Transform Your Thumbnails,
Explode Your Channel.
The ultimate YouTube thumbnail course for educational creators to start winning the click and skyrocketing views. No experience needed.
Stop letting mediocre
thumbnails hide your content
and limit your channel’s
growth potential.
Trusted by
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Egor Howell, YouTuber
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Tintin’s Thumbnail Masterclass is an excellent and concise course about what you should do to your thumbnails. I now use his thumbnail checklist for every video. I recommend this course to anyone looking to levelling up the thumbnail game!
Diana Perez, YouTuber
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Tintin does a fantastic job of breaking down the key elements that make a thumbnail stand out. The pacing was spot on for both beginners and those with some design experience. I highly recommend!
James McElligott, YouTuber
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This very reasonably priced course is bang on, and presented by someone who has really acted on his ideas. Simple, straight forward and well-presented, this is the go to course for YouTube thumbnail creation.
Thumbnail Masterclass
Thumbnail Masterclass is a course designed specifically for educational YouTubers to go from lacklustre thumbnails to creating eye-catching, clickable designs that blow up your channel. All without needing to know a thing about Photoshop.
No MrBeast examples. No complicated design tools. No fluff.
Simple, important information explained for educational YouTubers wanting to blow up their channel and business.
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Let’s face it, making great thumbnails is one of the hardest parts of being a YouTuber. And unfortunately, it's also the most costly thing to not be good at. If viewers don’t click on your thumbnail, they don’t watch your video. It’s just the way YouTube works.
On top of that, YouTube is more competitive than ever, and the competition starts on the homepage with thumbnails. It’s getting harder and harder to win the click.
It’s frustrating to pour hours into a video only to have it ignored because your thumbnail didn’t catch anyone’s eye. It can feel truly heartbreaking. You know your content is valuable, but it’s like shouting into the void when no one clicks.
And what’s worse? The more your thumbnails miss the mark, the more you lose momentum and stop believing you can grow your channel. This isn’t just a minor issue; it’s the difference between a channel that reaches it’s potential and one that stagnates.
It's different for entertainment channels like MrBeast with flashy thumbnails and huge budgets to grab attention. But what if your content is educational, teaching people valuable skills like cooking, business, or personal development?
The challenge is even greater. You can’t rely on shock value or sensationalism.
Instead, you need to understand the subtle psychology that creates curiosity, conveys value, and drives clicks – all with a single image.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Of course you can figure it out on your own, but you can save months, if not years of your YouTube journey, by knowing how to make a good thumbnail from day one.
And here’s the good news: You don’t need to be a graphic designer or a marketing genius to make thumbnails that get results.
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Who Am I?
I’m Tintin – yes, that’s my real name 🙃 – and my passion is helping educational YouTubers like you maximise your impact, save time, and make more money. I want more educators to share their message through YouTube.
In 2021, I started my own YouTube channel while working as a management consultant, and grew it to 8,000 subscribers. My success led me to joining Ali Abdaal (5.7 million subscribers) as his Head of YouTube.
For the past 2 years I’ve run the entire channel, growing it by around 3m subscribers while helping generate millions in revenue and designing 100s of thumbnails in the process.
But during that time, I noticed a huge problem.
So many educational YouTubers were struggling with thumbnails (including me) and no one had made a comprehensive guide on how to go from complete beginner to expert. So here we are.
"But What If I’m Not Creative or Have Tried Before and Failed?"
You might be thinking, “I’m not a designer,” or “I’ve tried making thumbnails before, and I just can’t do it” — well I get it.
But this course is designed to work specifically for people who don’t see themselves as creative. I’ll show you simple, proven strategies that anyone can follow. And you’ll learn the basic principles that turn any thumbnail into a clickable one, without needing an artistic background.
You don’t need to know how to use Photoshop or other expensive design tools. We’ll use user-friendly tools like Canva to create professional-looking thumbnails that get clicks.
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Okay, so what’s actually in the course?
Great question 😃, here’s what the course curriculum looks like:
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There’s almost 4 hours of video modules with over a hundred thumbnail examples, with one goal.
To help you transform your thumbnails to blow up your educational YouTube channel.
This course is designed to be engaging, easy to digest, and – most importantly – actionable.
You can consume it in a few hours, then you can go off and work on your channel with significantly more knowledge.
After this, you’ll have saved yourself months, if not years, of learning. I’m making it because it’s the course I wish I had when I was getting started on YouTube, and I want to help you avoid the pain I went through.
This course isn’t just for any YouTuber – it’s designed specifically for educational creators like you. All the examples are from successful educational channels. No flashy MrBeast-style thumbnails here – just real, actionable insights that work in your niche.
Pricing & Guarantee
Standard
Reduced from $297
$299 $199
The full Thumbnail Masterclass course — a complete guide to making YouTube thumbnails for educational creators, including an Analytics Template to measure performance
Lifetime Access — (more modules, bonuses and templates will be added over time)
Covered by my money back guarantee — see below for more detail
Pro
9 slots left!
$1,490
Everything in the basic package
Weekly Masterminds — once per week, for 8 weeks, I’ll host a small-group session to discuss your thumbnails and share feedback. We can talk about thumbnails or any other part of YouTube you’d like help with. You’ll also benefit from the advice of the other YouTubers in the group. This is limited to 10 slots to keep the sessions focused and inclusive.
100% Money Back Guarantee
I’m confident this course will transform your thumbnails. If you complete the content and don’t feel it provides value, I’ll refund your money—no questions asked.
FAQs
Educational YouTubers or thumbnail designers who want to make better thumbnails. Whether your niche is cooking, finance, personal development, fashion or even how to level up your sewing skills, this course will help you improve your thumbnails.
For entertainment first YouTubers with flashy, sensationalised content. All the examples in this course are taken from educational channels, so it won’t be as helpful.
There’s around 4 hours of content plus a few written lessons. Perfect for a Sunday morning with a coffee (or two) ☕
That’s ok, neither am I! I was terrible at art at school, and hated drawing and design. But I learned to love making thumbnails when I realised a) I didn’t have to use Photoshop and b) there are some simple tricks that transform your thumbnails.
Yes, it doesn’t matter how much experience you have, you’ll still get value from the course.
Yes! I had zero experience when I started as well. This course is built so that people like you know everything they need to know to go from beginner to master in a few hours.
You’ll need to learn how to make thumbnails at some point. Now might not be the right time, but it depends on how seriously you’re taking your channel from taking day one. If you’re taking it very seriously, then it will certainly help you out.
Yes, of course 😉 If you still want help deciding or have other questions, email tintinsmithbusiness@gmail.com