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All right.

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So I'm going to run you through a quick four step process that's going to allow you to create professional

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looking thumbnail images over and over again very, very quickly and very, very easily using simply

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Photoshop and Lightroom and enough, you know, a Web site here or there.

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OK.

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So step one is to come up with a main image for your thumbnail that is relevant to your topic or nature.

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So this could be from a stock photo Web site, like pixels, for example, or, you know, PIC's eBay,

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for example.

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And there are many others out there if you just Google stock photo sites.

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The key here is you want to get a main image if you're taking an image from the Internet.

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Right.

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You want to get a main image that is not a copyrighted image or one that you know the origins of.

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Right.

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The safest way to do that is to simply go to a stock photo site.

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Like I said, examples of those are pixels, pics, eBay, and there's a number of others.

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And this could also simply if you want to take your own picture, it could simply be a high quality

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picture that you took yourself with your camera or your phone.

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The key element here is that you want to get a main background image for your thumbnail so that people

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that see it immediately, no matter what theme you're going with, will obviously know the topic almost

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instantaneously.

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And you can also use a picture of yourself if you're creating your videos or courses around, like a

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personal brand, for example.

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But I would recommend using an image with a topic that's just my opinion.

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But it's a recommendation also because one of the things that I'm going to teach you in a coming lecture

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is to overlay a picture of yourself on the thumbnail anyway.

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Right.

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So ideally, it's not going to matter.

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Now, ideally, with the thumbnail size and thumbnail image, you're gonna want a 19, 20 by 10, 80

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pixel ratio or as close to that as possible so that it resize as easily and looks great.

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OK.

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Now, generally speaking, like you can see when you're on one of these sites here, you can see like

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up and down photos while a 20 or 19, 20 excuse me, by 10 ADP one looks more horizontal like this.

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Right.

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Almost like a YouTube thumbnail.

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Now, this one is probably not 19 by 10, 80.

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But if we just simply free download this one for free, you will see.

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Right.

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So it's 19, 20 by 12 A.D..

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It also comes a little bit other sizes.

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But basically, I can take this because it's as close to 19, 20 by 10 a.D.A as possible.

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And then I can simply resize it using step two.