Does anyone have tips for a good thumbnails, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make my thumbnails better. I only have one recent thumbnail that im working on. Its the same picture with some tweaking but i need suggestions how to make my YouTube channel, And i trust my fellow simmers for advice
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I would keep the close up shot and either put it on a different background or blur the background that you currently have it on. Then add text, etc.
Here are a few that I've used. I try to keep them pretty simple, but interesting.
For my Sims 3 LP, I'm using a screenshot of the current world that I'm playing in as I move each new generation to a new world.
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I am just starting a let’s play soon myself I got a question can anyone give a list of things to avoid when making a thumbnail ??
Generally I think less text is better, and "small print" is no point as most viewers will see the image quite tiny. Contrasting colors or good fonts might be important to drag the viewer to your image, remember yours is just one among "millions". So, try to come up with something new and bright.
You will need photo editing software, like Photoshop. I'm using a very old version, no super pro features needed. Such software might also be useful for graphics/effects/credits etc.
Re posing, I never use sims posing in my films, I think the normal gsameplay looks more natural, so I can't help you with that for thumbs, but in general it's easy to take a PrintScreen from your gameplay and paste it into a new file for editing in the mentioned software.
I think I do both, depending. And I don't think you could tell a difference from the quality, the loss of pixels is not that big, an the thumb on YT is very tiny anyway. Even if you want a still picture too cover the entire screen, say as an opening scene in your vid, the quality will be good enough from a normal screen dump, as long as your all over settings and vid card etc is decent.