It's another beautiful night to accomplish something tangible with hive. The newbies initiative kicked off and ever since, I have been having beautiful times while making new friends who are not only awesome but lovely too.
Made using canva
The rise of thumbnails in the world of blogging has made it easy and attracting for people to stop by an authors post and reads its content. Canva on the other hand has made it very easy for those who don't have a laptop to design thumbnails from the comfort of their phone given that they have good internet connections.
MY UNDERSTANDING OF THUMBNAILS
Thumbnails very important when blogging as it gives the reader an idea of the content of a post. Thumbnails can be said to be a brief pictorial representation of the content in an authors post.
** RELEVANCE OF THUMBNAILS AND WHY IT SHOULD BE STUNNING**
A stunning thumbnail attracts more traffic on an authors post. A thumbnail should be beautified and be made based on the context of explanation in a particular post so that the readers could get a clue of what the writer is contextualizing.
THE GENERAL SIZE AND DIMENSIONS OF A THUMBNAIL
A thumbnail should not have a very long length and fat width. A thumbnail should neither be long or short but should be fit to screen so that if the browser is set at desktop site, it could still fit.
That being said, a thumbnails dimensions should be as follows:
**Width = 1280 **
height. = 720
Therefore: 1280x720pix
MAKING TWO CANVA DESIGNS
First step in this process is to open the app and if you don't have the Canva app, you should download from playstore or appstore.
Next click on where the arrow is pointing at
After that, click on the 1280x720pix. In the picture, the YouTube banner has it, and that's why I used it.
Next, you'll have the editing board to yourself.
The next thing I did was to upload a color, and I used yellow for this.
Next up, I added a picture frame and a picture on it and placed it on a suitable location.
Next up, I added all my text and beautified it to my taste, I even added some italic text on a normal bold text and it looks cool
At the bottom left corner, I added some curved lines with different colors to make it more beautiful.
After all of my abracadabra, I decided to save image.
THE SECOND CANVA
The second Canva is below 👇
WHY USE THE JPG FORMAT OVER OTHER FORMATS?
The jpg format for image export is preferred by people because it compress the image and not allow it take up more space. Documents saved through this format saves space and time during uploads, that is - uploading images saved as jpg is easier and faster.
All images were designed using the canva android app and the screenshots belong to me.
Thank you for stopping by m post, I really appreciate and hope to see you next time.
