I Built a Campfire Kitchen for under $50

[outer burrow]

video about my new backyard studio

[burnt wind]

I love this thumbnail! The red outline draws perfect attention to your face and the yellow text gives the main topic of the video “Campfire Kitchen” instant recognition! Great job!

[vague raptor]

Agreed. My only suggestion would be to consider shifting your image more to left – perhaps crop at your fist. This would allow you to make the text just a little bigger. Looks great though!

[burnt wind]

I agree with this! To make this good thumbnail greater, I would do that so you can increase the text size making it easier to read on the thumbnail!

[merry peak]

Wow! You have made a dramatic step up with your thumbnails, keep applying what these guys suggest to you and you will definitely grow your channel, good work👏

[outer burrow]

Thank you for your kind words. It's because of all of your support @merry peak @burnt wind @vague raptor @remote dock that this progress is possible

[vague raptor]

Creators Helping Creators 😬

[outer burrow]

I wanted to also say one of the changes made was taking high res close ups of me infront of a green screen with different expressions like 50 and using those for future thumbnails. i would suggest anyone that hasnt already to do so. This came from a deep dive the other day in mrbeast interviews where he said they have thousands of high res pictures of him in all sorts of expressions down to the smallest changes to be used for there thumbnail makers

[vague raptor]

Yes! This is a great idea and one that I employ on our channels too – albeit with our avatars, but nonetheless, similar approach 😆 Glad you tapped into this Ryan, this will certainly help your thumbnail production process 👍

[unreal talon]

Very eye catching! Is there an actual light behind your head or did you somehow "brush" in the glow?

[outer burrow]

brush on glow

both photos had good lighting and that helped

[dreamy glen]

Wow! this is a great thumbnail especially as compared to your previous one which was what I saw when I first joined this server 🙂 i am inspired by how much you've improved since that post

[frozen matrix]

Maybe instead of having your face as the main part of the thumbnail, put more emphasis on the kitchen stove. Because your face doesn’t really tell what’s going on in the video, it’s better to put the main part of the video as visible as possible. That’s what I think at least.

[remote dock]

center your face, remove your thumbs up (if anything, you should be holding something to do with the campfire kitchen), and make sure "UNDER $50" is emphasized more. That's what makes this more relatable and intriguing.