Want to change the thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts? This step-by-step guide shows you how to do it easily using just your phone! Maybe you're used to TikTok and want to move over to YouTube Shorts. Learn where the hidden options are in the main YouTube app and how to select the perfect frame and add text or filters to make your Shorts stand out.
What You'll Learn:
How to access and edit YouTube Shorts thumbnails
Tips for selecting the best frame for your video
Adding filters or text to enhance your thumbnail
How to add YOUTUBE SHORTS THUMBNAIL to your video...
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How do you change the thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts videos?
It's really easy but the options are really hidden so I can walk you through this step-by-step and you only need your phone to do this.
As you know YouTube Shorts looks so much better when they have a thumbnail that shows what's actually in the video.
First we'll go into the main YouTube app, NOT YouTube Studio, and then we can press on the "You" icon, that's your face or avatar, in the bottom right hand corner.
That brings up this page.
Scroll down to "Your Videos", And click on that and then we can scroll down to the YouTube Short where you want to change the thumbnail.
Find the three dots to the right hand side of the video listing here. This brings up a menu.
One of the options is "Edit".
If we click on edit this brings up a menu. "Edit Video".
On the thumbnail at the top here there's a pencil icon and if we click on the pencil icon it opens the video.
There's a frame at the bottom of the screen and we can scroll through our video to find a frame that can work well for a thumbnail for this YouTube Short.
This video is about delicious croissants so I don't need a thumbnail showing "me". I want a Thumbnail that shows the delicious croissants. We've got to be patient with this because it is really difficult to get the exact frame to land on the exact moment that's best for the thumbnail, but when we have found one we can also add a filter or some text by pressing on the letters icon and then typing in a banner And press "Done".
We can stretch and move the text to wherever we want it. Just click on the tick in the top right hand corner when you're done. You now have a new thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts video. Congratulations! If this is working for you, let me know in the comments down below and thank you for clicking the thumbs up or the subscribe button.
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