How to Upload a Video To YouTube - Part 2

Should I call this part one?
 

I knew someone has already made a video on how to upload a video to YouTube, so I'm just going to focus on something that has perturbed marketers for years. Marketers, used to love to put boobs at their videos about their business opportunity, day at the beach or Microsoft Office tutorials because they knew that they automatically would  get more views. So, YouTube had this algorithm to randomize when a screen shot would be taken of the videos. Marketers did their best to time it, and this battle went on for years. And, then today I noticed that YouTube caved, probably for the sake of their partners and realizing that marketers spend money with them. They now let you insert a picture to be featured as the thumbnail for when your video shows up in results.

The sort of problems I used to get was, three options, but all of them were bad. One of my faces was particularly outrageous today, so I had to share it.

 
I'm pretty sure you know which one it is. Yes, I tend to open my eyes too wide sometimes...kkk kkk 

But, you see that last one, the one that's all pretty with the green and pink writing on it. That's a screen shot I took from Miscroft Powerpoint. FlipCam software was not cooperating with me to get a screen shot. So, I inserted the video into Miscroft word. I changed the tint, and then I set the display to 100% for slideshow view. I pressed the "Print Screen" button (which takes a screen shot of whatever's on your screen), and then I pasted the picture into Microsoft word. Now, I guess I could have pasted the picture into Microsoft Powerpoint to accomplish the same thing. But, the thing is, with the new Microsoft Office, I have 2010, you can right click on a picture and save it to your files. So, you can move from screen shot to jpeg or png very quickly.

After that I just used Google's Picasa Web Albums to add the text to it. I used to use Picnik.com, but if you've ever used that site, you know that it was bought out by Google, and they have added the photo editing features from Picnik.com to their mix of tools in Picasa Web Albums.

I don't have screen shots of the steps because I'm slightly lazy about this, and did not even set out to create a tutorial today. I just thought that that third to last screen shot that YouTube took was murder.

-Lis Carpenter