How to Make a Professional Thumbnail in 4 Quick Steps
This course will cover how you can make a professional looking thumbnail in 4 quick steps using adobe Photoshop & adobe Lightroom
Course Description
This course will cover how you can make a professional looking thumbnail in 4 quick steps using adobe Photoshop & adobe Lightroom. I've also added a short canva tutorial for students that prefer to use that.
By utilizing what you'll learn in this course, you'll be able to create endless professional thumbnails with little to no design experience...in minutes!
I know that when most people try to start learning how to make thumbnails, they’re under the impression they need to master design & master certain software programs. Now, obviously the better you are at those, the better your thumbnails will be.
But what if you don’t want to “master” them right away? What if you just want to get the best looking thumbnail out quickly where you don’t have to invest weeks learning a new software program & all the different features that come with it?
I’ve been there myself & that’s exactly what sparked the inspiration for this course. This Course is for the person that needs to learn how to make professional looking thumbnails for either standalone videos (like YouTube for instance) or course thumbnails quickly.
By the end of this short course, you’ll be able to do that with very minimal training, you’ll be able to replicate it over & over again so you can do it consistently, & you’ll have created your very first professional looking thumbnail.
The version used in this Course is primarily Adobe Photoshop CC 2019. But you can apply the strategy you learn in this Course to any other version Adobe Photoshop....or even canvas (a free editing platform online).
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
- Anyone that wants to learn how to resize images properly without losing the quality of the image
- Anyone that wants to learn how to bring photos to life so they pop more on social media
- Anyone that wants to learn how to make professional looking YouTube Thumbnails quickly
- Anyone that wants a crash course in Adobe Photoshop (just the basics, but enough to get stuff done!)
- Anyone that wants a crash course in Adobe Lightroom (just the basics, but enough to get stuff done!)
- Anyone that wants a crash course in canva (it's the best free graphic design website out there)
- Anyone that wants to learn how to design quality looking images for social media their friends will be jealous of
- Anyone that wants to learn how to get more clicks on their YouTube Videos
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
- Internet access
- A desire to learn how to create thumbnails better

Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Make a Professional Thumbnail
10 Lectures
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How to Make a Professional Thumbnail Quickly 01:07 01:07
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Best Software Programs to Achieve High Quality Thumbnails 00:39 00:39
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Identifying Your Background _ Image Theme 02:15 02:15
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Resizing Your Image _ Bringing it to Life 05:43 05:43
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Layering, Quick Select, _ Branding 06:57 06:57
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Overlaying Text That Looks Great 07:32 07:32
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Ordering Layers _ Saving Your Picture with Metadata 03:28 03:28
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How to Create Thumbnails Using Canva 05:08 05:08
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How to Use Canva to Create Images for Social Media and YouTube Thumbnails 06:51 06:51
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How to Apply What You Have Learned 02:10 02:10
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