YouTube Thumbnails
I'm having a problem: I have normal videos on my channel, but the thumbnails come out blurry and distorted. I tried uploading different versions, made a 1280×720 image in Photoshop, everything seems to be as recommended by YouTube, but the quality still deteriorates when uploading. And without normal previews, there are no views at all — I understand that people don't click on them. How do you upload good quality images to YouTube? Could there be some tricks to prevent YouTube from compressing them so much?
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Yes, on YouTube, preview quality greatly affects clicks. When videos don't get views, it's often because of the preview. It may be too blurry or boring. In such cases, it's worth using https://streamerplus.com/tools/youtube-thumbnails-download/. For example, I recently downloaded an image in its original resolution, tweaked it a bit, and re-uploaded it. As a result, my CTR almost doubled. It's convenient that the service extracts previews in different sizes: small for social networks, large for the video itself. Now, even if I want to take a frame from someone else's video as a reference, I just copy the link and get a Full HD image.