Critique My Thumbnails Please

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Thumbnail Advice

Critique My Thumbnails Please

[solid kettle]

Too much going on in the sides for me personally

Also the font sucks

(The first one)

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Roger. I make these in PowerPoint. I just thought this design was cool. Thank you for the feedback.

[solid kettle]

I actually like the second one. I just wouldn’t have the weird postcard effect and erase the “path to Yggdrasil”

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I'm honestly just glad you could see the postcard effect I was going for, good to know it's bad though lol

[gusty bay]

So personally I've played a bit of rivals and make gaming content myself.

So going off thumbnails alone i don't think these are particularly strong at all.

So road to celestial #7 thumbnail,

Flat text that blends in with the background at a glance. Ideally you want a stroke around the text and a more appealing color used. I think the composition needs alot of work.

Using the background in the middle and two black boxes on the sides with random character makes the thumbnail look messy. Ideally you want 1-2 main focal point and in that thumbnail your eye goes all over the place.

Path thumbnail is a bit odd for me.
It has essentially two background and not a fan of the color of the text here but I will give you credit it doesn't blend into the background but it also doesn't pop.

The final thumbnail is in my opinion the strongest but its still a bit weak. It actually reads like one of those meme.exe videos.

As far as making thumbnail i would suggest an actual program. Theres canva which is free in the browser. Or download gimp its free and comparable to photoshop. Either or will be a step up in what you can do.

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Got it. The idea for the first was to like put the characters that were in the game in the thumbnail. Too messy, noted

It was supposed to be like a postcard of the map that was in the game. Too boring, noted

Yeah this one was a video where I tried a .exe style of editing so I'm glad that came across at least.

I will try those. Thank you so much for taking the time to give me feedback

[gusty bay]

Another thing to think about is your still a beginner so your thumbnail and content are going to be rough around the edges. The more you create and the more you edit/make thumbnails ideally the better you get.