Waching daily Dec 26 2017

Here's one simple trick I stumbled across using three free, easily

accessible tools, to create highly effective video thumbnail images. This

video is called: "How To Improve Your Video Thumbnail Images - One Simple Trick".

It's all about making your thumbnail images stand out, look professional and

be attractive. This process may well save you a lot of time you currently take to

produce a thumbnail image as well as making your thumbnail images more

attractive to viewers. In the meantime, be sure to watch the video to the very end

where you'll be able to get details of how to download your free PDF copy

entitled the: "Top 10 Tips For Beginners To YouTube Ads. Hi, my name is Jeff

Laming of Video Cashflow and in this video we're going to look at one neat trick

on how to produce a stunning video thumbnail image that stands out, looks

professional, and can be very attractive to viewers. So let's head over to the

computer and get started. And whilst I'm making my way over there

be sure to read the message about to come across your screen right now.....

Welcome to the computer. There's three parts to this process. The first thing you

want to do is go to canva.com and open up Canva. I'm not going to go through the

initial steps of canva. I'm working on the basis that you are familiar with Canva

and we'll go straight to the background page. Now, I'm using a white background

because that's what I predominately use for my thumbnail images, and then I use

my colors for my own business which is navy blue and red. There's my logo down

there, and over here on the right I'm going to put in an image, and this now

leads us to the second part of the process, and this involves a bit of

software called Clipping Magic. You can find it at www.clippingmagic.com. Details will be put in the Description box below the video.

And what you want to do is go in and pick out an image that you want to put on your Canva screen. We'll

just click here and go through and pick up an image. And I picked up this image

that I used on a previous thumbnail because I want it to improve on this grey area

here. So what this little piece of software does.....you see here at the green

plus sign....well this tells you that if you just mark the area that you want to

keep - so in this case we'll keep my face, neck and shoulders - so that will do that -

and then the bit that you want to remove i.e. all the surrounding area, if you click

on the negative or minus button here, and then if you just start clicking here you can

see the outline going around the main structure, in this case my face. It looks

okay down that side - down this side it just probably need to make sure that the red

spot here doesn't go onto the main body and something's not quite right there so

we need to push that bit of outline out so click back on the green button -

this will clear away - and here we just want to just

edge that back so it's got the whole outline. So that is the outline that

we're going to go with. And then what we want to do next is come down here to the

background color. Now, we've got a choice here of various colors and you can choose

and we've got a green if you want a green color, a blue color there, a sort of

a beigey color, black if you want black, but because I said my logo is

predominantly white - we're just going to go with white - and that's the image there. Now

this particular software here - it's got a pricing structure - but for the purposes

of what we're going to use, we're now going to use the third piece of software

in this process, and this third tool is the Windows Snipping Tool. I don't know if you

can see this here properly, but this is....if you go to and key in "snipping tool" on

your Google search box and you'll come up with this. And basically this is what

it looks like once you download it. And if I just

expand on this....I can, but basically what happens is it allows you to just click

on here. And it will enable you to just outline the area that you want to snip

and....voila! And it enables you to save it as a PNG [file/document]. So what we're going to do now

is just go back to the Clipping Magic screen and I've got this tool at the

bottom here - you can't see this much - I'm just going to click on it. You can start seeing it

by going up in the corner here and I will just make sure - you don't want to get the

borders in - now I'm going to save that into my computer. So I've saved that

onto my hard disk and now we're going to go back into Canva and we're going to

upload that image. So there's the image here that I've uploaded and I'm just

going to drag....just click on it and put it over there.....and just drag it down

here.....and voila! There you are, as you can see

that blends in really nicely with the rest of the image. Obviously, I can move this

about and tidy it up a bit but obviously it gives you an idea

now of how you can improve your thumbnail images. You can do this with

existing thumbnail images as well. If you've got images that you think the

background could be improved upon. So hope you've found that simple three-stage

process useful and let's now carry on with the rest of the video. Before I

forget, here's the link for you to download your free PDF copy of the: "Top

10 Tips For Beginners To YouTube Ads". You'll will find the URL link in the

description box below this video. Thanks for watching. Look out for another video

on video marketing and YouTube coming your way next week.

Until next time......bye for now.