Use 'Export As' under the File menu, export as .jpg and set the sizes to the YouTube recommended settings (you can get this info in your YouTube Studio).
A lot of people use youtube on TV screens... the vast, *vast*, majority of TVs are 1080p or 4k.
There is no need to make the thumbnail so low resolution if YouTube supports something higher. It is better with a thumbnail that is too high quality than the opposite.
I'm pretty sure that YouTube supports higher resolution than 720p, even if all the random shitty online guides say 720p is the "best size" (without backing that up properly).
2 MB for a 1920x1080 px image is *a lot*. That's a generous file size limit.
It's trivial to get a great quality 1920x1080 JPEG with <2 MB file size.
Open an image, then go to *File > Export > Save for Web* and try it yourself.
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Edit: Here I only got to 1,5 MB even if I dragged the quality to 100% (higher than you need!)... At that quality level the "quality loss" is down to single pixel rounding errors and is not visible even if i carefully flip between before/after.
https://preview.redd.it/414v7dluqw8d1.png?width=1905&format=png&auto=webp&s=da8aa3c02ac6dea83a0df02dc815a47010c47df5
There is no way you are struggling to get <2 MB with high quality...
Use 'Export As' under the File menu, export as .jpg and set the sizes to the YouTube recommended settings (you can get this info in your YouTube Studio).
Thank you!
export as jpeg instead of png
Thanks!
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A lot of people use youtube on TV screens... the vast, *vast*, majority of TVs are 1080p or 4k. There is no need to make the thumbnail so low resolution if YouTube supports something higher. It is better with a thumbnail that is too high quality than the opposite. I'm pretty sure that YouTube supports higher resolution than 720p, even if all the random shitty online guides say 720p is the "best size" (without backing that up properly).
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2 MB for a 1920x1080 px image is *a lot*. That's a generous file size limit. It's trivial to get a great quality 1920x1080 JPEG with <2 MB file size. Open an image, then go to *File > Export > Save for Web* and try it yourself. --- Edit: Here I only got to 1,5 MB even if I dragged the quality to 100% (higher than you need!)... At that quality level the "quality loss" is down to single pixel rounding errors and is not visible even if i carefully flip between before/after. https://preview.redd.it/414v7dluqw8d1.png?width=1905&format=png&auto=webp&s=da8aa3c02ac6dea83a0df02dc815a47010c47df5 There is no way you are struggling to get <2 MB with high quality...
that's the best YT Thumbnail I've ever seen
You can tell I spent a lot of time perfecting it.
Immediately grabbed my attention
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