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Want to learn how to create your own YouTube thumbnail using PowerDirector? 🎨🖼️

In this video, I'm learning how to use PowerDirector to design an attractive thumbnail for YouTube. Whether you're just starting a channel or want to improve the look of your videos, learning to make your own thumbnails can give you much more creative control.

A great thumbnail is one of the first things viewers notice when they see your video. 👀

In this tutorial, you'll see how you can work with:

🖼️ Images and backgrounds
✍️ Text and titles
🎨 Colors and visual effects
✨ Layers and design elements
📐 Positioning and resizing
🔥 Eye-catching thumbnail layouts
🎬 PowerDirector's editing tools

The goal isn't just to make a picture—it's to create a thumbnail that clearly tells viewers what your video is about before they even click it!

If you're new to PowerDirector, don't worry. This video is about learning the process and improving your thumbnail-making skills step by step.

Experiment with different fonts, backgrounds, colors, effects and layouts until you develop a thumbnail style that fits your channel.

💡 THUMBNAIL TIP: Keep your main subject large, use easy-to-read text, and avoid overcrowding the image. Your thumbnail still needs to look good when it's displayed very small.

🎬 LEARN • CREATE • IMPROVE

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💬 COMMENT and tell me how you create your thumbnails.
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00:00Hello, hello, welcome guys. So today I would like to show you how I create my thumbnails with PowerDirector 365.
00:10So let's get started. So I usually will take this background, here's my background, and I put it there.
00:19Then I get my pic that I'm going to use, and I put it there. So you see Queen Elizabeth
00:26show up.
00:28And then I get my, the frame that I would like to use. And this is the frame that I
00:39would like to use.
00:39So now you don't see the pic. So I'm going to click Tools, click Mask Designer, okay?
00:51So now you see the frame, right? And this also moves, guys, because this is a gift.
00:56So I like to use these moving gifts and turn them into frames. And I got it from Google.
01:05Okay, I'm going to stop it. So now I click the square. Then I click Invert the Mask.
01:12So it's going to invert it. So now you see Queen Elizabeth II.
01:16So now I turn this into a frame. Okay, which I love to do this.
01:24So this is how I create my frames for my thumbnails. Okay, which is so cool.
01:34And I click OK.
01:35Okay, so now you'll see Queen Elizabeth, right?
01:41And if I make this bigger, which is so cool, it moves.
01:45See? That's cool, right?
01:48I know.
01:49Okay, so now the next thing I do is I want her to be outside of the frame.
02:00And I want to make her bigger.
02:02So I'm going to move her.
02:03So I'm going to slide her over here.
02:08I'm going to make her bigger.
02:15And I want to make sure you see I want her to be like that.
02:23But she's a little too big.
02:25So I'm going to make her a little bit smaller because we need to see her crown.
02:29So that's cool.
02:31So I like it like this.
02:33This is fine.
02:34So maybe I'll make her a little bit wider.
02:39Yeah, that's cool.
02:40That's cool.
02:41Just like that.
02:42Okay.
02:43I'll click OK.
02:45Now I want to get another frame.
02:50That's one frame.
02:51I like to put a frame and a thinner frame over this frame.
02:56So now I'm going to get a red frame.
03:00And I'm going to put the red frame over it.
03:03So here's the red frame.
03:06And it's going to go over it.
03:08You see how nice that's coming out, guys?
03:10There you go.
03:12Okay.
03:12Not done.
03:13So now I'm going to go to the text.
03:17And now I have to put the text in.
03:23And what I'm going to put for the title is, I'm just going to put wonderful facts about Queen Elizabeth
03:31II.
03:32So that's what I'm going to put.
03:34So.
03:36Okay, guys.
03:38So wonderful facts about Queen Elizabeth II.
03:44Now for the escalation.
03:49Okay.
03:50So now I click OK.
03:54So you can see how it looks.
03:56But now I'm going to click here again on the text.
03:59You see how it looks.
04:01Now I've got to fix it up some more.
04:03So I click it.
04:04I'm going to put it in both.
04:07And then I'm going to have it be in the middle.
04:11I like it center.
04:12And then I'm going to click border.
04:14Because I'm going to make the border red.
04:17And then I just like to make it smaller to start it out.
04:23And then I'm going to change it to a fancy, a font.
04:27Because Queen Elizabeth II was a fancy woman.
04:33So I'm going to use this font, which is really pretty.
04:38I usually use this for Barbie, too.
04:41It's a fancy font.
04:44Sometimes I use it for Barbie, not a woman.
04:47But see how pretty that is, guys?
04:50So that's a cool font to use.
04:52So I like to make it big.
04:54So make sure that it fills out everything.
04:57And now, do I like it better like this?
05:04Or, oh.
05:06It looks nice like this.
05:08But it kind of takes some of the words away.
05:11So I'm going to border.
05:12I'm going to make it like that.
05:15So I think that looks good.
05:16And that's fine.
05:17So let's do it.
05:18So now I click OK.
05:20And there is my thumbnail.
05:24So now I'm going to snip into it.
05:28OK.
05:30Click New.
05:31I'm going to snip it, right?
05:36There we go.
05:38Now I'm going to save it to my desktop.
05:42Because I saved everything to my desktop.
05:44So I can know where it goes.
05:47So I put thumb short for thumbnails.
05:49But being that I had a thumb from the other video, I'm going to put an S.
05:53So I don't get confused.
05:55OK.
05:56So that's my thumbnail.
05:57Right?
05:59OK.
06:00Now I saved it.
06:02Now I go to my desktop.
06:05And I'm going to get rid of this one.
06:09And put this one there.
06:11Because I made an arrow on the other one.
06:13That's why I had to do it over.
06:15So now I'm going to crop it to make it look neat.
06:21Neater.
06:22OK.
06:23I get it ready for the video that I'm making for Queen Elizabeth.
06:29This is my thumbnail.
06:32OK.
06:34And now I save it.
06:36I cropped it good.
06:38Now I save it.
06:45OK.
06:46Now I size it.
06:49Because now it needs to be resized.
06:55So now I want to resize it to 1280 by 720.
07:03Because that's what you two want for the thumbnail.
07:07So I go there and I put 720.
07:10And here it's giving me 1290 over 720.
07:14So that's good.
07:16So I save it.
07:19OK.
07:20I'm saving it.
07:21Save it.
07:23And that's it.
07:24And there's my thumbnail.
07:27So that's cool guys.
07:29So I hope you liked and enjoyed this video on how I create my thumbnails.
07:35Feel free to use it.
07:37And learn and use it.
07:40And thanks for watching.
07:42And take care.
07:43So long.
07:44So long.

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