I’m going to show you how I make my Youtube thumbnails and it’s actually a lot more simple than you might think so what do these all have in common you can see there’s a subject usually me and then a background so let’s start with how to get the subject which is Typically going to be you we have Minecraft and I’m just gonna go on my server with replay mod the mod hopefully you know what replay mod is alright so here we have actually what I did for my last thumbnail something I use a lot is uh the citizens mod you can just empty See create like boom like that you can have them equip arm or whatever that’s pretty useful for thumbnails but if you don’t want to get this plugin for a server what you can do is go make a green screen box this is my my green Screen box I have here I use this thing a lot so basically all you do is for your thumbnail however you want to be looking turn your replay mod on and then just look a certain direction stand against the walls you can green screen It later and I don’t know say we want to look like this boom we got that let’s disconnect go into the replay mod file and then as we can see here what I usually do is switch my fov to 30. it makes you fill up more of the screen and Then we’ll just take a screenshot so I don’t know something like this this looks not bad right I can see this in thumbnail so boom F2 to screenshot and also make sure you probably don’t want to have render name tags on if it’s a thumbnail so turn that off so boom There’s my subject done now I don’t have a particular thumbnail I’m making right now but let’s just do a random example right I’m looking at something so let’s just uh get a background and a tip actually that not everybody uses is this the set biome command you can make the Grass a lot Greener if you make it a mushroom fields or a jungle biome so what I’m just gonna do here is set block glass take the two corners go down here and then do the command slash slash set bio mushroom fields re-log and then boom grass is greener alright so Now simple background we’re just gonna what I do is just get a reap them one shot so I’ll just stand back and then boom log out go to the replay mod file once again and literally you’re just gonna do the same process just take a screenshot lower your fov if you want to Usually looks better and then let’s just get a screenshot like I don’t know something like this okay so there we have the background screenshot and the subject next what I’m going to do is go into photop.com I mean you can use Photoshop whatever but for my tutorial I’m just going to use Photo P because it’s pretty simple um you can either new project or open I’m open from computer basically go into your screenshots just take everything you just took plop it in all right so here we go this is where it gets cool See this tool right here it’s called magic wand click that click the green and then press the delete key on your keyboard and boom takes out the green screen so just get rid of all the greens click press delete until you have this just your subject next file export as PNG and boom your subject is done close that one out and now we can just do file open in place go to my downloads and put me there so now we have a thumbnail you know I don’t know what the video is about but we have a thumbnail so far What I’ll do uh next is usually put something on screen it really depends on what the video is about but let’s just put like uh I don’t know if you want text this is the website I use for text right it’s called My fonts.com let’s just say thumbnail right click this save Image as now I’m going to open and import that then I’m going to use the magic one tool again and take out the black like this and then I’m just going to export that pretty simple I’d say if you need to re-watch this re-watch and See how I did it now we’re gonna go back to this one open and place the thing I just downloaded and boom we have the text so uh let’s just move this around if you want to resize it you can do edit and then free transform and yeah boom Next you want things to pop out more because this looks pretty stale what you can do is layer layer style and then stroke it’ll make it look like this so I usually use stroke drop shot a little bit sometimes outer glow that one could look cool like that but it’s all Customizable whatever you want to do but the real kicker is right here if you click on these other layers what you can do is go to image adjustments brightness and contrast and change the brightness and contrast like that you don’t want to overdo it but you might want to do it More than you think it’s good it’ll make it really pop out and then next adjustments Vibrance I use this one a lot ta-da that looks a lot better right and then we’ll just do the same thing for this layer the background same exact process make it brighter more contrast And then just up the saturation a little bit and what you might want to do is also go to filter blur I’ll use gaussian blur on like a few pixels like like that and boom that’s the whole thumbnail let’s just get a YouTube logo PNG why not because that’s what this video I’m Making is about how to make a YouTube thumbnail let’s get this one save that image okay open if it’s not already green screen you might just have to do the same process take out the background but you already know how to do that because I just showed you so it looks Like I’m doing it really fast but that’s because I’ve done this so many times for every thumbnail so just it’s just practice but as we see we have the YouTube logo now and I’m just gonna do the layer again later style stroke uh you know it doesn’t look the best but It’s just an example we can add a few effects but really that’s kind of the whole process I use for every thumbnail literally everything I just showed you is all I think about so yeah looks good file export as PNG and you should be good to go if that’s the right Dimensions all right that’s that’s it if you have questions please comment I’ll try to respond to them but yeah thanks for watching Video Information
This video, titled ‘Minecraft Thumbnail Tutorial in 5 Minutes’, was uploaded by RasplinExtras on 2023-05-25 00:31:27. It has garnered views and [vid_likes] likes. The duration of the video is or seconds.
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