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So step three is to now upload your new version of that background image into Photoshop.

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You now have an eye popping image that will grab attention.

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It's formatted for most platforms and now it's time to start adding layers to it.

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Now, the first layer that I like to add to this image myself is literally of myself.

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And that's because obviously my consent personally revolves around the personal brand.

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If yours does as well, then feel free to use this technique.

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You can also add a logo or you can simply just add text and another picture if you want to go that route.

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So what you need is a few random pictures of yourself already before doing this so that you can then

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either add them or snip them out.

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I'll show you both of those examples.

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So what you can basically do it's really simple, is just set your phone or your camera up in video

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mode, then record yourself and make a bunch of gestures or standing poses and then take snippets or

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screenshots of that still frame in the video by simply pausing it on then gesture and taking a screenshot

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or a photo of that.

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And then you'll use that screenshot here on your actual thumbnail and you'll pull yourself out of the

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screenshot.

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Like, I'm going to show you to basically personalize your thumbnail image so nobody else can use it.

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Right.

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It's a really good way and a good, good technique that you see a lot of personal brands doing.

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Although, like I said, if you don't have a personal brand, then you can, you know, adjust this

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and you don't have to use this step.

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Now, an example of how this will look right here is you can see with this picture, I've already cut

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myself out.

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So if I just grab this is a PMG right here and this is what I will show you how to do in a second.

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I can literally just drag myself onto the actual picture.

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And there I am overlaid on the thumbnail.

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Now you can what I recommend that you do in most cases and obviously I didn't do it here so that I could

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show you, is you want a bunch of these ahead of time already and PMG mode so you don't have to do this

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next step.

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You know, every single time and cut yourself out every single time.

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You want to go through ahead of time, cut yourself out ahead of time.

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And that way you can simply drag them on because this is, you know, how to make a professional thumbnail,

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you know, quickly, right.

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In four easy steps.

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So, you know, if you do it once, well, then every other thumbnail that you do using that in the

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future will be a lot shorter.

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But if you don't need to know how to do that, basically what you want to do is you can see the examples

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of the still frames that I've taken here.

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So we'll use one that doesn't that is an Panji mode that we need to take myself and remove myself from

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the back.

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So let's use this one right here, this example right here.

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Now, if you need to maximize the image, you can hold all and scroll up on your mouse if you need to,

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you know, on maximize the image, then hold on and scroll down on your mouse as well.

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Now I'm going to scroll down and scroll up a little bit.

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And what I want to do is I want to take myself out of the background of this photo so I can overlay

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myself onto that actual image for our main thumbnail so I can add it as a personal brand thing.

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So we want to use the Quix left tool, which is right here.

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I'm going to click the quick select tool and you're gonna want to make sure that the plus is selected.

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The minus will take stuff out.

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The plus will actually select stuff what you want to grab.

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So I'm literally just gonna quit selected.

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I'm going to hold down and drag it.

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And you can see it starts to automatically go around the image that we want selected.

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Now, it's not always perfect.

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You can see right here, it's left too much.

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And we'll go back and take that out here in a second.

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But basically, you're just gonna drag everything around.

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That's pretty close to what we want.

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So my ear is missing a little bit here.

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There's an extra part right here that I don't need.

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And obviously, we need to take this out, but everything else automatically selected pretty well.

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Now, if you need to actually really, really do this, you can select the pental.

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And just like, draw a pen around yourself and then select it.

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But that takes so, so long.

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So the quick select tool is a game changer.

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So now that we selected ourself and we need to add a little bit more right here on the ear, we're just

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gonna drag this down a little bit.

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Now looks pretty good to me.

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We want to, you know, hit the minus because I don't need this little thing right here.

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So I'm going to hit I'm going to click down and drag over it and boom.

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We want to just kind of click down and boom.

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It pretty much grabbed it.

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It's gonna take you maybe like a minute or two to get used to how to do this.

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You want to click and kind of drag around that or you can simply just like, click once, click one,

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click once and slowly start taking pieces out.

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And then obviously, if you take too much out, you can just go back and hit the plus and reselect more.

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And it's going to select the subject right here.

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And then you want to go over to this image right here, the movie tool, and that's going to actually

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So now it's in PMG.

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You can see if you drag it around, it literally took you out of the background.

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But what we want to do is you want to drag this entire layer over like it was like a Web page file.

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And then I'm gonna drag myself over on top of the thumbnail image, OK?

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Now you're gonna X out of this one right here and you're simply going to increase, you know, and drag

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yourself wherever you want in the thumbnail image.

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But that's pretty much how you do that.

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Now, assuming that you've done this right and you've dressed you drag yourself over the background

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and place yourself where you want right now, you want to adjust the size and the portion accordingly.

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Pretty self-explanatory.

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I also recommend personally adding like a shadow effect and a background effect to this as well.

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Now, some people also add a light halo effect around their picture.

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You'll see that a lot on YouTube thumbnails.

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I've kind of moved away from that because I think it looks a little cartoonish.

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I don't necessarily recommend that you do that.

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So to do that, you want to.

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Click on the layer over here on the actual time line right here and you're gonna go to blending options.

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Now, if you do want the outer glow, you can click outer glow right here and then you can simply drag

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the the like the feel of it.

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How wide is open?

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If you want to add that, you can also adjust the color if you want to do that as well.

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Like I said, I don't ever really do that.

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And if you click outer glow off, then it'll basically go off, right?

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All I really do and it's going to be tough to kind of see it with this image because it's a little bit

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of a darker image.

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But you can see a lot better on a lot of images.

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And it's really going to bring me to the forefront here.

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In second is the drop shadow, right?

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See how kind of s adds the shadow right there on the back.

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Now, if I unelect that, you're going to see that shadow disappear.

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And that's going to add the shadow.

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It's subtle and obviously same thing here.

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You can adjust adjust the size of the shadow if you want to, or move it around, you know, as you

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And then you're going hit.

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Now you'll see that that really kind of brings me to the forefront of this and you'll see the shadow

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behind and it really kind of separates the layers a little bit better.

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I really like the way that that looks.

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Some of the drag myself right here.

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I'll make myself a little bit bigger.

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And we'll keep it like that.

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Now, obviously, this is gonna be an example of thumbnail picture, you know, for let's hypothetically

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say it's like a travel photography course.

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So what I need to do is I need to obviously add text to that to identify that it's travel photography

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or if it was a travel photography thumbnail for a video that I was doing for, say, you know, on YouTube,

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for example.

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But now my personal brand image is in there.

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And now I want to move on to adding text.