The Design Process of Creating a Youtube Thumbnail

This isn't a "How to make great thumbnails" tutorial. This is more of a process video that shows how I made the thumbnail for my previous tutorial, and this video too, using Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. The same concepts should work in any application such as Photoshop, Gimp, or Krita.

Table of Contents: 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - Getting Started / Grabbing Stills 01:27 - Layout Concept 02:18 - Placing my Stills into Affinity Photo 02:57 - Creating the Day to Night Gradient Masks 03:56 - Masking and Moving the Layer Groups for the Top/Bottom Layout 05:21 - Research and Drawing the Day to Night Icon in Affinity Designer 08:01 - Pasting the Drawing into Affinity Photo and Changing the Color 09:30 - Placing the Davinci Resolve Logo 09:42 - Testing "Before" and "After" Text in the Composition 10:15 - Thomas Appreciating the Color Grade 10:35 - Making the Graphics "Pop" with a Drop Shadow and Changing The Gradient Direction 12:15 - Scrapping That Idea and Moving Forward with a Better Technique 15:36 - ... and How I Made the Thumbnail for THIS Video 18:43 - Outro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wu0PfEVEFo