So by default it is taking the same settings
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So here let me just delete it and let me just add a heading first like this
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As you can see that it is the just plain heading. So if you want to use different font style, so you can grab that
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So let's copy it and I will paste it here. As you can see that it has grabbed this stylings here
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It is the banger or you can use different font from here So let add this font family So I will click on copy here and I will paste it here like this I will delete it and I can reduce the font size to 144
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I can reposition the size and here let's click on here animated typing text effect
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So let's add here animated. text effect like this
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Now let's add a underscore like this. Now you can adjust the line height, line spacing here
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So let's reduce the line spacing here. And you can also make it italics
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But in this point the italics is not available. So let's use the same font, Unisans
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and let's increase it and let's use the italics one. Like this. Now let's check. Now you need to add a WordPress icon here. So you can simply
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search for WordPress PNG and you can download a WordPress PNG to Canva. So I have already
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uploaded that logo. So let me just grab it here. So you can easily manage your frequently
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used images in folders in Canva. So, let's increase the size of this logo like this
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Now let's add a border like this. So for this, what I can do is I will go to elements and I will grab a square shape like
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this and I can reposition it like this. So let's increase the size a little bit
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All right, now I will click on here and I will remove the color here
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I will click on border style and let's add a border width of seven
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So I'll click on here and I will add a white border here
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Now you can also play around the opacity like this and you can see that a white border
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is now added. Now you can also reposition the placement of this border
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Now let's add a background effect here. to these images. So for this I will add an abstract image
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So I have already uploaded it to my folder. So let's go to project here
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Let's go to abstract and here I have added the abstract image like this
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So this is the PNG image so I can resize it like this and I will right click on here
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and I will click on the layer and I will click on send to back
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Now, now we click on here again. So I will hold Sift and click on the section and I can reduce the opacity like this And as you can see that our background is added like this So if you want to select the layer you can just hold control and you can select background
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layer like this or if you want to select front layer, you can do that or you can slide it
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down and you can select this layer. But I recommend you to use control to select the backward layers or the below layers
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Okay. Now we can add an effect like this, key to blogging
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So let's do that so I can search for an element like search
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I can click on see all here and let me just choose an element from here like this and I can
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reposition it and I can place it here and I can zoom it like this
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this let's add a text here let's reduce the size to 36 or let's it for the 16 and I
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can place it here let's change the color to black let's add key to blogging
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like this and let me just reduce the size like this so we have added it
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So we can also resize the change the position. So let's click on the background layer here and I will click on here and I will click on lock position
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Now let's click on the border and I will click on here and I will set lock position so that
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it will not move from its position. Now I can simply select both elements and I will click on group and I can change the position
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as well like this. Now you can select this option right click on here and click on here
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click on lock and click on lock position so that the position will not change but you can change
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the text here like this and you can also do the same here so let's click on border here and let's
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select it here and let's go to layer and let's go to send to back so that the border will be
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in the back and you can select this element WordPress logo and you can select the text so basically
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you can use the background layers and the border layers in the backward section and you
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can set the text and the logo in the front end section
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So you can easily edit your thumbnails in Canva very easily. As you can see that we have created the thumbnails and it is looking quite good and if you
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want to increase the size you can unlock it and you can grab it here and you can increase
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size a little bit and you can place it to the center align like this and you can also
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So, place the logo like this. So as you can see that we have created two thumbnails in Kenba very easily
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And if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button
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And I will see you in the next video. Bye bye
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