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All right, so I'm going to run you through a quick four step process that's going to allow you to create

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professional looking thumbnail images over and over again very, very quickly and very, very easily

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using simply Photoshop and Lightroom and a website here.

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There.

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OK, so step one is to come up with a main image for your thumbnail that is relevant to your topic or

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nature.

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OK, so this could be from a stock photo website, like pixels, for example, or PIC's eBay, 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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OK, the key element here is that you want to get a main background image for your thumbnail so that

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

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almost instantaneously.

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

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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, OK?

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

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80 pixel ratio or as close to that as possible so that it resize is easily and looks great, 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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the up and down photos while 1880 or nineteen twenty excuse me, by 10 ap one looks more horizontal

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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, 20 by 10.

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

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Right.

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So it's 19, 20 by 12, 18.

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It also comes a little bit other sizes.

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But basically, I can take this because it says close to 19, 20 by 10 as possible.

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And then I can simply resize it using step two.