How To Make A Thumbnail In Canva (For Youtube)

How to make a thumbnail in Canva for YouTube

Hey guys, welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a thumbnail in Canva for YouTube

So let's get into it. First of all, you're going to go to Canva.com and you can create an account on Canva for free

or you can get the Canva Pro. Creating an account is really easy

You can use your email address or your Google account and you will get an account on Canva

So on Canva, we can create logos, we can edit our videos, we will be able to create invitations

and much, much more. With Canva, we also create YouTube thumbnails for free, and it literally takes like five to ten minutes to create a very good thumbnail for your YouTube video to get more views and engagement

So let me show you how you can do it. First of all, once you get to Canva.com, this is going to be your dashboard

So in your dashboard, you can actually either go and click on created design and then click on custom size and select the size of your thumbnail

Or what you can do is, as a complete beginner, you can search for thumbnail in the search

bar right here and it will show you a lot of different templates that are available

You can see we have more than 17,000 templates on Kenva and there are free templates available

too. All you need to do is just customize the text and you will get your template. You can see

these kind of templates right here. We have this thumbnail here. Then we have this kind of

thumbnail. This one right here for a vlog. You can see very good templates are available or you can

start from scratch too. So let's actually select a template from here. I will show you how to

customize a template as well or how to create one from the scratch. So to customize a template

let's actually go for this one right here. So you can see this is a thumbnail design that is

already created for us. It's a template. And now all I need to do is just like simply change the

text and I will get a thumbnail. So let me show you how we do it. For instance, the topic for my YouTube

video is like top 10 for our YouTube channel. We create videos like this. So I'm just going to go for like

top 10 SEO softwares. So you will add your text and then what you're going to do is you're going to just

customize a little bit, adjust it like so and put it here

And then we have like thumbnail here written. But I'm going to delete this and here what I'm going to do is I'm going to add the text

which is going to be heading again. And we can actually just get rid of that text and customize it

Review. So you can see a thumbnail is ready in. just two minutes Like literally in one minute I have a thumbnail ready We have this person here and we got the text We got like a you know thumbnail ready I want to change the background for this thumbnail So we can change the color from here We can even change this person

Then we have different elements that I can use. We can use different text

If I want to change the text font, you will just select the text from here, select the fonts, and you will customize completely

So this is how we customize a template on Canva to create a thumbnail

Now let me show you how to create a thumbnail from the scratch. So it's going to be really easy

Quite similar, let's go with the same topic, top of SEO software review

Let me show you how we create something like this from the scratch. So here, first of all, let's change the background color

So this time I'm going to go with a yellow color for the background because it kind of like gets your attention

So here we have the background. Now we're going to go to the text. In text, we're going to insert our text first, which is going to be top 10 SEO software

Let's actually go with one by one. So I'm going to go with top 10. Then we're going to add another heading

Why I'm going for a different, you know, text because it's easy to customize them then

SEO softwares review. So I have my text added. I will customize it now

So before I customize the text, I'm going to go to the elements and search for different elements that we have

I want to, now it depends on you. If you want to add a person, let's say you want to add a woman on your

thumbnail. So you're going to search for a woman, go to the photos, and here you will find a bunch of

different women photos here. And what we can do is if you're using Kenva Pro, you will be able

to remove the background too. For instance, I have this image right here. You can select any of these

We have this. So you can see we have this image. What I can do is click on added image and click on

background remover and it will remove the background for me to add then I will just have this woman and I will

add her to my thumbnail so that actually becomes really easy if you're using kenva pro if you're not

using kenva pro what you can do is you can go to the elements and you can go to the graphic section you can

look for women and then you can look for an image that doesn't have a background or you can

simply add an image in a frame we can also do that and so there are different ways to

to add an image in the thumbnail. So I will just remove the background for this one and it will be ready

There you go. You can see now I have a you know image without a background. So for instance

this is like your own image That what I want to show you You will upload your image You go to the upload section on and canva click on upload file and upload your footage here And then you will just remove the background So this is what it will look like You will upload your image We go to the upload section on Kenba click on upload file and upload your footage here and then you will just remove the background So this is what it will look like You will have your own image on the thumbnail

So we have our text. In our text, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the lines and shapes

And in our lines and shapes, I'm going to look for a shape, which is going to be this one here

And I will add this shape in the background. And because it is going to be something like this

So if you want to go for this, so you can add it. That's what I'm going to do

I will just place it here for top 10. Let's actually customize the text first and then I will add the background

So to customize the text this time, what I'm going to do is I'm going to just select the text that we have

And we're going to go to the bold section, make it bold. Then we're going to go to the, you know, fonts

So for a thumbnail, the font should be really, you know, prominent and it should be bold and it should be not

italic i would say but you can go for an italic phone too if you want to create like an aesthetic

um a thumbnail for your um let's say for your vlogs and if you have an aesthetic video then you can

go for uh fonts like that too but for me what i'm going to do is i'm going to go for this uh you know

font right here so we will now expand it a little bit and place it here and then what we're going

to do is we're going to add a background here so you can see this is the background for this one i can

add another one of these and then I will change the maybe background color for this one

We can add right click and you will be able to send it in the background. So you can see this is

what it will look like. I did the same thing. We selected this as a background and then I changed

the color. Once you select an element, you can change the color for it. For instance, you just

click on it and then you will be able to change the color and the size as well. Then what you can do

is you can go to the element section here. In element, you can search for arrow

So once you search for arrow, you're going to switch to the graphics here

And in graphics, you can select this arrow here or you can go for the others ones as well

You can see there are different types of errors that we can add

So I kind of like went with this one here and then I added one here. Again, if you want to add like in thumbnail, you have something like from this to this

then you will add the arrow. And we have like this arrow here, which is very static

So different elements can be added with Canva. Once you have added it here, now you can see it looks pretty simple

What we can do is we can go to the element here and I can search for a gradient

And let find a good gradient to add in the background So you can see I go for the graphics because in graphics you can change the color according to your taste So this one is a yellow gradient that I see So what I can do is I can

maybe add this one in the background to add a little depth to it or I can go with something else

We have this one right here. We have this type of gradient as well. So let's select this one and

change the color. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to actually get rid of this gradient

and let's like this one and I'm going to actually add it in the background here like this you can see

now it has been added what I will do is I will click on this transparent option and make it very

transparent first of all let's actually change the color to and I'm just going to give it a darker yellow

color not the same color as the background because then it will just blend in and it won't pop out

and let me have here so for this one again I'm going to go with this color so you can

this is the color now. It's also transparent. You can see I made it late. Let's actually take it to

50 and we're going to send it to backwards. So you right click, send backwards and it will be sent

to the back. Now you can see it's in the background and this is where it looks like. We have like

a page run in the background now that's a little prominent and it's making our text and our image

pop out a little bit. When it comes to the image we can go to the elements again and maybe add

you know, some sparkles. Anything you want to, you can search on Canva. So let's see, we have these

graphics here. Okay, this is the one that I was looking for. And what I'm going to do is I can add

it here. And we will change the color to white. So you can see, this is where it looks like. I can

now add more elements into it. And then I will be able to use this thumbnail. So you can see we

have two thumbnails. This is the one. This is a template that I customized. And this is the one that I

start created from the scratch. This is this kind of template but we can also go for very cute

templates as well. If for instance you have a vlog channel then you will create something like this

for instance. I'm just going to select it. There you go. You can see this is one of the thumbnails that you

can go for. So all of these templates are available on Kenva or you can create something from the

scratch very easily. All you need to do is just go to the elements first upload the images then in

elements, you will be able to add a lot of different things to your thumbnail and create high

quality thumbnails for your YouTube channel. Once it's done, click on share, click on download and

download your thumbnail as PNG and upload on your YouTube channel. This brings us to the end of the

video. I hope that I was a big help. Don't forget to give this video a big thumbs up

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