I welcome you all to my blog, this is another episode of the newbies initiative task, we are in week 5, the meeting started at exactly 8 pm on Sunday and our tutor for the day is @olujay he talked extensively on how to design thumbnails using Canva app and here are the task of the week
With your understanding, explain what you understand by "thumbnail." Hence, discuss why they have to be stunning and of important it is to create content
MY UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THUMBNAIL
The thumbnail is an image that summarizes the topic of a post or piece of content. People should be able to figure out what your post is all about by just looking at the thumbnail you created.
IMPORTANCE OF THUMBNAILS
An outstanding thumbnail has the power to either attract more readers to your post or turn them off, it is what sells your post to people in other to engage, it is very essential as a writer or blogger on Hive, you make sure that your thumbnail matches the content of your post.
What are the dimensions of creating thumbnails? What is the general size (or dimensions) for a thumbnail, and explain why it is so.
DIMENSION FOR CREATING THUMBNAILS
Our tutor talked about his preferred dimension which is the YouTube thumbnail on Canva and the dimension is 1280 x 720 px he also mentioned that this dimension is the standard dimension for thumbnails and if we use another dimension it is possible for our thumbnail to come out squeeze.
For this task, make two thumbnails. Use one as the main, and provide the other in the post. Both images should be different yet relevant to the post. Hence, provide a step-by-step explanation of how you achieve each.
STEPS ON HOW I CREATED THIS THUMBNAIL
This is the second thumbnail I created for my post and I will share my step-by-step on how I did it.
Step 1:- I clicked on my Canva app and it displayed and took me to the home page, this is what the home page looks like.
The black arrow represents my indicator, if you are conversant with Canva then all your designs will be on the recently designed row.
Step 2:- click on the search box and type thumbnail, it will bring out different designs and formats for thumbnails then you will choose anyone you wish to use, it will display it like this
You have the right to pick any design of choice, all you have to do is add your preferred write-up
Step 3:- Click on any design of your choice, and change the write-up to the one that goes in line with the topic you are writing about
This is the design I love but I need to change the picture to mine, and I will be using two pictures for this design, click on the picture then check the toolbar under the APP and click on REPLACE, this is where you can change the formal picture to your preferred picture.
Step 4:- After inputting your choice of picture then click on the + to double your picture
Then you can change the picture to the one you would like to use as background or you can still use the same picture as your background picture, but I changed mine to another picture
Step 5:- How to move the other picture as my background picture, I click on the picture and then check the toolbar and click on send backward by clicking on that, it will automatically move the picture backward, then the next step is...
Step 6:- Under the toolbar search for transparency, and adjust how you want the background picture to look like.
Final step:- Adjust the initial write-up to your content by clicking on the initial write-up and input your topic on it
That is how to design on Canva, the last step is to save your design so that it will added to your gallery
Press that symbol and your design will be saved.
Explain why the JPG format should be your preferred export format.
JPG is the best format for photos on the internet, And the reason for this is that it requires less storage.