Скачать или смотреть Creating YouTube Thumbnails: Hands-On Practice for Beginners (2025 Tutorial)

In this hands-on lesson, you’ll practice designing real YouTube thumbnails step-by-step using Canva. This session focuses on applying everything you’ve learned — choosing templates, customizing layouts, removing backgrounds, adding text, and creating a visually strong thumbnail that boosts your click-through-rate (CTR).

Here’s what you’ll practice in this video:

• Selecting the right thumbnail style for your niche
• Adding your photo and removing the background
• Adjusting colors, shadows, and outlines for a professional look
• Adding bold, readable text for maximum visibility
• Using contrast to highlight the main subject
• Restructuring layouts to match your video’s message
• Adding elements, shapes, and icons to increase visual appeal
• Practicing different thumbnail compositions
• Exporting your thumbnail in the best resolution
• Evaluating whether a thumbnail is “click-worthy”

By the end of this practice session, you’ll confidently create thumbnails that look professional, branded, and ready to upload to your YouTube channel.