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here is a free tool that lets you design
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amazing thumbnails for your videos if
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you're not already giving some thought
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about creating thumbnails for your
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videos you're lagging behind a lot of
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people because thumbnail is the first
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thing your viewers will notice about
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your video and then they will decide
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whether to click on that video or not
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and you may have noticed the quality of
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thumbnails have improved drastically
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over the last few months at least for
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the videos that are getting more views
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because it is from bigger creators who
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know the importance and have got the
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resources to hire a professional graphic
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designer dedicated to creating
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thumbnails for their videos if you're an
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independent YouTuber or maybe just
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getting started here is how you can
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create amazing thumbnails designed for
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your videos with the help of AI so the
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tool I'm talking about is Microsoft
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designer I'm really shocked that
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Microsoft is offering something like
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this for free it has got a bunch of
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features and you can create different
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type of Graphics using it you can also
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generate images with the help of AI you
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still get free credits every month which
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you can utilize to create images using
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text prompt I like the fact that you can
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generate images inside it and then
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continue editing it using the existing
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tools inside the Microsoft designer such
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as adding a clip art an icon a graphic
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to your images or even text also so let
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me show you how I use it to create
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thumbnails for my YouTube videos so this
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is one of my videos the first step of
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creating a thumbnail is to think about
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what you want to showcase in the image
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so that the viewer can easily understand
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what the video is all about so this is a
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video of mine where I talk about a tool
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that helps me speed up my workflow by
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automating the process of editing my a
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roles it is saving my time and maybe 10x
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my productivity so in the thumbnail I
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want to showcase a person who is in
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front of his computer looking at the
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timeline of his video software and then
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I can add some image to describe what
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this video is about this is the website
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of Microsoft designer and you can see
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create with AI is highlighted I will
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click on images and then it takes me to
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a page where I can describe what type of
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image I'm looking for so I already have
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a prompt for this and already generated
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this image so my prompt was a man
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working on his desk and 70% of the image
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is showing computer screen which has the
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video editing timeline of Final Cut Pro
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and the user seems quite frustrated
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looking at it feels like he has been
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editing so you get the idea whatever you
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want in the image you can write it pro
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tip if you want to improve your prompt
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you can take help of chat GPT or any
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other AI tool you can put in your prompt
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and ask it to generate a nice prompt for
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creating a thumbnail so you can use that
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prompt so I used this prompt and I got
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four Images out of which this one was
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the most accurate that I wanted to use
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if in your case if you do not get it you
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can try it again if you take the help of
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chat GPT or any other AI tool to
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fine-tune your prompt you will get the
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image you're looking for this is the
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image which I found is the most
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appropriate for my thumbnail so I'll
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click on edit and then it will open
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inside this editing application by
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Microsoft designer where on the left
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hand side you will see a lot of tools my
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idea of creating a thumbnail for my
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video is add some text to this image
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because because this image alone is not
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describing what the tool is about and if
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the viewer is looking at the thumbnail
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he is not necessarily looking at the
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title of the video as well so I'm am
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going to add text to it but if I add
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text to the entire image the image will
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not be visible so here what I can do is
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I can separate this man this subject
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from the background and I'll put the
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text between the background and the
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subject so between the two layers I will
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add the text so here is a really nice
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trick that I use inside the Microsoft
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designer for creating this effect so
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what I'll do is I'll go to layers and I
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will duplicate this image so I have got
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two images I will align them so once
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they are aligned I will go to edit again
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and then I will click on this select and
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edit which is an amazing feature will
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let you click on anywhere on the image
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and it will use AI to select that
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subject so for example I want to select
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this man and I will click here and it
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will use the AI magic to select the
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entire subject once it is selected I
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will click on cut out which will make a
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cut out of the boy from the image but
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here you cannot see is because there are
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two images there are two layers so if I
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go to layer you can see that this is the
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layer and this is the cutout now that we
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have got the layers I will go to text
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and I will add something like 10 hours
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and I will select it make changes now
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you don't have to spend a lot of time
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doing these changes just make sure the
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text the font is Bold and the color is
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opposite of what the image is so that it
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is highlighted now right click on it and
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in position I will send it to back so it
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goes behind the subject um we'll have to
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crop this subject image so that I can
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select this text now I'm able to select
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the text and you can see it goes behind
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the boy between these two layers and
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looks really cool and all of this can be
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done for free I will write saved because
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10 hours doesn't describe anything saved
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can be a little smaller than 10 hours
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now I can download it in PNG format once
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it is downloaded I can use it in YouTube
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now one thing to remember is that
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Microsoft designer does not give you a
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template an exact dimension for your
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YouTube thumbnail which is 1280x 720
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pixels in the aspect ratio of 16x9 but
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you can use any other software to crop
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this image into 16x 9 or 12x 80 to 7x 20
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but what I do is I directly upload it to
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YouTube and it's totally fine for me so
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here click on upload file and then I
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will click upload and then save this
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image so I think this looks really nice
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and this you can create for free there
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is a paid alternative to this which is
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called canva which is also an amazing
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tool to create thumbnails for your
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YouTube videos and the Premium plan will
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give you a lot of templates to choose
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from which is something Microsoft
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designer does not have so you don't get
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inspiration if you have to get
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inspiration you have to look outside of
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this application Maybe we look at other
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YouTube videos of your computors and in
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this method you will have to spend some
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time looking for inspiration but in Cana
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there are a lot of templates you can
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look at to get inspired and not only
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that you can click on any of the
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template and then edit it accordingly so
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it saves a bit of your time but again it
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is a paid tool so you decide which one
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you like which one is good for you which
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one is Affordable for you if you can
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afford canva then absolutely you should
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because it will save a bit of your time
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but on a budget then Microsoft designer
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is the way to go let me know in the
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comments if you want me to create a
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video about canva as well how you can
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create thumbnails in canva I will see
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you in the next one till then take care
