Face and Headline YouTube thumbnail templates
The thumbnail most big channels post: one expressive face on one side, three or four huge stroked words on the other.
The face carries the emotion and the headline carries the promise, and nothing else competes. These eight vary the split (face left, face right, face centred between two lines), the headline treatment (white with a black stroke, one line in a filled box, one word in the accent colour) and the ground (flat colour, glow, a single photograph). Each ships with a generated cut-out you replace with your own photo, and every word, box and stroke is an editable layer at 1280x720.