Free online YouTube thumbnail maker.
Command the attention of your audience and make them stop while scrolling with stunning YouTube thumbnails. Get started with free thumbnail design templates you can customise.
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Make your YouTube thumbnail for free on the Adobe Express app.
Experiment with custom YouTube thumbnail templates.
Providing your audience with a standout preview of your YouTube channel - be it personal or business - has never been this easy. The Adobe Express free thumbnail maker lets you dive deep into the most striking templates for thumbnail design for YouTube, no matter what the niche. Use it to create a Brand Kit to apply your logo, brand colour schemes, and fonts across all your videos.
Collection ID
(To pull in manually curated templates if needed)
Orientation
(Horizontal/Vertical)
Width
(Full, Std, sixcols)
Limit
(number of templates to load each pagination. Min. 5)
Sort
Most Viewed
Rare & Original
Newest to Oldest
Oldest to Newest
Premium
(true, false, all) true or false will limit to premium only or free only.
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How to make a thumbnail for YouTube.
Instantly create a powerful YouTube thumbnail design for better clickability.
Impressed by the viral YouTube videos for your favourite creators and their thumbnails? Wondering how you can design better thumbnails for YouTube without any prior experience? Try the Adobe Express online thumbnail maker which offers tons of free templates to choose from to get you inspired. Search by topic, niche, or aesthetic to see what other designers have created. Or you can start from a blank canvas and drag and drop icons, graphics, text, and so much more to your project until you have a YouTube thumbnail design that resonates with you and your channel.
Attract your audience with our free thumbnail maker.
The secret of subscriber and view count growth are now yours, thanks to endless possibilities to customise your YouTube thumbnail design with Adobe Express. For example, when you choose a photo as your background on the free thumbnail creator, you can zoom in or out and change its colour with an assortment of filters and palettes. As you move through the steps provided by the YouTube thumbnail template, craft your thumbnail your way to make it unique and special.
Do more with your photos for authentic YouTube thumbnails.
Be you with Adobe Express and tell your video or channel's story in a visual way - especially those that feature you! Make yourself instantly recognisable to loyal subscribers and new viewers with our free thumbnail maker for YouTube. Start by uploading your own snapshot onto your design from your device or take a screengrab from a video frame. You can also remove the background for amazing headshots. Edit even further with Adobe Express, changing brightness, tone, contrast, and more with ease.
Design in Hindi, Bengali and Tamil.
No more language limitations! Adobe Express is now available in three of India’s most spoken languages, making it even easier to create everything from cards and social posts to flyers and video content. Design with confidence in the language that feels most natural to you.