Adobe Express
Your all-in-one AI content creation app for making stunning thumbnails, social posts, images, videos, flyers, and more. Create content seamlessly with syncing across computer and mobile devices, so you can work where ever you are. With a free option as well as a standalone paid version or as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Photoshop
Create gorgeous images, rich graphics, and incredible art with Photoshop. Tap into the power of AI photo editing. Edit images with text prompts. Remove and replace your background. Remove unwanted objects with Content-Aware Fill. Make bold edits with layer masks. Make your mark with Photoshop brushes. And so much more. Options available within the Adobe Creative Cloud.
Affinity Photo – Graphics
Affinity Photo has become the first choice for photography and creative professionals around the world, who love its speed, power and precision. Born to work hand-in-hand with the latest powerful computer technology, it’s the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across MacOS, Windows and iOS. If you’re looking for graphics/photo editing software to make thumbnails or other social media assets without having to pay a monthly fee, this is it.
Canva
Canva is a cloud-based graphic design tool used to create Thumbnails but also so much more, on-brand marketing content, sales presentations and videos. Thats right you can even edit videos in Canva. Canva has been designed for ease of use, getting the functionality of some of the more in depth graphics apps without the learning curve. Canva is available in both a Free and Paid Version
Gimp – Image Editor
Gimp is a great option for thumbnail design, its a feature rich image editor. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. Gimp is Free to use.
PhotoPea – Online Image Editor
PhotoPea is a web-based graphic design tool that you can use to create Thumbnails, using their many template options or starting from scratch.
PlaceIt
They don’t just have the largest library, they also have the easiest way to make mockups. Just drop your design and in & they generate the mockup! In addition to a huge archive of mockups they also have animated YouTube end screens, YouTube channel art, Instagram and YouTube story templates…the list just goes on and on. You really need to just check out PlaceIt for yourself so you can see all of the incredible templates they have. Check out PlaceIt here.
Tuber Tools – Video Graphics & More
TuberTools is a store and membership site where you can get pre-made video graphics, end screens, channel art, thumbnail templates, transitions and more to use in your videos and on your YouTube channel. This resource was created by me (Nick Nimmin) for YouTube content creators.
YouTube Starter Kit (By Roberto Blake)
The YouTube Starter Kit was put together by YouTube expert Roberto Blake to give content creators all of the graphics they need when starting a YouTube channel. The biggest feedback from the starter kit is how awesome and easy to use the channel header and thumbnail templates are. You can edit them in free web based apps, Affinity Photo or in Photoshop. So if you’re looking to level up your thumbnail game, check out the YouTube Starter Kit.