

Which means, for example, will talk about how to choose colors and then actually import them into a graphic design app and then use tools to edit them. So I've made it an explicit goal here to not only teach you what to do, but also how exactly to do it. But after hearing people's feedback and looking back at it, I wish I had spent more time on the actual application of those concepts. Now, actually, a few years ago, I made another Mawr General course called How to Make Animated YouTube videos, and most of the concepts I teach there are still quite applicable and I think still relevant. They will help on things like creating logos for your channel and graphics for the actual videos. Thes are actually more general than just thumbnails. The first is to give you a general overview of design principles. Now you might be wondering what specifically will we learn? What can you expect to be able to do by the time this course is over? Well, there are two broad goals of the short course.

So with that in mind, I just encourage everyone to use these as principles as guidelines and not not a recipe were not cooking pasta here. So don't don't copy me or any other YouTuber, and that's not just because I don't want it personally, but it's because I think it's not the right strategy for growing on YouTube. And because of that, you'll have an audience built in because you have something unique, something some kind of niche. And so what I try to encourage people to do is develop something new because no one else can do exactly what you're doing. I'm going to try to give you the tools and ideas that you can take and then create your own style. It's not how creative work is supposed to work. But I don't want to take the philosophy that there's just kind of a 10 step process or five step process that you have to follow in order to get a great thumbnail. There are general principles and guidelines which make a huge difference, and I intend on teaching those in this course. But I think it will be useful for anyone making thumbnails regardless of the type of style or even type of video that they want to make now, as you can see, there really isn't any kind of set away or formula to create thumbnails. I make all of my thumbnails, and I chose these one specifically to kind of represent a wide spectrum of different styles that will cover in this course because it really isn't intended to teach you how to remake my style of thumb now.

So here are a few examples of the thumbnails which I think are my best work. I make short semi educational videos about things like economics, geopolitics and business, kind of just whatever interest me most. So who am I? Well, if you didn't join this course from my YouTube channel, you might be a bit confused. Four and give you a general overview of what's to come. This video is kind of intended as a quick introduction just to talk about what you'll learn, who this is. I hope this course meats and or exceeds your expectations. Introduction: Hello and welcome to this course on how to make great YouTube thumbnails.
