An attractive and clickable thumbnail bring more visitors to your video. If your thumbnails will not show fully/showing a black bar on both up/down or right/left side then it will not show attractively. Are you thinking why your thumbnails showing black bar?. Well, the answer is youtube accepts 16:9 size thumbnails. If your video thumbnails will more or less than the 16:9 ratio then youtube will add black bar in up/down the site or in left/right side. Like this:-
How to fix youtube black bar thumbnail problem?:-
The solution is simple just make your picture according to 16:9 size frame then upload. In this case, I use adobe photoshop. Here I am attaching some screenshots where you will understand how to adjust the size.
First, open the picture which you wanted to set as a thumbnail. Then go to image size.
Then a window will open where you have to adjust the picture size.
If you right mark on 'Constrain Proportions' then if you put a value like 1600 in width then the hight size will adjust auto according to width. That's why to unmark the 'Constrain Proportions'. Then if you put 1600 and hight will not change auto. After putting 16:9 size(i always put 1600 in width and 900 in hight size) then clicks on 'ok' and saves the file. Then you could upload the picture with no black bar problem. Watch this video where I showed how to adjust the size and how to fix the youtube thumbnail black bar problem.
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