How to Create Video Thumbnails
An Adobe Express Tutorial
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4 min readAug 23, 2022
You’ve started a YouTube channel. You filmed a video. You’ve spent 10+ hours editing the video. You are incredibly proud of your creation and upload it to your channel.
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In your analytics, you can see that YouTube is suggesting it to people, so why aren’t they watching?
“Never judge a book by its cover.”
We’ve all heard it. Do we still judge book covers? Of course. People will judge your YouTube video (book) by its thumbnail (cover).
Let’s get you more views by creating an eye-catching and clickable thumbnail!
For my thumbnails, I use Adobe Express on my iPad Pro. From what I understand, you can use Canva similarly if you do not have an Adobe subscription.
Step One: Create a New Project
