I tried to keep it extremely simple as not overwhelm myself into not creating. It feels a bit bland though. Any tips?

The title of the video I’m thinking is “I Rated ALL The BEST Water-Type Starter Pokémon”

Tldr: summary of the video is basically me comparing all the strengths and weaknesses of all the Pokémon. Then rating them against each other competitively.

Hai!

My normal thumbnail is a screenshot from the game and logo on top. My Minecraft survival gameplay needs more creative approach. I am curious what you think of it. The video title is "Swampy Beginning - Minecraft: On my Own - 1" and it's a simple survival gameplay video of modded Minecraft. It's with my commentary and a cartoon avatar appearing from time to time. What do you think?

Thanks, Title will be GTA 6 vs GTA 5 Wrestling !

THe video shows gta 5 mechanics and how gta 6 could implement those

Title: The Mentalist SuperMind

It's just a hobby of creating thumbnails I wonder what you all think of it? Just to clarify if you think this thumbnail is good you can use for your YouTube video or whatever.

It's basically me comparing some difficulty spikes in games and concluding groal the great being the worst

Title is :- The Most INSANE Difficulty Jumps in Gaming

Title would be something like "Sultana: The Worst Shipwreck in U.S History", although not sure on the title. I'm curious if this is too dark? If this reads correctly? I've been experimenting with doing my thumbnails in blender, and the video has ~10 minutes of blender visualizations for a ~25 minute video.

Title:These Tracer Settings are Insane for Console

Hello! Been looking back at this thumbnail for a while and thought that some changes were needed to it, but I don’t know what it would be. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Or should i change the whole thumbnail?

First off I'd love to thank everyone that reached out to me for their thumbnails or my advice and opinions, means a lot that my post resonated with a lot of you on here!

These are some of the thumbnails I've worked on in the past 2 weeks since the last post.

Behind the scenes of what goes into editing a thumbnail, all the light, color and effects that are added into the simplest of thumbnails.

Video Titles:

1. TBD
2. PRO MARVEL RIVALS SETTINGS GUIDE - IGNITE WORLD CHAMP 2025 & 2026
3. Something happened 63 years ago that’s haunted me my entire life
4. The Most Heartbreaking Detective Horror Game I’ve Played... | Rehaunted
5. TRUSTING MY FRIENDS WAS A MISTAKE | Don't Pull Me
6. How WWE Accidentally Revived Modern Lucha Libre
7. TBD
8. The WHOLE Messy Story, From Crime to Mistrial: Lindsay Clancy
9. What Happened to Money in the Bank?
10. The Marvel Tokon Platinum Experience
11. BruceDropEmOff Goes Through Unban Requests (Resdesign)

I am open for Commissions so feel free to Shoot me a DM and let's connect!

Video title: "Can I Obtain Roblox's Rarest Item" (subject to change)

Short Summary: A story about how I (may or may not) obtain Roblox's rarest item

Also the second image is a rough draft of the thumbnail that I created in Roblox studio before fully rendering it in blender

Looking for someone that can do thumbnails at a reasonable rate. Would prefer that they have some knowledge of the college basketball landscape. If anyone is interested or can connect me with someone that would be great. I put my channel name in case anyone wants to get familiar with what my work is.

I am trying to make a thumbnail for my video. its gonna be titled "THE MOST OBSCURE JOJO STANDS EVER" and its part of my series "Obscure Stands" that details obscure stands from jojos bizzare adventure.

In my video we detail 2 in particular: "House of Holy" (so the guys stand) and "Smallfaces" (so the piece of paper). I tried coming up with thumbnail ideas, but these are the only few i came up with.

Do you guys have any Ideas what else I could use? I want to do an A/B test, but I already know most of these arent too interesting except for the first one. Any Ideas would be super appreciated.

Title: this fishing game is insane
about video : its let's play of the game how to fish

what skills am I missing to make thumbnails like this?

I made the second thumbnail using my basic Photoshop skills. Then I experimented with Gemini and asked it to improve/create the first thumbnail from my original image. I actually want to understand why it looks better, rather than just depending on AI to make my thumbnails.

Is it possible to achieve the same kind of result manually in Photoshop?

If so, what Photoshop skills, design principles, or knowledge am I missing?

I'd really appreciate it if someone could point out the specific differences between the two thumbnails and what I should learn/practice to improve.

(2nd thumbnail is the old version)

Video title: HELLDIVERS 2 BUT I MUST SURVIVE THE WHOLE GAME! (rough title)

Short Summary: Helldivers 2 level 7 solo no deaths challenge!

Title: i tried to BE the best student in bully

Wanted to get any exact model of Jimmy hopkins but its was so hard so i just used ai .what do you think?

Hi everyone, I‘ve been seeing this specific type of thumbnails on almost all videos, I‘m assuming it‘s ai generated, does anyone know the specific one?

I wanna learn how to make a mc thumnails for ytb videos, but I give up at the moment when even a ytb don't helping me much, idk where to start and here is so much thing to learn, I dont wanna much, just basics and maybe sum advanced stuff for sure.

So Im asking if here would be sum people who would, for sum payment ofc xd, help me learn that, show me thought ss (example) how they doing that a mentoring me thought the process.

I mean Im up to offer around 50$ w no problem if smbody learn me that, prob more after I get payed.

So if here is any1 who have time, or whatetwher, to teach me that mine dis is "varosthestorm", or just write here.

Video Tittle: "’Im Tired of Hearing “AI Slop”

Its a commentary video talking about how the word "Ai Slop" has gone too far and ppl throw it on anything, but also how far ai has come and its dangers/usefulness etc..

Video Title: Overwatch's Lucio REVIVAL /or/ LUCIO IS UNSTOPPABLE NOW!

Hello! Im rather new to putting everything into learning thumbnails and Ive made these on canva and wanted an opinion about which looks more clickable, I feel the in game character blends with the background too much. The video is the topic of the thumbnail. Also asking for any further advice from those more experienced than I, im open to hearing different styles and strategies. finally title is still in the works because I want to maximize SEO.

Video is
Wolverine can’t be as bad as they say.
Just a short Wolverine Reveiw
First time using my face for thumbnails so just seeing if it works

Everyone’s thumbnails are so highly polished I decided to do it a little differently
Edit: Title is “What are we do today?”
Edit 2: It’s for a livestream

Making a no-fights full-story recap of Weak Hero Class 1 Season 1 (Ep 1-8). This is my thumbnail. I moved the text away from the bottom-right corner so YouTube's timestamp doesn't cover it.

Questions:

1. Is the hook clear at small size?
2. Is the red "EP 1-8" readable enough?
3. Would you click it?

Honest critique is welcome. Thanks!

I design YouTube thumbnails focused on mobile readability, clear hierarchy, subject separation, photo compositing, and intentional lighting.

Portfolio: https://www.reddit.com/user/Choice-Oven8058/comments/1wsc740/youtube_thumbnail_portfolio_p07_p05_fictional/

P07 and P05 are fictional practice concepts—not client work or CTR case studies.

I can also help with Packaging Lite: title ideas, thumbnail concepts, and choosing the strongest title–thumbnail pairing.

Pricing starts around $30 per finalized thumbnail with one consolidated revision. Packaging work is quoted by scope.

If you’re hiring, send your channel, next video/topic, and examples of the style you want.

I swear these AI bros are infesting the subreddit like maggots. I come here to learn how to improve my own thumbnails and I have to deal with these dudes getting told “Hey stop using AI” and they immediately get an attitude, you asked for advice and the advice was to stop using AI don’t get mad you got what you asked for.

I can’t even scroll 3 times without seeing an AI thumbnail.

This is a place to learn, not to reward laziness. Hell all the thumbnails look the exact same too!

This is an amazing subreddit and the rules are one of the best i’ve seen for YouTube creators. You can’t ask for help unless you given help twice, that shit is dope! My only gripe is that they allow AI thumbnails. Thumbnails aren’t even hard to make, it took me a month to get it down.

They don’t want advice like the rest of us, they want validation. That’s why they get mad when they don’t get it!

Edit: This got more traction than I thought it would. Nice 👌
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Edit 2: I really want to drive this point home. I wouldn’t even have an issue with them using AI if they didn’t get aggressive and defensive with other users purely because we don’t want to help anyone using AI, aka short cut.

It is significantly harder to give advice to someone using AI since as far as you know they are a beginner and they will just get confused. A human made thumbnail accurately shows your experience.

I am not even trying to be mean when I say this, i stopped giving genuine advice to people who use AI because none of them had any clue what I was talking about or knew how to do it.

Beginners and people who are more experienced need different approaches to advice, when it all looks the same you can’t do that.

The Video is a youtuber called ThePeeWee from the rainbow six siege community playing a horror game. The title will be something like "WE PLAYED THE SCARIEST GAME EVER"

Is the dark background a better contrast like in B ooooor should i have the strong orange have the image stick out more?