(energized music) 2 2
Instructor: Let's talk about putting graphics 3 3
or emojis on your thumbnail images. 4 4
I found that this strategy works out really, really well. 5 5
I sometimes use a website called powtoons.com 6 6
to create videos, as well 7 7
and my thumbnail images. 8 8
But let's talk about how I made this one here, 9 9
which is when should you start your company. 10 10
I like to get my images from 11 11
this service here I mentioned before 12 12
called Storyblocks. 13 13
I think it was a rocket on the image. 14 14
Let me search for rocket. 15 15
These are ones I've used in the past. 16 16
I love the rocket analogy. 17 17
I put this in one of my course thumbnails as well. 18 18
Oh, here it is here, okay. 19 19
So, I'll download this. 20 20
And we'll make this thumbnail, we'll recreate it. 21 21
All right, so I'll copy this. 22 22
And we'll go over here to Photoshop 23 23
and we'll select new. 24 24
And, like always, we're going to use the same dimensions. 25 25
1280 by 720, okay. 26 26
That's YouTube format, 1280 by 720. 27 27
And I like the resolution to be a little bit higher. 28 28
Create. 29 29
And I'm going to paste 30 30
and let me just select 31 31
control or command t. 32 32
I'll zoom out and I will throw this image on there. 33 33
There we go. 34 34
Yeah. This works out great. 35 35
These images usually get a lot of clicks. 36 36
Okay. 37 37
And I want that to be about halfway there. 38 38
See the halfway mark was automatically highlighted for me. 39 39
That looks about right there. 40 40
And then what I'll do is, 41 41
I'll name this here rocket. 42 42
And there's a reason why we haven't added text yet. 43 43
I want to basically make the background green 44 44
or the same color all the way around here. 45 45
So, what I can do here is 46 46
I can actually change the color of the background. 47 47
So, let me just teardrop that. 48 48
And then I'll actually paint that. 49 49
So, I'll select the paintbrush here 50 50
and I'll just do one quick little paint stroke. 51 51
Good, we're done. 52 52
Okay, nice. 53 53
And I'm actually going to drag this image over slightly. 54 54
Okay. 55 55
Make it slightly bigger too. 56 56
And I actually made a mistake on this one, too 57 57
because, well sort of mistake. 58 58
What I usaully say is try not to have any writing 59 59
here underneath where the time count is 60 60
and I had the episode number there. 61 61
I'll just skip the episode number for now. 62 62
But try not to put any text there. 63 63
I made a mistake there. 64 64
oKAY. 65 65
So, when should you start your company. 66 66
So, we've talked about adding text before, 67 67
so I'll do this pretty quickly. 68 68
All caps is always. 69 69
And let's just go over here 70 70
and change the spacing between the lines. 71 71
Let me select the biggest number we can. 72 72
It's a little bit too much, obviously. 73 73
Make it a bit less. 74 74
And I want to make the font 75 75
actually sized a lot bigger. 76 76
Click on it, control or command t. 77 77
And then here. 78 78
And we can play around this as well. 79 79
I didn't do the best job here 80 80
of replicating what I did before 81 81
because what I did before was, I had it all like that 82 82
when should you start your company. 83 83
And let me just actually center it instead. 84 84
Get it as big as you can 85 85
so it's within balance. 86 86
And then what I want to do is 87 87
I actually want to change the 88 88
color of this slightly 89 89
just to kinda match what color I have over here. 90 90
So, highlight all this, 91 91
color - make that not too noticeable 92 92
but I like to be consistent. 93 93
And then what we can do is 94 94
let's also go here, double click 95 95
and let's add a bit of a drop shadow. 96 96
Slight drop shadow, that's way too much. 97 97
Whoops. 98 98
Select your drop shadow square. 99 99
Opacity a lot less. 100 100
That's fine. 101 101
And then what I can do is I can even 102 102
add a very slight stroke. 103 103
And I like to usually grab colors from over here 104 104
just to be consistent, so let's see what 105 105
happens if we grab, let's say purple. 106 106
And then I'll make this really, really thin. 107 107
See how that looks. 108 108
Looks all right. 109 109
All right. 110 110
And then I'm gonna hit control or command d to deselect. 111 111
Looks decent, looks decent. 112 112
Let's go back and compare. 113 113
Little bit different format there, that's fine. 114 114
That's good enough. 115 115
And then what you do is, 116 116
as always, you'd export it. 117 117
So, you go to export as. 118 118
It's got a standard two megs, 119 119
So, let's see what the size of the file's gonna be. 120 120
Grab my JPG. 121 121
Oh, we have tons, oh my goodness. 122 122
It's a tiny file, that's awesome. 123 123
And that's important too to have smaller filer sizes, too 124 124
if you're going to take these images 125 125
and repurpose them and send them out 126 126
to your mass email lists as well. 127 127
All right, export all. 128 128
And then I'll just call this one 129 129
graphics example. 130 130
And, as always, I will include all the files 131 131
attached to this lecture including the Photoshop 132 132
file and the image, as well. 133 133
And if you have any additional questions 134 134
please let me know, thanks.