Often time's a viewer's opinion matters on the same level, if not higher, of the content creators. I agree with your thoughts! Clear concise thumbnails that help portray the theme of an analytical video is what I usually click through for those types of videos-- look at Game Theory for example ^_^. And having screenshots that show the direction of fun videos helps portray the vibe of the video! Thank you for posting your thoughts! :D
These are great insights! I used to use photoshop but have since moved to Gimp for editing! It was a big adjustment but Gimp seems to do everything I need. Do you personally prefer thumbnails that use Minecraft avatars in them (modeled on Nova Skin)? Or may I be misreading your comment a little?
Anyway, your comments are definitely super helpful! Thank you so much ^_^
Those are very valuable thoughts! I see people using their avatar frequently (and very nicely) like Tecthor. I'm not sure I would personally do that but Clean text is definitely a must. Would you say it's better to have the text mirror the title or compliment it?
As a note, I have since changed my thumbnail and want this discussion to be about personal opinions on the general thumbnail, not mine (unless you feel like that's necessary or helpful ^-^)
I made some changes-- I wanted to keep the general style similar but take in mind most of the things you suggested. Thank you again so much for your input! It really helped out a lot :D
ππThank you so much for these tips! When I get the chance later today (or tomorrow morning), I'm going to head back into Gimp and play around with this video's thumbnail. I'll go and give it another shot with some tweaks guided by your notes. Thank you so much for your critique! (oγβ½γ)oβ (<-- this star is an emerald for your comment ^_^)
These are such fabulous tips! Thank you so much. For once, I'm actually super excited to explore a Ravine o(^β½^)o. I seriously can't thank you enough for your helpful comments here π
If you would have made a different thumbnail, what would you have done? Many people have been critiquing this compared to my other ones. (just curious, I don't want to give the wrong impression)