1 1 00:00:00,125 --> 00:00:02,958 (energized music) 2 2 00:00:05,150 --> 00:00:06,730 Let's talk about putting graphics 3 3 00:00:06,730 --> 00:00:09,170 or emojis on your thumbnail images. 4 4 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:12,270 I found that this strategy works out really, really well. 5 5 00:00:12,270 --> 00:00:15,350 I sometimes use a website called powtoons.com 6 6 00:00:15,350 --> 00:00:16,710 to create videos, as well 7 7 00:00:16,710 --> 00:00:18,073 and my thumbnail images. 8 8 00:00:18,990 --> 00:00:21,420 But let's talk about how I made this one here, 9 9 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:25,063 which is when should you start your company. 10 10 00:00:25,063 --> 00:00:28,250 I like to get my images from 11 11 00:00:28,250 --> 00:00:29,940 this service here I mentioned before 12 12 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:31,413 called Storyblocks. 13 13 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:34,490 I think it was a rocket on the image. 14 14 00:00:34,490 --> 00:00:35,691 Let me search for rocket. 15 15 00:00:35,691 --> 00:00:37,440 These are ones I've used in the past. 16 16 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,120 I love the rocket analogy. 17 17 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,970 I put this in one of my course thumbnails as well. 18 18 00:00:41,970 --> 00:00:43,330 Oh, here it is here, okay. 19 19 00:00:43,330 --> 00:00:45,750 So, I'll download this. 20 20 00:00:45,750 --> 00:00:49,533 And we'll make this thumbnail, we'll recreate it. 21 21 00:00:50,570 --> 00:00:52,990 All right, so I'll copy this. 22 22 00:00:52,990 --> 00:00:54,810 And we'll go over here to Photoshop 23 23 00:00:54,810 --> 00:00:57,060 and we'll select new. 24 24 00:00:57,060 --> 00:00:59,290 And, like always, we're going to use the same dimensions. 25 25 00:00:59,290 --> 00:01:02,520 1280 by 720, okay. 26 26 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,730 That's YouTube format, 1280 by 720. 27 27 00:01:06,730 --> 00:01:09,800 And I like the resolution to be a little bit higher. 28 28 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,310 Create. 29 29 00:01:11,310 --> 00:01:12,680 And I'm going to paste 30 30 00:01:13,770 --> 00:01:15,400 and let me just select 31 31 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,790 control or command t. 32 32 00:01:16,790 --> 00:01:20,830 I'll zoom out and I will throw this image on there. 33 33 00:01:20,830 --> 00:01:21,663 There we go. 34 34 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:24,743 Yeah. This works out great. 35 35 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:28,970 These images usually get a lot of clicks. 36 36 00:01:28,970 --> 00:01:29,803 Okay. 37 37 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,950 And I want that to be about halfway there. 38 38 00:01:33,950 --> 00:01:36,850 See the halfway mark was automatically highlighted for me. 39 39 00:01:38,820 --> 00:01:40,580 That looks about right there. 40 40 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:42,430 And then what I'll do is, 41 41 00:01:42,430 --> 00:01:43,963 I'll name this here rocket. 42 42 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:49,470 And there's a reason why we haven't added text yet. 43 43 00:01:49,470 --> 00:01:52,200 I want to basically make the background green 44 44 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,030 or the same color all the way around here. 45 45 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:57,030 So, what I can do here is 46 46 00:01:57,030 --> 00:01:59,420 I can actually change the color of the background. 47 47 00:01:59,420 --> 00:02:01,223 So, let me just teardrop that. 48 48 00:02:02,740 --> 00:02:04,220 And then I'll actually paint that. 49 49 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:07,150 So, I'll select the paintbrush here 50 50 00:02:07,150 --> 00:02:09,570 and I'll just do one quick little paint stroke. 51 51 00:02:09,570 --> 00:02:10,630 Good, we're done. 52 52 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:11,960 Okay, nice. 53 53 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,040 And I'm actually going to drag this image over slightly. 54 54 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,410 Okay. 55 55 00:02:17,410 --> 00:02:19,273 Make it slightly bigger too. 56 56 00:02:21,370 --> 00:02:23,350 And I actually made a mistake on this one, too 57 57 00:02:23,350 --> 00:02:25,839 because, well sort of mistake. 58 58 00:02:25,839 --> 00:02:29,180 What I usaully say is try not to have any writing 59 59 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:31,110 here underneath where the time count is 60 60 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:32,200 and I had the episode number there. 61 61 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,840 I'll just skip the episode number for now. 62 62 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,520 But try not to put any text there. 63 63 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,820 I made a mistake there. 64 64 00:02:36,820 --> 00:02:37,653 oKAY. 65 65 00:02:37,653 --> 00:02:40,203 So, when should you start your company. 66 66 00:02:41,180 --> 00:02:43,500 So, we've talked about adding text before, 67 67 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,050 so I'll do this pretty quickly. 68 68 00:02:46,330 --> 00:02:47,760 All caps is always. 69 69 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:48,840 And let's just go over here 70 70 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,163 and change the spacing between the lines. 71 71 00:02:52,470 --> 00:02:55,040 Let me select the biggest number we can. 72 72 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,310 It's a little bit too much, obviously. 73 73 00:02:57,310 --> 00:02:58,380 Make it a bit less. 74 74 00:02:58,380 --> 00:02:59,870 And I want to make the font 75 75 00:02:59,870 --> 00:03:01,670 actually sized a lot bigger. 76 76 00:03:01,670 --> 00:03:03,713 Click on it, control or command t. 77 77 00:03:04,580 --> 00:03:05,843 And then here. 78 78 00:03:07,510 --> 00:03:09,583 And we can play around this as well. 79 79 00:03:09,583 --> 00:03:11,260 I didn't do the best job here 80 80 00:03:11,260 --> 00:03:13,100 of replicating what I did before 81 81 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:16,100 because what I did before was, I had it all like that 82 82 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:17,850 when should you start your company. 83 83 00:03:19,622 --> 00:03:21,833 And let me just actually center it instead. 84 84 00:03:26,950 --> 00:03:28,630 Get it as big as you can 85 85 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:31,940 so it's within balance. 86 86 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:33,213 And then what I want to do is 87 87 00:03:33,213 --> 00:03:34,300 I actually want to change the 88 88 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:35,360 color of this slightly 89 89 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,210 just to kinda match what color I have over here. 90 90 00:03:38,210 --> 00:03:40,023 So, highlight all this, 91 91 00:03:41,690 --> 00:03:45,820 color - make that not too noticeable 92 92 00:03:45,820 --> 00:03:48,370 but I like to be consistent. 93 93 00:03:48,370 --> 00:03:49,800 And then what we can do is 94 94 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,670 let's also go here, double click 95 95 00:03:52,670 --> 00:03:56,880 and let's add a bit of a drop shadow. 96 96 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,250 Slight drop shadow, that's way too much. 97 97 00:04:00,250 --> 00:04:01,083 Whoops. 98 98 00:04:01,083 --> 00:04:03,010 Select your drop shadow square. 99 99 00:04:03,010 --> 00:04:04,833 Opacity a lot less. 100 100 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,870 That's fine. 101 101 00:04:07,870 --> 00:04:09,540 And then what I can do is I can even 102 102 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:11,863 add a very slight stroke. 103 103 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,140 And I like to usually grab colors from over here 104 104 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:17,670 just to be consistent, so let's see what 105 105 00:04:17,670 --> 00:04:21,383 happens if we grab, let's say purple. 106 106 00:04:22,410 --> 00:04:24,783 And then I'll make this really, really thin. 107 107 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,123 See how that looks. 108 108 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:31,830 Looks all right. 109 109 00:04:31,830 --> 00:04:32,663 All right. 110 110 00:04:32,663 --> 00:04:37,523 And then I'm gonna hit control or command d to deselect. 111 111 00:04:39,030 --> 00:04:41,660 Looks decent, looks decent. 112 112 00:04:41,660 --> 00:04:44,110 Let's go back and compare. 113 113 00:04:44,110 --> 00:04:46,270 Little bit different format there, that's fine. 114 114 00:04:46,270 --> 00:04:47,380 That's good enough. 115 115 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:48,920 And then what you do is, 116 116 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,663 as always, you'd export it. 117 117 00:04:51,740 --> 00:04:53,810 So, you go to export as. 118 118 00:04:53,810 --> 00:04:55,313 It's got a standard two megs, 119 119 00:04:57,217 --> 00:04:59,441 So, let's see what the size of the file's gonna be. 120 120 00:04:59,441 --> 00:05:00,340 Grab my JPG. 121 121 00:05:00,340 --> 00:05:02,240 Oh, we have tons, oh my goodness. 122 122 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,000 It's a tiny file, that's awesome. 123 123 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,140 And that's important too to have smaller filer sizes, too 124 124 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,450 if you're going to take these images 125 125 00:05:08,450 --> 00:05:10,720 and repurpose them and send them out 126 126 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,850 to your mass email lists as well. 127 127 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:15,040 All right, export all. 128 128 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,170 And then I'll just call this one 129 129 00:05:19,430 --> 00:05:22,823 graphics example. 130 130 00:05:23,950 --> 00:05:26,998 And, as always, I will include all the files 131 131 00:05:26,998 --> 00:05:29,371 attached to this lecture including the Photoshop 132 132 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:32,010 file and the image, as well. 133 133 00:05:32,010 --> 00:05:33,330 And if you have any additional questions 134 134 00:05:33,330 --> 00:05:34,743 please let me know, thanks.