Not necessarily about videos, but what do y'all use to make thumbnails?

[Stanley Yoang]

I've been using Pixlr to make some thumbnails for my videos, and I've also started looking into Gimp. Are there any other cheap suggestions?

 

[oscarflowers]

i use paint and online-image-editor, but my thumbnails are extremely minimal - no filters or cropping.

 

[Dino]

Photoshop is my favorite for graphics design. If you're a student, it's $20 a month for all the Adobe Programs including Photoshop, Illustrators, Premiere, and After Effects.

 

[Sladee]

Some people will make thumbnails for you for like $1 a thumbnail. So if you only upload like once a week its about $4 a month, that's mad affordable. But if you'd rather do it yourself Photopea is a photoshop like program that works in your browser. GL!

 

[The NotARubicon!]

I use Photoshop, but sometimes I just use Preview (the Mac equivalent of MS Paint) ..Sometimes, I use nothing at all and just use a screen-shot.

 

[Julia and Claire]

We use picmonkey.com and pixlr which works great. We use pixlr to make text on our thumnails, and for the rest, we use picmonkey.

Julia and Claire

 

[TN7]

Sometimes I use GIMP to create easy gradients and adding text, but I don't really put much effort into them because I focus on the actual picture.

 

[Idec Sdawkminn]

I use the Thumbnail Generator that comes with the TubeBuddy plugin. It is free and provides exactly what I need.

 

[DanAwesomeStuff]

Picmonkey. Super easy to use and also FREE!

 

[AngelineCommander]

I use MikuMikudance and Paint if it's one of the "Plushies" videos.