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If you're producing your own Y ouTube videos , you may want to add a thumbnail to your creations. That's easily done in Photoshop!
Steps
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Open a New Photoshop Document. Press Ctlr + N or go to File and then New .
- 1280×720 or 1920×1080 will be good for a thumbnail.
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Startup with the background. Fill the background with a gradient. To do this, select the gradient tool (hold down the Paint Bucket tool). Choose a fill option from the gradient samples. Then press and hold to make a starting point and ending point.Advertisement
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Add a picture to the thumbnail. For example, you might add a logo. To add that image, go to File then Place .
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Add text. In order to do this press "T" and type what you want to display.
- Add some effects to the text if desired, such as drop shadow. To do this, hit Drop Shadow from the little FX icon.
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Put a rectangle behind the text (optional). Hold down the shape tools icon and select the rectangle tool. Then drag in your image to draw the rectangle; decrease its opacity to 50% or 25%.
- Make sure that the rectangle layer is under the text layer.
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Save the thumbnail. Go to File and choose Save for web . Select PNG-24 and press Save .
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