Uncover Ali Abdaal's Secrets to Professional Thumbnails! - Photoshop & Canva

Learn how to make 2 different YouTube thumbnails just like @aliabdaal in both photoshop and canva (the free version).

I'll start by breaking down the secret techniques he uses to create professional looking thumbnails that get hundreds of thousands of views, before actually showing you how I create 2 thumbnails just like him.

That includes: setting up a cool backdrop, taking professional looking photos and then all the little tricks you can do in photoshop to bring the thumbnail to life.

I then wanted to see if you could create the same quality thumbnails in canva?! And I was pleasantly surprised!

Enjoy the video!

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[loriendean]

I love this series 🤘🏾 you break these down into digestible pieces. Makes it fun to learn and easy to implement

[UdahJompo]

I love it, I learn much from this. Keep it up!

[shenanigans]

Thanks so much for the tutorial! I’m learning graphic design, so this is helpful 😊

[Storifiedyt]

Exactly the kind of videos we wanna watch. Keep em coming. 🙌

[Rowafaedits]

please can you make video on how you edit your videos? please please please

[VerseBlast]

Literally perfect recreation and explanation, thank you.

[raphaëlbouillé]

This is truly amazing ! Thanks a lot !

[hx]

PLEASE make more breakdown of YouTuber's thumbnail and show us how to recreate them in Photoshop! I learned a lot in this video and stayed till the end. I don't care whose thumbnail you recreate, this series is just too good, I will watch it anyway

[NicoForaFinance]

You're making super good and helpful content! Keep going!!

[karanranaofficial]

Thanks a ton buddy!
This (and the other Ali video) really helped me.
- Fellow productivity creator from India.
Cheers

(And yes, you might wanna break down Colin & Samir...they are great with their thumbs & shoots)

[southkoreaupdatestv]

Thank you so much for such a great video. ^^

[nadiahraed]

Very useful, if you could do another thumbnail, would be very beneficial 😍👌🏻👏🏻

[amazon]

Amazing video, I learned a lot from it. Thanks a lot, bro!😊

[varunpenumudi]

Hey thats a really great video, but at 10:10 in canva if you want to change color of that icon/image an alternative way would be using duotone filter in effects section(it works really well for me)

[no_cap_smx]

Great video
I think your background is little bit sharper on the other hand Ali BG is little bit blurred for the 1st thumbnail

[boris_sokolov_]

Hello, man!
Thank you for your job. All information is useful and helpful.

[alirajput]

You’re the man! Can you do Captain Sinbad?

[amazon]

Could you please do more Thumbnails videos? Because Thumbnails are very important on YouTube!! Thanks for your video and the time you've put in

[BCS-Audio-Book]

You deserve a lot more subscribers! 🎉❤