Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • 🎥 Welcome ! Watch Me To Access The Course

    • 🚨 Community Chat Room Set Up Tutorial

    • 🎥 Introducing your instructors

  2. 2

    • 🎥 Why People Click On Videos

    • 🎓 Why People Click Quiz

    • 🎥 The Hero Concept

    • 🎥 The 8 Most POWERFUL Thumbnail Strategies

    • 🎓 Spot The Stakes

    • 📃Thumbnail Strategy Cheat Sheet

    • 🎥 Your New Strategy + Design Process

    • ✍🏼 Thumbnail strategy & design checklist

    • 🎥 Building A Thumbnail Treasure Chest

    • 🎥 Power People & Power Products

    • ✅ Module 1 - Tasks To Complete

    • 🤥 Module 1 Cheat Sheet

  3. 3

    • 🎥 The 8 Thumbnail Design "Rules" You Shouldn't Ignore

    • 🎥 Thumbnail Design Mistakes You MUST Avoid

    • ⬇️ Download the thumbnail survival pack

    • 🤥 Module 2 - Cheat Sheet

  4. 4

    • 🎥 Photography Basics To Master

    • 🤥 Photography Settings Cheat Sheet

    • 🎥 Composition, Aspect Ratio & Hierarchy

    • 🤥 Composition Cheat Sheet

    • 🎓 Camera basics quiz

    • 🎥 Photography Equipment - Everything You Need

    • 🤥 Camera Lens Cheat Sheet

    • 📷 Thumbnail Kit List

    • 🎓 Camera Lens Quiz

    • 🎥 Posing for thumbnails

    • ⬇️Photoshop Rule Of Thirds Grid File

  5. 5

    • 🎥 3 Powerful Thumbnail Lighting Styles

    • 🤥 Lighting Style Cheat Sheet

    • 🎥 Lighting Equipment Essentials

    • 🤥 Kit List Cheat Sheet

    • 🎥 How To Set Up Your Lighting Style

    • 🤥 Lighting Set Up Cheat Sheet

    • ☑️ Lighting Set Up Check List
  6. 6

    • 🎥 Setting up a Thumbnail Document

    • 🎥 Creating And Using Layers

    • 🎥 Using The Undo Tool

    • 🎥 Using The Marquee Tool

    • 🎥 Scaling With The Transform & The Shape Tool

    • 🎥 The Lasso tool

    • 🎥 The Magic Wand (Extracting items)

    • 🎥 Paintbrush & The Eyedropper Tool

    • 🎥 Clone Stamp & The Eraser (Sounds like a band from the 80s)

    • 🎥 Gradients

    • 🎥 Blur, Sharpen, Smudge Tool, Dodge And Burn

    • 🎥 The Pen Tool, Creating Type, Moving Around & Zooming In

    • 🎥 Layer Blending Modes, Drop Shadows & Glows

    • 🎥 Saving & Experiment With Variations

    • 🤥 Photoshop Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
  7. 7

    • Why This Matters SOOOO Much 😎
  8. 8

    • 🎥 Introducing The Walkthrough Modules (Time To Level Up 🤩)

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy, Production & Planning (Beginner)

    • ⬇️ Download the photos of Ed to work along with

    • 🎥 Step 2/Part 1: Photoshop Walkthrough Part 1 (Beginner)

    • 🎥 Step 2/Part 2: Photoshop Walkthrough (Beginner)

    • 🎥 Step 3: Finished Thumbnail Review (Beginner)

    • 🎥 Step 4: Strategy, Production & Planning (Intermediate)

    • 🎥 Step 5: Photoshop Walkthrough (Intermediate)

    • 🎥 Step 6: Finished Thumbnail Review (Intermediate)

    • 🎥 Step 7: Strategy, Production & Planning (Pro)

    • 🎥 Step 8/Part 1: Photoshop Walkthrough (Pro)

    • 🎥 Step 8/Part 2: Photoshop Walkthrough (Pro)

    • 🎥 Step 8/Part 3: Photoshop Walkthrough (Pro)

    • 🎥 Step 9: Finished Thumbnail Review (Pro)

  9. 9

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy, Production & Planning

    • 🎥 Step 2: Photoshop Walkthrough Part 1

    • 🎥 Step 2: Photoshop Walkthrough Part 2

    • 🎥 Step 3: Finished Thumbnail Review

  10. 10

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy, Production & Planning (Coloured Lights)

    • 🎥 Step 2: Photoshop Walkthrough (Coloured Lights)

    • 🎥 Step 3: Finished Thumbnail Review (Coloured Lights)

    • 🎥 Step 4: Strategy Production & Planning Walkthrough (Coloured Card)

    • 🎥 Step 5: Photoshop Walkthrough (Coloured Card)

    • 🎥 Step 6: Finished Thumbnail Review (Coloured Card)

    • 🎥 Step 7: Strategy Production & Planning Walkthrough (Slick Grade)

    • 🎥 Step 8: Photoshop Walkthrough (Slick Grade)

    • 🎥Step 9: Finished Thumbnail Review (Slick Grade)
  11. 11

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy, Production & Planning

    • 🎥 Step 2: Photoshop Walkthrough

    • 🎥 Step 3: Finished Thumbnail Review

  12. 12

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy Production & Planning (ADVANCED)

    • 🎥 Step 2/Part 1: Photoshop Walkthrough (ADVANCED)

    • 🎥 Step 2/Part 2: Photoshop Walkthrough (ADVANCED)

    • 🎥 Step 3: Finished Thumbnail Review

  13. 13

    • 🎥 Do THIS & Save Time

    • 🎥 Creating Your Thumbnail Brand

    • 🎥 Now what?

    • ✅ Tasks - Batch Shooting & finding your brand style

    • 😊 Leave a video review

    • 😊 Leave a written review

  14. 14

    • Intro to AI - Game changing uses

    • Use AI To Add Change Items In Your Hands

    • Create a realistic looking background using AI

    • Make it look like you took a photo from much further away

  15. 15

    • 🎥 Step 1: Strategy, Planning & Production

    • 🎥 Step 2: Photoshop

    • 🎥 Step 3: Review

  16. 16

    • Create a pleasing gradient background

    • Creating a clean, minimal, but slick looking background

    • Fake 3D text

    • Fix colour spill on hair

    • How to create a grain texture for your background

    • How to level up product images

    • How to remove distracting elements

    • How you emphasise words in your thumbnail

    • Making icons look alive

    • How to create graph lines in Illustrator

  17. 17

    • Monthly Zoom Link

    • ❓ Submit your thumbnails for the monthly live

    • Links mentioned in the course
  18. 18

    • ⬇️ Download the photos of Ed to work along with the videos

    • ⬇️ Rule Of Thirds Photoshop Grid

    • ⬇️ Thumbnail Survival Pack

    • ⬇️ Lighting Set Up Cheat Sheet

    • ⬇️ Thumbnail Strategy Cheat Sheet

    • ⬇️ Camera settings cheat sheet

    • ⬇️ NEW: CUSTOMISABLE 3D ICON TILES

    • ⬇️ NEW: GRAPH PACK
  19. 19

    • Jan 31st 2023 - Live Call

    • FEB 28TH - LIVE CALL

    • MARCH 28TH 2023 - LIVE CALL

    • APIRL 25th 2023 - LIVE CALL

    • MAY 31ST 2023 - LIVE CALL

    • JUNE 27th 2023 - LIVE CALL

    • JULY 2023 CALL

    • AUGUST 2023 CALL

    • SEPTEMBER 2023 CALL

    • OCTOBER 2023 CALL

    • NOVEMBER 2023 CALL

    • DECEMBER 2023

    • JAN 2024 LIVE CALL

    • FEB 2024 LIVE CALL

    • MARCH 2024

    • APRIL 2024

    • MAY 2024

    • July 2404 - Split tester demo