How To Change Thumbnail On Youtube Playlist

Are you frustrated past the depression-quality thumbnail options YouTube auto-generated for yous?

Are you looking to change(or set) custom thumbnails for your YouTube videos?

In this article, we give yous piece of cake step-by-step instructions on:

one. How to alter a thumbnail on YouTube for a video that's already been published.

2. How to add a custom thumbnail while you're publishing a video to YouTube.

How to Alter a Thumbnail on YouTube For a Published Video

Your YouTube business relationship doesn't come with the ability to upload custom thumbnails past default. In order for your business relationship to gain this ability, yous demand to first enable the custom thumbnail option.

One time enabled, the procedure of setting a custom thumbnail for a published video is straightforward and involves just a few clicks.

i. Log in to YouTube.

2. Click on your contour icon in the top correct corner and select YouTube Studio(beta)' from the dropdown menu.

YouTube studio beta

three. Click on the 'Videos' tab on the left side of the page and then click on the title or thumbnail of the video for which you lot want to alter the thumbnail.

YouTube studio videos tab

4. In the next screen that appears, under the 'Basic' tab, you'd see a department named 'Thumbnail'. Under this department, you'd see iii auto-generated thumbnail options and a push on the far left that says 'Custom thumbnail'. Click on this button to upload your custom image.

v. Now select the file you'd want to set as a thumbnail and click 'Open'. Brand sure that it adheres to all the technical recommendations. In the example beneath, the selected paradigm has been optimized for the best YouTube thumbnail size, is under 2 MB, is in PNG format and follows the 16:ix aspect ratio.

6. Finally, click on the 'Save' push button in the height-correct corner of the page. This will save the changes and apply the thumbnail to your video.

When you visit your channel, you'll now see that the thumbnail is alive! Wondering how you could ready a custom thumbnail to a video while getting it published? Read on to learn how you could do that.

How to Add a Custom Thumbnail While Publishing a Video

YouTube makes it easy to set a custom thumbnail to a video while publishing it.

Later successfully uploading your video, you'd come across a department at the bottom of the page named 'VIDEO THUMBNAILS' with three images. These images are screenshots from the video you just uploaded and have been machine-generated by YouTube so yous could set one of them as your video thumbnail.

YouTube video thumbnails section

To the right of these thumbnail images, y'all'd see a push button that says 'Custom thumbnail'. Only click on this button to upload and set the prototype of your choice as a thumbnail of the video.

Once you've successfully set your custom image every bit a thumbnail of the video, y'all can see a preview of it in the pinnacle left corner of the page.

If for some reason, you lot want to alter the image you lot but uploaded, yous could do that by clicking on the aforementioned paradigm at the bottom of the page to bandy it with another 1.