Boost COLORS and BRIGHTNESS in your THUMBNAILS - Canva Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Want to make UA-cam thumbnails that grab attention and get more clicks? In this video, I’ll show you how to isolate your face, brighten it, and adjust colors using Canva to create eye-catching thumbnails that stand out!
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Ah, you enchanted me again! I woke up this morning, thinking about how I could improve my thumbnail skills and, as if you read my mind, you had this wonderful video. Which is extremely helpful. ❤
You're going to think I'm reading your mind lol! I'm glad you found it helpful :-)
Love this! I use Canva all the time for our thumbnails and thought I knew what I was doing but you taught me quite a bit. Thank you! -- Christy
My pleasure, Christy! Glad it was helpful! :-)
I love Canva but I learned a several tricks watching this. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
So glad I found your channel. I've used Canvas for intros and outros, but not thumbnails. I'll have to play around with this. Cheers!
Have fun with it!
I knew most of that already but layering and editing your face is new to me. Thank you!
You're welcome! :-)
Thanks Rob! That was really helpful. I have my first video ready to go, and I was just getting ready to work on the thumbnail. Perfect timing 😊
Awesome!! Happy the timing worked out :-)
Canva is one of my mainstays for sure :-)
Thanks so much!! I just started putting text in my thumbnails this week in Canva and your video shows more even more ways to perfect a thumbnail. This is a great video Rob!!!!
Awesome! So glad you found it helpful :-)
Really good introduction to Canva! I've had it on my list for a while, and now you've inspired me to take the plunge. Nice video!
Good luck with it!
Rob this is an awesome tutorial. After seeing what Canva can do, I made the decision to purchase the full version. I find it very user friendly. I appreciate you showing everyone how you use it step by step!
That's great! It's been one of my most used programs for the last 5+ years... I use it everyday and would be lost without it :-)
This was helpful! Thank you!
My pleasure! Happy to help :-)
So helpful!
Awesomely simple way to make eye carching thumbnails fast! Thanks Rob! 🎉
My pleasure!
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Great info and help!
I am taking your advice and starting my YT channel very soon. Awaiting a few items I will be ordering very soon.
I want to thank you for your mentorship!
That's awesome! Good luck with your channel! :-)
Thank you so much. I used your suggestions on my first uploaded UA-cam video, Thumbnail. As always, you were extremely helpful.
Awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful :-)
After your last 'Canva' video I tried it out and it's so much easier than photoshop 🌝👍
I think so too! But I must admit, I gave up on Photoshop many years ago and haven't tried it since. I just love Canva :)
Thanks. This is so helpful!
❤😊thank you
I really enjoy Canva! I use it for work and now starting to use for personal stuff
Another great guide and video! Thank you, Rob.
My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful :-)
So helpful 🙏🙏🙏🙏💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Glad it was helpful! :-)
Just what I needed, thanks so much for sharing this. ❤
My pleasure! Glad it helped :-)
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This is good. I’m in a rut with thumbnails. I like them, but they are basic and a bit clunky.
It's one of those things you just have to play around with for a while until you find a style you like. Also, just searching through UA-cam to study thumbnails you like is a great way to get inspiration :)
Hot tip, I never worked with an underneath image, that helps a lot. Thanks, Rob!
Do you have a video on how to show our selves in the little window? I thought that it could be a great way to introverts to start little-by-little showing their face.
Yes I do! I made this early last year showing how I do it in Camtasia. If you're using another editing program the concepts should all be the same :)
ua-cam.com/video/tR6yCCtrF88/v-deo.html
Good Morning Rob! I always enjoy it when I get up and there is a video uploaded by you that I can enjoy while making my breakfast. Thank you! Edited to add: I noticed while watching you on your other channel, you were wearing this outfit and the hat matched the sky and your sweatshirt matched the ocean. Lined up perfectly. :) The background was beautiful! It's been so cold here in Maine I was surprised to see you out there without a proper jacket.
Aw thank you for the kind words :-) In hindsight that might've been a better thumbnail to showcase adding saturation to the blues! I'm about to head outside again to shoot another video because it's snowing now and beautiful outside... a little cold, but I think it'll look great... and show that we do get snow here in Nova Scotia too lol! Only a sweatshirt true, but with 2 layers of shirts underneath ;-)
@@RobtheMaritimer I woke up to a blanket of fresh snow. I saw on the weather last night that Nova Scotia would be getting some as well, so of course I thought of you.
I need to sign up for Creator's Cove. I have a big problem with procrastinating. I have great equipment but am stuck with feeling over-whelmed. I feel like I have to know everything before I can start. I'm the type that if I can't have 6 hours to get into a zone and do something where I can shut everything else out, forget it. The time I spend on UA-cam or other things I could use to actually have hands on learning but again, I don't feel like 15 minutes here and there is worth it. I have trouble switching gears. My problem is I'm multi-passionate. There really isn't enough time to do all the things I love, even when I narrow it down to just a handful. When I'm doing something creative that I love, I'm in the zone where I won't eat, forget to use the bathroom, haha...and I enjoy that space/ zone and wish I could be there more often. I need to change my mind about this. I need to stop thinking that everything needs to be perfect in order for me to take the time to do what I call "fun". I suppose it's linked to guilt? I know you have pretty much talked about this in your content. Have fun out in the snow! Take care!
@@kstari "Feeling like you have to know everything before you start..." Well, that was me a few years ago, exactly! I know it sounds cliche, but if I were to start all over again the one thing I wish I did differently is to start WAY before I actually did :) Even if the videos are bad, just start. You have to start somewhere :) And it's impossible to learn everything before starting... many of the things you'll learn cannot be learned by watching videos, but must be learned by doing, failing, doing again, etc. And I think a lot of creators would say the same thing... they just wished they started sooner! I realize now that I do NOT need most of the equipment I accumulated over the years. My phone, a tripod, a mic, and my Macbook (and an internet connection) is literally all that is needed to do this :) I hear what you're saying though, I totally get it... I remember just last year thinking that if I didn't have a full 8 hours with nothing else to do and with no one around, I didn't have time to make a video... and so it just never happened. Today though, I make time and can do it much more quickly. In fact, I just got back from recording a video outside... the one I told you I was going to do above :) (I could have it ready in an hour or so but it'll be tomorrow or Friday morning before I post it). So you just have to do it :) You'll be SO HAPPY when you look back and know that you started once you finally do... and you too will wish you had started sooner ;) There's no time like right now... snow makes for a pretty backdrop too!! Good luck with it 🙂
thank you so much for doing this, really appreciate it.
My pleasure!
Excellent tutorial Rob, thanks for sharing. I never knew about that Color Edit feature! I'm definitely going to be using that. Looks like we have a pretty similar workflow :D
Love your videos too Ty! Keep doing what you're doing! Cheers :-)
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It is thumbnails that I struggle the most with so thanks 👍 Rob for this helpful & informative video to help us with creating thumbnails. Creating thumbnails I want to improve on because I prefer developing my own skills rather than paying for someone else to do it. Love 🥰 the video and love ❤️ Rob.
Thank you, so glad it helped :-)
This was a very helpful video. I enjoy Canva and go back and forth between the PRO vs Free versions. Thanks for your great channel. PS! I have that same sweater and was wearing it today. What a coincidence!
I love Canva! And I love this sweater lol!! Cheers :-)
Wow very useful information.. Thank you❤
You're welcome :-)
My channel is related to story telling such as fairy tales,moral stories erc for all ages.. I think i can use this tips😊
Simple & helpful, thanks!
You're welcome! Happy to help! 😊
This gives me ideas. Thank you Rob!
You're welcome! Hope it helps! 😊
This is incredibly helpful - thank you!!
You're welcome! Happy to help. 🙂
That was very helpful. Thank you.
My pleasure!
My computering skills is poor and am thinking about going to do six weeks course sir and thanks for these great tips
Good luck with it :-)
Great job Rob!!!❤
Thanks! Glad you liked it 🙂
So very helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome! Happy to help :-)
Good information! I make my thumbnails on my phone
I've never tried to do that but I know you can... Canva has a mobile phone app too. I just find it very hard to work on such a small screen... but if that words for you, that's awesome :-)
Thanks. I just signed up for a free version of Canva, and your tips will be very helpful.
Good luck and enjoy!
Very helpful. I love using Canva.
I'd be lost without it ;)
Free version or paid vsrsion?
@ I use the paid version.
@teatalktv I use the paid version too. The paid version is needed if you want to use the Background Remover tool. Otherwise, the free version might be all you need :)
@ I agree. I think there are other features with the paid version besides BG removed but I’ve had the paid version for a long time and couldn’t tell you what else you get. Love Canva, though.
Hope u can upload more about that Canva
Thanks Rob! 😀 I think I've got this. Will work some tomorrow in Canva . Does everything you did come with their free version?
Answered the question, already covered in another question. Didn't scroll far enough down 1st time. Paid version has background remover. Gotcha‼️
Exactly :) Have fun with it!
great!
Real nice but is withe pro in order to remove the background
Yes, you need the Pro version to remove backgrounds.
Great tutorial Rob. Just curious, what's the monthly cost for the paid version of Canva?
For me here in Canada it's $150 CAD per year... I think in the US it's $12.99/mo or $120/year US.
@ 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks!!!
2 questions. You hit remover background but the background didn't go away. Also, why do you make so many copies? Thnx
I probably could've shown that better. I removed the background on the top copy only, not the bottom copy. That's why you need two copies... one that doesn't have the background (so effects applied to that one only affects myself) and one that does have the background (so effects applied to that apply to everything in the bottom copy, including the background. Does that make sense?
Thank you. Your tutorials are always enlightening and refreshing. Permit me to piggyback on the above question. On the top box where you removed the background, you copied the image and superimposed the removed background image on the original image? I just got a little confused there 😊
What editing program do you recommend for YT videos?
I use Camtasia and find it easy to learn for beginners
Great video! How do you put a different background?
Use the "Remove Background" tool to remove your existing background, then bring another image (new background) into Canva... either an image of your own or search for one in the Canva catalog. Then move the new background "to the back" using the position tool.
@@RobtheMaritimer Thank you!
Always great information. Question regarding Camtasia: Can I use it for tutorials using 2 monitors and also toggle between full screen and myself? and blur some info if needed. Thanks in advance.
Are you referring to toggling back and forth live? I don't think you can... that's not the way I do it anyways. I always record my camera and monitor separately and don't even use the Camtasia recorder anymore... I just use Camtasia to put everything together :-) there's more than one way to do it though... I just find my way the simplest for me :)
@@RobtheMaritimerThanks Rob. I meant to say that if I am recording my screen and my myself (small box). Can I bring mysefl to full screen? Thanks
@@MeadowOutdoors Yes, but you would do that in the editing process, not when you are recording. Just like this video I did here... I recorded myself on camera (to the camera's SD card) and my monitor I recorded using OBS. I then brought both those videos into a new project in Camtasia and edited them together. As you can see there were times that I animated myself from full screen down to a rectangle on the screen.... and moved myself around periodically... all that was done in editing afterwards. I hope that helps :)
@@RobtheMaritimer Thank you very much for your help
Are you using free Canva or paid version?
I use the paid version… the Background Remover tool is only available with the paid version.
Under apps on Canva there is a free background eraser but it is dependent on how clean the photo is to remove decently.
I use thumbnail polish.
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.
Haha
I had that app but I'm afraid using,I create only one... Now I never use.. .like pro? I'm thinking of payment..
The Pro version allows you to use the Background Remover tool… that’s what I use a lot :)
@RobtheMaritimer okay I will try,and follow your video hope I can get it.. any way I'm so happy now coz I uploaded new vdio then I found it thumbnail then I click then I edit again.. Soo happy unexpected I learned something new... Thank u Lord.. Thanks also Sir 👍
There is a free version. I"m using the free version right now and still able to create cool thumbnails with text.
I had PC.here I really wanted to use
Great tutorial. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super helpful! Thank you so much for sharing.
Happy to help!
Very helpful indeed!!