YouTube’s giving Shorts creators extra choices to customise their thumbnails, with the capability to edit your Shorts thumbnail body publish add, by including textual content and filters to the picture.

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, now, you’ll have the ability to select a body in your Shorts thumbnail, then add textual content and filters to alter the look of that picture. You’ll be able to’t add customized Shorts thumbnails as but, however this offers extra methods to customise your Shorts presentation.

So why can’t you simply add wholly customized Shorts thumbnails, like you’ll be able to with common YouTube clips?

Nicely, in YouTube’s view, you don’t actually need to.

Whereas Shorts thumbnail enhancing has been a much-requested characteristic, YouTube says that Shorts thumbnails will not be as necessary as common video thumbnail photos, as a result of most customers come throughout Shorts clips throughout the Shorts feed, i.e. they’re scrolling by way of the full-screen video show, versus tapping on a smaller thumbnail to activate a Shorts clip.

That mentioned, there are different methods for customers to seek out your Shorts, and YouTube’s additionally making an attempt to cater to this.

As per YouTube:

“As a reminder Shorts thumbnails will solely present on search hashtag and audio pivot pages and in your channel. We’re exploring bringing extra performance to shorts thumbnails subsequent yr.”

So customized Shorts thumbnails might nonetheless be on the horizon, however in the intervening time, YouTube’s seeking to construct a decrease spec variation, by way of thumb body enhancing, because it assesses whether or not it actually wants so as to add customized thumbnail uploads for Shorts as properly.

So for now, you’ll be able to solely add textual content, filters and emojis to your Shorts thumb frames, however quickly, you will have extra enhancing and customization capability.

Possibly.

Until then, you’ll need to accept this.

You’ll be able to be taught extra about the best way to use YouTube’s new thumbnail enhancing choices for Shorts right here.